Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures records, 1930-1990

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Series II: Faculty Correspondence, 1937-1988

Contains personnel information (i.e., retirement benefits and hiring) and information on students receiving masters and doctorates. Some of the folders contain photograph identifications. The folder "Scott-Smith" contains correspondence with more than one person. The list of the names appearing in the file is inaccurate. The actual correspondents in the folder are: Douglas M. Scott, Winifred Scott, Ingo Seidler, Oskar Seidlin, Frederick C. Sell, Alphonse Sesplaukis, Werner Sewald, Joachim H. Seyppel, Charles I. Silin, Ernest J. Simmons, Philip R. Sisson, and Herbert W. Smith. "Wijk, Axel" file also contains correspondence regarding Gunnar Granberg. The folders are arranged alphabetically by name of the faculty member.



Box 1 Folder 31 Castleman, Alan S., 1971-1977

Restricted until 2053


Box 1 Folder 32 Cook, William K., 1972-1978

Restricted until 2054


Box 1 Folder 33 Colby, Thomas, 1947-1959

Restricted until 2035


Box 1 Folder 34 Coleman, Arthur P., 1937-1946


Box 1 Folder 35 Cramer, Karin, 1972-1974

Restricted until 2050


Box 1 Folder 36 Donahue, Neil Hamilton, 1986-1987

Restricted until 2063


Box 1 Folder 37 Evans, Austin P., 1943-1955

Restricted until 2031


Box 1 Folder 38 Fairley, Barker, 1947-1952

Restricted until 2028


Box 1 Folder 39 Fichtner, Edward G., 1963-1967

Restricted until 2043


Box 1 Folder 40 Fife, Robert Herndon and Hildegard Weichert, 1945-1958

Restricted until 2034


Box 1 Folder 41 Flaxman, Seymour, 1945-1978

Restricted until 2054


Box 1 Folder 42 Frauenfelder, William, 1938-1954

Restricted until 2030


Box 1 Folder 43 Freeman, Thomas P., 1970-1978

Restricted until 2054


Box 1 Folder 44 Friis, Erik, 1955-1964

Restricted until 2040


Box 1 Folder 45 Frisch, Max, 1970-1971

Restricted until 2047


Box 1 Folder 46 Galatin, Beatrice, 1967-1969

Restricted until 2045


Box 1 Folder 47 Gollub, Christian-Albrecht, 1979-1987

Restricted until 2063


Box 1 Folder 48 Goodell, Robert C., 1937-1962

Restricted until 2038


Box 1 Folder 49 Hall, Marie, 1954-1957

Restricted until 2033


Box 1 Folder 50 Hemminghaus, Edgar H., 1946-1974

Restricted until 2050


Box 1 Folder 51 Heuser, Frederick W.J., 1937-1963

Restricted until 2039


Box 1 Folder 52 Hicks, Robert J., 1939-1945


Box 1 Folder 53 Hiebel, Frederick, 1946-1948


Box 1 Folder 54 Hoffman, Ernst F., 1963-1966

Restricted until 2042


Box 1 Folder 55 Hughes, William Nolin, 1960

Restricted until 2036


Box 1 Folder 56 Hunningher, Benjamin, 1947-1964

Restricted until 2040


Box 1 Folder 57 Ingenhuett, A.H., 1938-1946

Restricted until 2055


Box 1 Folder 58 Jackson, William T.H., 1950-1979

Restricted until 2055


Box 1 Folder 59 Jacobs, Neil G., 1979

Restricted until 2038


Box 1 Folder 60 Jones, George Fenwick, 1946-1962

Restricted until 2055


Box 1 Folder 61 Kahn, Ludwig W., 1947-1979



Box 2 Folder 1 Kaplowitt, Stephen J., 1958-1960

Restricted until 2036


Box 2 Folder 2 Kuhn, Hugo, 1961-1962

Restricted until 2038


Box 2 Folder 3 Kuntsmann, John G, 1946-1961

Restricted until 2037


Box 2 Folder 4 Lange, Victor, 1944-1977

Restricted until 2053


Box 2 Folder 5 Loomis, C. Grant, 1947-1959

Restricted until 2035


Box 2 Folder 6 Manning, Clarence A., 1937-1946


Box 2 Folder 7 Martini, Fritz, 1956-1962

Restricted until 2038


Box 2 Folder 8 Mathieu, Gustave, 1950-1962

Restricted until 2038


Box 2 Folder 9 Mayer, Hans, 1968-1969

Restricted until 2045


Box 2 Folder 10 Mayer, Joyce M. Mayeda, 1965-1973

Restricted until 2049


Box 2 Folder 11 Menges, Karl H., 1941-1946


Box 2 Folder 12 Mogilat, Elena T., 1939-1946


Box 2 Folder 13 Muller, Siegfried H., 1940-1962

Restricted until 2038


Box 2 Folder 14 Muschg, Walter, 1946


Box 2 Folder 15 Mustard, Helen M., 1936-1939


Box 2 Folder 16 Ohrborn, Carl-Erik, 1968

Restricted until 2044


Box 2 Folder 17 Oswald, Victor A., Jr., 1937-1957

Restricted until 2033


Box 2 Folder 18 Passage, Charles E., 1950-1953

Restricted until 2029


Box 2 Folder 19 Phelps, Reginald H., 1947-1948


Box 2 Folder 20 Phillipson, Ernst, Alfred, 1944-1968

Restricted until 2044


Box 2 Folder 21 Prandi, Julie Diane, 1980-1984

Restricted until 2060


Box 2 Folder 22 Puckett, Hugh W., 1943-1953

Restricted until 2029


Box 2 Folder 23 Puhan, Alfred, 1939-1948


Box 2 Folder 24 Rehm, Walter, 1946-1952

Restricted until 2028


Box 2 Folder 25 Reinhardt, George W., 1955-1988

Restricted until 2064


Box 2 Folder 26 Schach, Paul, 1951-1963

Restricted until 2039


Box 2 Folder 27 Schluroff, Helmut, 1964-1965

Restricted until 2041


Box 2 Folder 28 Schröter, Klaus, 1967-1972

Restricted until 2048


Box 2 Folder 29 Schulz, James A., 1976-1981

Restricted until 2057


Box 2 Folder 30 Schumann, Detlev W., 1947-1960

Restricted until 2036


Box 2 Folder 31 Scott, Joseph L., 1970-1972

Restricted until 2048


Box 2 Folder 32 Scott-Smith, 1940-1956

Restricted until 2032


Box 2 Folder 33 Silz, Walter, 1948-1980

Restricted until 2056


Box 2 Folder 34 Sjöberg, Leif, 1947-1968

Restricted until 2044


Box 2 Folder 35 Smit, Jacob W., 1965-1971

Restricted until 2047


Box 2 Folder 36 Sokel, Walter H., 1944-1965

Restricted until 2041


Box 2 Folder 37 Staiger, Emil, 1949-1952

Restricted until 2028


Box 2 Folder 38 Steer, Alfred G., Jr., 1958-1967

Restricted until 2043


Box 2 Folder 39 Stein, Jack M., 1946-1976

Restricted until 2052


Box 2 Folder 40 Steiner, Pauline, 1945-1954

Restricted until 2030


Box 2 Folder 41 Stensland, Per G., 1944-1948


Box 2 Folder 42 Stern, Guy, 1948-1962

Restricted until 2038


Box 2 Folder 43 Stern, Howard, 1978-1982

Restricted until 2058


Box 2 Folder 44 Stiefel, Walter A., 1943-1963

Restricted until 2039


Box 2 Folder 45 Strickland, Leslie, 1973-1980

Restricted until 2056


Box 2 Folder 46 Sue, Wallace, 1959-1964

Restricted until 2040


Box 2 Folder 47 Thornton, Thomas K., 1981-1983

Restricted until 2059


Box 2 Folder 48 Threittler, Elizabeth W., undated

Restricted until 2061


Box 2 Folder 49 Unbegaum, Boris, 1938-1945


Box 2 Folder 50 Vietor, Karl, 1944-1950

Restricted until 2026


Box 2 Folder 51 Von der Thüsen, Joachim, 1971-1975

Restricted until 2051


Box 2 Folder 52 Von Gronicka, Andre, 1937-1969

Restricted until 2045


Box 2 Folder 53 Voss, E. Theodor, 1953-1976

Restricted until 2052


Box 2 Folder 54 Wapenewski, Peter, 1962-1964

Restricted until 2040


Box 2 Folder 55 Weber, Horst, 1963-1966

Restricted until 2042


Box 2 Folder 56 Weigand, Hermann J., 1946-1958

Restricted until 2034


Box 2 Folder 57 White, Andrew, 1965-1967

Restricted until 2043


Box 2 Folder 58 Wijk, Axel, 1947-1951

Restricted until 2027


Box 2 Folder 59 Willoghby, Leonard A., 1952-1956

Restricted until 2032


Box 2 Folder 60 Wohlleben, Achim, 1964-1970

Restricted until 2046


Box 2 Folder 61 Woodmansee, Martha, 1984-1986

Restricted until 2062


Box 2 Folder 62 Wright, Ernest H., 1939-1946


Box 2 Folder 63 Zeydel, Edwin H., 1939-1961

Restricted until 2037


Box 2 Folder 64 Ziolkowski, Theodore J., 1962-1965

Restricted until 2041


Box 2 Folder 65 Zipes, Jack, 1984-1986

Restricted until 2062


Box 2 Folder 66 Zitzelsberger, Otto, 1958-1968

Restricted until 2044