~These pages are currently under construction~
Use your browser’s Find function to search the pages!
Please note: In the majority of bibliographic records, MKI has not used umlauts. Instead, try searching for ae, oe, or ue
These pages contain information on pamphlets, journals and journal articles, book chapters, and more from the Library and Archives of the Max Kade Institute. They also includes additional online resources related to German Americana.
O’Brien, George M. “A Minnesotan at the University of Berlin in the 1870s: The Graduate Studies of Alexander Vander Horck.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 29, 1994 , pp. 91-106.
Abstract: O’Brien’s article draws on information reconstructed from Vander Horck’s letters home to Minnesota and discusses his research and studies in medicine in Berlin. It also briefly describes his expedition to the Arctic and his years in China and the Near East.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Letters/ Minnesota
O’Brien, Kathleen Ann. “The Immigrant in the American Experience.” A booklet accompanying The Immigrant Experience: A Minnesota History Resource Unit. Minnesota Historical Society. Educational Services Division. [St. Paul]: Minnesota Historical Society, 1977. 47 pp., ill.
Abstract: Includes chapters on “The survival of the fittest”; the old immigrants speak out; the melting pot; the conservation of differences
MKI P84-123
Emigration and immigration/ Immigrants/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity/ Minnesota
O’Keefe, Kay. “Das Jahrbuch: The Diary of a Stearns County Pioneer.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 21, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter 2018, pp. 41-46, ill.
Abstract: Story of Frederick Schroeder, who kept a diary of his life growing up in Germany (Heusweiler, Rhineland) and of coming to Stearns County, Minnesota, as an early settler. Includes descriptions of the grasshopper invasions of 1857 and 1877, and the 1862 uprising of the Sioux Indians.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Minnesota — Stearns County/ Schroeder/ Native Americans
O’Neill, Daniel P. “The Development of a German-American Priesthood: The Benedictines and the St. Paul Diocesan Clergy, 1851-1930.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editorMoorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984, pp. 145-55.
Abstract: O’Neill’s paper describes the history of Minnesota Catholicism, focusing on German-Americans and the recruitment of German-American priests. Illustrations, photographs and tables are included.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Religion/ Catholics
O’Neill, Mary. “Deutsche Sprache und ihre Sprecher in Baltimore, Maryland.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 3-9.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in Baltimore, Maryland.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)
O’Sullivan, Bryna. “Theodore Hingtgen, Luxembourg American Photographer on the Prairie.” Luxembourg American Gazette, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2014, pp. 7, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Born in 1848 in Oberanven, Luxembourg, Theodore Hingtgen immigrated with his parents in 1862. In the early 1870s he resided in Cascade, Iowa, but settled with his wife and daughters in Wahpeton, Dakota Territory around 1880. He photographed both formal portraits and occasions as well as candid shots which remain in both museum and private possession.
MKI Periodicals
Luxembourg Americans — North Dakota
Obernberger, Alfred. “The Dialect of the Hutterites in Canada.” In Papers from the Conference on German-Americana in the Eastern United States. Steven M. Benjamin, ed. 1980, pp. 124-130. Abstract: About the similarity of the Hutterite dialect to the Bavarian dialect.
MKI P85-83
Immigrants, German/ Canada/ Hutterites/ Dialects
Ochs, Johann Rudolf. “America Guide by Johann Rudolf Ochs.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 48, no. 2, June 2012, pp. i-vi, 1-121, ill.
Notes: Translated, annotated, and supplemented with bio-bibliographical notes, illustrations, and selected documents by Andreas Mielke and Sandra Yelton.
Abstract: Special issue examines Johann Rudolf Ochs (1673-1749) and his interest in establishing a Swiss colony in America. Includes an “Ochs Chronology,” the Ochs family tree, Ochs and his social network, translations of letters to Ochs and other contemporaneous letters on the topic of such emigration, a translation of Ochs’s 1711 Americanischer Wegweiser (America Guide, or Short and essential Description of the English provinces in North America, but in particular its land Carolina), Ochs’s subsequent life in Georgian England, and an extensive bibliography.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ United States in literature/ 18th century/ North Carolina — Description and travel/ Ochs, Johann Rudolf, 1673-1749/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Palatines/ Travel in literature/ Guides
Ochs, W. B. Christi Kreuzesopfer und die Messe; “Was duenkt euch um Christus?” Brookfield, Ill.: Pacific Press, n.d.
Notes: Religion; Hand-bound into a book with Boettcher, J. L. Ist der Mensch unsterblich?
MKI P88-17
PIA/ Theological
Odavic, Ivana. Die Auswirkungen des Ersten Weltkriegs auf die Deutsch-Amerikaner in Wisconsin im Spiegel des Germania-Herold (1914-1920). Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, 2007. 109 pp.
Notes: Wissenschaftliche Pruefungsarbeit fuer die Erste Staatspruefung fuer das Lehramt an Gymnasien vorgelegt dem: Fachbereich 07, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Historisches Seminar (Abteilung I) der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz. 1. Gutachter: HD Dr. habil. Helmut Schmahl. 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Walter G. Roedel.
Abstract: “Die vorliegende Arbeit ist in vier chronologisch geordnete Abschnitte unterteilt. Um die Aenderung der Lebensumstaende der Deutsch-Amerikaner, die den Alltag dieser Gruppe in der Kriegszeit bestimmte, besser zu verstehen, scheint es wichtig, zunaechst den Ursprung dieser Einwanderungsgruppe im Staat Wisconsin zu erlaeutern, Im zweiten Kapitel wird deshalb die deutsche Einwanderung nach Wisconsin im Zeitraum von etwa 1850 bis 1910 umrissen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch auf die kulturellen Einfluesse der Deutschgeborenen, vor allem der eingewanderten Gruppe der Achtundvierziger, auf die zukuenftige Entfaltung dieses Staates und seiner Stadt Milwaukee naeher eingegangen. . . . Das dritte Kapitel, das sich ueber die Jahre 1914 bis April 1917 erstreckt, thematisiert die Reaktion der Deutsch-Amerikaner auf ausschlaggebende Ereignisse der europaeischen Geschichte in der Zeit der ‘Neutralitaetsphase’ Amerikas. Dabei werden punktuelle Geschehnisse, wie der Kriegsausbruch in Europa, die Versenkung der Lusitania, die Praesidentschaftswahl von 1916 und das Zimmermann-Telegramm, hervorgehoben und ihre Darstellung im Germania-Herold, im Hinblick auf ihre Auswirkungen auf die Deutsch-Amerikaner, analysiert. . . . Im vierten Kapitel wird die Situation der Deutsch-Amerikaner waehrend des Kriegs 1917/1918 verdeutlicht. Dabei geht es um die Darstellung seiner Auswirkungen auf die deutsch-amerikanische Gemeinschaft nach dem Kriegseintritt der USA. . . . Der Ausbruch des extremen amerikanischenPatriotismus wurde sowohl staatlich als auch privat organisiert und richtete sich hauptsaechlich auf Amerikaner deutscher Herkunft und ihre Kultur. . . . Danach stehen die Folgen des ‘Superpatriotismus’ und des ‘Furor Americanus’ auf die deutsch-amerikanische Gemeinschaft, auf ihre Kultur und insbesondere auf die deutschsprachige Presse im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. Die zweite Haelfte des Hauptteils spiegelt somit die deutsch-amerikanischen Lebensverhaeltnisse in den Kriegsjahren 1917/1918 wider und vergleicht zudem die Aenderungen zu den vorhergehenden Jahren. Mit Hilfe der Ergebnisse wird im fuenften Kapitel ein Ausblick fuer die Zeit unmittelbar nach Kriegsende versucht. Fuer diese Zeit, also nach dem Waffenstillstand vom 11. November 1918, wurden fuer die Deutsch-Amerikaner andere Gesetze des Handelns und Verhaltens eingefuehrt. Die Reorganisation der deutsch-amerikanischen Gemeinschaft begann im Jahr 1919 und verdient deshalb eine separate Studie, weil sie einen neuen Abschnitt im Leben der Amerikaner deutscher Herkunft einleitete.”
MKI P2007-28
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Newspapers, German-American/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Forty-eighters/ Anti-German sentiment
Odom, Prebecca Preiss. “Shifting Loyalties: Military Service, German-American Identity, and Photography in the First World War.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 49, 2014, pp. 31-51; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Uses photographs taken by two German-Americans from St. Charles, Missouri during their military service in World War I to compare perspectives on people of German heritage in the United States.
MKI Periodicals
Osiek, Emil/ Hoehn, John Philip/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ German Americans — Missouri — History — Pictorial works
Oeltjen, Gerd. “The Diary of Gerd Oeltjen, German Visitor to Texas 1894-1895, Submitted by Minni Backhaus Schlortt.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 29, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 294-301.
Abstract: “Gerd Oeltjen was the uncle of Minnie Backhaus Schlortt of Knippa. He married her father’s sister, Helena Backhaus. Many of Oeltjen’s relatives and schoolmates had emigrated from Germany to the United States and Texas. So in the last year before his death, Oeltjen undertook an American journey. He first traveled from his home at Jaderberg to Hamburg, where he acquired some knowledge of English before starting his journey. He went to Britain, then to New York, traveling from there to Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, and eventually to the West Coast. In February, 1895, he made his way to Texas, staying there until his return to Europe in April.”
MKI Periodicals
Diaries/ Travel/ Texas/ Personal narratives
Oestreicher, Richard J. “Industrialization, Class, and Competing Cultural Systems: Detroit Workers, 1875-1900.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 52-69, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references; donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
MKI/SHS HD8081 G4 G47 1983
Employment/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century/ Detroit (Mich.)/ Socialism
Ohlmann, Eric Henry. “The American Baptist Mission to German-Americans: A Case Study of Attempted Assimilation. Dissertation.” Graduate Theological Union, 1973. 270 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat.
Abstract: This is a case study of Anglo-American Protestant efforts to win and assimilate foreign-speaking people, and the particular case selected for investigation is the American Baptist mission to German-Americans. Several factors have contributed to the investigator’s interest in this subject. Prominent among these is the fact that he has been a member in churches belonging to both the Baptist fellowships focused upon in this case study and thus developed an interest in their past, present, and possible future relationships. A preliminary perusal of some of the relevant primary sources further revealed that the past relationship of these two bodies involved the problem of Americanization and the many fascinating issues related to it. In addition, it was discovered that the case study unwittingly selected was actually excellent for an analysis of Anglo-American home missions to foreign-speaking people because the American Baptist Home Mission Society was engaged in the largest ministry of this kind in the country and, like the Methodists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians, conducted its largest mission among German-Americans. These considerations combined with the importance of such an investigation for the history of American Christianity (see the introduction) finalized the decision to proceed with this subject.
MKI dissertations
Assimilation/ Religion
Olesko, Kathryn M. “German Models, American Ways: The ‘New Movement’ among American Physics Teachers, 1905-1909.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 129-153.
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Science/ Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 20th century
Olesko, Kathryn M. “German Science Seminars and Teacher Training in America: The Ideological Redefinition of Knowledge before World War I.” [1990] [31] pp.
Notes: Paper from a conference: German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917, Madison, Wisconsin, Sep. 12-15, 1990. See also the book of the same title: MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995.
MKI P2007-30
Science/ Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 20th century
Olneck, Michael R. “What Have Immigrants Wanted from American Schools? What do They Want Now? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigrants, Language, and American Schooling.” American Journal of Education, vol. 115, no. 3, May 2009, pp. 379-406.
Abstract: Argues there has been a continuity between what immigrants historically have sought from American schools and what contemporary immigrants seek. In neither case have immigrants sought to utilize the schools to “reproduce” or to “preserve” cultures separate from the American mainstream. Rather, immigrants have consistently sought to utilize American schooling for purposes of incorporation into a system of American ethnic groups that exhibit aspects of acculturation and retention. Examines the fate of homeland languages [including German] in public schools during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of the role of parochial schooling in the first third of the twentieth century; of the resistance of Mexican Americans of Crystal City, Texas, to “schooled ethnicity” during the 1970s and 1980s; of the attitudes of contemporary immigrants toward bilingual education; and, finally, of patterns of supplementary schooling among the children of immigrants.
MKI P2018-11
Immigrants/ Language/ Schools/ Education/ Language loss/ Assimilation
Olson, Esther Marie. “The German Theater in Chicago.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 33, 1937, pp. 68-123.
MKI Periodicals
Theater & Drama
Olson, Frederick I. “Theodore Mueller: An Eulogy.” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, vol. 24, no. 3, 1968, pp. 66-69, ill.
Abstract: Theodore Mueller war curator of Milwaukee County Historical Society. He was born in Bremen, Germany. Mueller, Theodore, 1889-1968
MKI P84-81 / SHS F 587 .M6 H5/24
Biographies/ Milwaukee (Wis.)
Orr, Charles E. Eine religioese Kontroverse und Zwiegelspraech. Anderson, Ind.: Gospel Trumpet, n.d. 110 pp.
Notes: Religion
MKI P88-44
PIA/ Commentaries/ Theological
Orth, Geoffrey C. “The Great War, Literary Tastes, and Political Correctness: The Strange Case of Charles Follen Adams, German Dialect Poet.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 167-180.
Abstract: Charles Follen Adams (1842-1918) was a Yankee of New England ancestry who, while “not at all proficient in German, neither standard nor dialect,” wrote a form of dialect caricature poetry that portrayed German cultural influence in America in both a humorous and positive light.
MKI Periodicals
Dialects/ Poetry/ German influence/ Humor & Satire/ Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918
Orth, K. “In den Minen.” In Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens. Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig: Union Deutsche Velagsgesellschaft, 1898, pp. vol. 5: pp. 30-77; vol. 6: pp. 7-68; vol. 7: pp. 7-69; vol. 8: pp. 7-60; vol. 9: pp. 7-61; vol. 10: pp. 7-42.
Notes: Entire books are in pamphlet files.
Abstract: Serialized novel.
MKI P2002-41
America/ United States/ Fiction
Ortlepp, Anke. “‘Aus dem Wiedischen Land’: Emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin.” Wisconsin German Land and Life. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren, eds. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2006, pp. 3-36, ill.
Abstract: “This essay focuses on emigrants from the Westerwald who settled in the Dodge County communities of Reeseville and Lowell, exploring the lives they had led before their emigration. It investigates the living conditions they had left behind, taking into consideration such variables as community structure, economic situation as reflected in landholdings, land use and farming practices, geography and climate, division of labor on farms, and farm architecture. I argue that, given the harsh realities of making a living on a farm in their German homeland, people left the Westerwald mostly for economic reasons and carried with them the hope that they would improve their lot once they had resettled in Wisconsin.”
MKI F590 G3 W573 2006
Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Hesse/ Westphalia/ Wisconsin — Dodge County/ Architecture
Ortlepp, Anke. “The Formation of Regional Identity: The Case of German-American Women in the Midwest.” Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, Volume 2: Forms of Regionalism. Madison, Wis.: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005, pp. 117-131.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Examines the wide range of activities engaged in by German-American women in Milwaukee and Chicago between the years 1850 and 1910, showing that a regional sense of belonging informed these activities and how this sense of belonging shaped ways of female identity formation.
MKI JF197 R438 2005
German Americans — Wisconsin/ German Americans — Illinois/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Ethnic identity/ Women/ Middle West/ Societies, etc.
Ortlepp, Anke. German-American Women’s Clubs: Constructing Women’s Roles and Ethnic Identity. 2007. 14 pp.
Notes: Paper presented as a lecture in Madison, Wisconsin on Oct. 27, 2007.
Abstract: “This paper will explore the connections between gender and ethnicity. It will look at the ways in which women, as members of their own clubs and organizations, actively shaped the production of a collective identity for their ethnic group. And, by analyzing what women actually did and why they did it, it will examine the notions of femininity that were at the heart of Milwaukee German-American’s understanding of their ethnicity.” Discusses four examples of women’s organizational activism in Milwaukee: Ladies auxiliaries of Turner societies, Freethinkers, and political and labor organizations.
MKI P2008-5
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Women/ Societies, etc./ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Ethnic identity
Ortlepp, Anke. “‘Give to the Poor! Yourself You’ll Bless!’ Jewish Charities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1850-1914.” German-Jewish Identities in America. Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2003, pp. 21-39.
Abstract: Explores how the history of the organizations that united to form the Federated Jewish Charities, “and that of the umbrella group under which they eventually united, reflects the problems and processes of forging a community among Jewish Milwaukee’s disparate ethnic and social groups.”
MKI/MEM E184 J5 G37 2003
Jews, German/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ethnic groups — German-speaking/ Ethnic identity/ Communities/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Societies, etc.
Ostendorf, Berndt. “The Americanization-of-Germany debate: An archaeology of tacit background assumptions.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 267-284.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
20th century/ United States/ Germany/ Social life and customs/ Social influence/ Cultural influence
Oster, Harry. “German Jews in America.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 14-15.
Notes: “Taken from the book German-American Life, Recipes and Traditions, ed. by John D. Zug and Karin Gottier.”
MKI Periodicals
Jews, German
Ostoyich, Kevin. The German Society of Pennsylvania: A Guide to Its Book and Manuscript Collections. Reference Guide, No. 20. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2006. 130 pp.
Notes: German Historical Institute Reference Guides; donated by Prof. Frank Trommler, 2008.
Abstract: “The library currently consists of six collections: The Main Collection, the German American Collection, the Manuscripts Collection, the Newspaper Collection, the Carl Schurz Pamphlet Collection, and the Carl Schurz Periodicals Collection. . . . The Main Collection is a model of nineteenth-century German Bildung. . . . A reading of the catalog reveals that all of the traditional arts and sciences are covered. . . . [T]he holdings reflect more the interests of the common man than of the scholar. Although scholarly titles are well represented, titles in such non-scholarly genres as popular novels, cookbooks, travel literature, biographies, devotional literature, and children’s books abound. Thus, the library serves as a window to German-American culture during the nineteenth century. . . . The German American Collection was founded in 1867 by Oswald Seidensticker (1825-1894). . . . Seidensticker’s goal was ‘to publish the first bibliography of German printing in America. . . [which he published in] 1893 under the title The First Century of German Printing in America, 1728-1830.’ As a result of Seidensticker’s efforts, the German American Collection is a mine of German-American printing (containing books from the press of the celebrated Sauer family, as well as Benjamin Franklin. . . . In addition to books, he gathered journals, magazines, and newspapers. . . . The Pamphlet Collection consists of thousands of entries on all types of German-American associational life (mostly within the Philadelphia area).” The Manuscripts Collection contains materials pertaining to the German Society of Pennsylvania, dating from the society’s founding (1764) through the twentieth century, as well as other manuscripts related to German-American life and culture. The Carl Schurz collections of pamphlets and periodicals came to the German Society after the dissolution of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation (organized in 1930).
MKI P2008-14
United States/ Archives/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ German Americans — Research — Directories/ German Society of Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ German-American press/ 16th century/ 17th century/ 18th century/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Bibliographies
Otterstrom, Th. “Bernhard Ziehn’s Essays on Musical Theory and History.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 27, 1927, pp. 87-90.
Abstract: Ziehn’s ability as a music critic is discussed and the quality and relevance of his writings.
MKI Periodicals
Music/ Literary criticism/ German Americans
Otterstrom, Th. “Personal Recollections of Bernhard Ziehn.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 26, 1926, pp. 17-25.
Abstract: The author reminisces about his own interactions and relationship with his friend, the German-American musician Bernhard Ziehn.
MKI Periodicals
Music/ German Americans/ Personal narratives
Ottnad, Bernd. “Die kulturellen Beziehungen.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen, 1976, pp. 103-107.
Abstract: Verschiedene Werke, die den kulturellen Austausch zwischen Amerika und Deutschland belegen.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Relations, Germany-US/ Cultural exchange
Ottnad, Bernd. “Die politischen Beziehungen.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen. 1976, pp. 99-102.
Abstract: Die politischen Beziehungen zwischen Nordamerika und Baden-Wuertemberg werden hier als geschichtliches Kontinuum, nicht als tatsaechliche Beziehungen begriffen.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Relations, Germany-US/ Politics
Ottnad, Bernd. “Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen. 1976, pp. 108-113.
Abstract: Ueber die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Baden-Wuerttemberg und den USA seit dem Spanienhandel im 14ten Jahrhundert.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Relations, Germany-US/ Economic Aspects
Owen, A. R. “Um’s Jahre 1819 und 1829. Aus der Selbst-Biographie von A.R. Owen.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 2, 1902, pp. 41-43.
Abstract: With notes by an editor: “A.R. Owen, der sich im Jahre 1833 in Grundy County niederliess, hatte schon in dem Jahre 1819 Illinois einen Besuch abgestattet, und kam 1829 dauernd dahin.
In der von ihm hinterlassenen Selbstbiographie erzaehlt er ueber seine Reise dorthin im erstgenannten Jahre…”
Spaeter berichtet er ueber seine Rueckkehr nach Illinois…
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Personal narratives/ Autobiography/ America in German literature
Owen, Ralph Dornfeld. “The Old Lutherans Come.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Apr. 1947, pp. 3-56.
Notes: Reprint; donated by Juergen Eichhoff; information on the Wisconsin Synod, p. 40.
Abstract: Information on European background, the “struggle in the Province of Saxony,” the migration 1843, and “Americanization.”
MKI P2001-30
Lutherans/ German Americans
Ozun, Barbara. “Leaving the Alps for the Plains: A Brief Narrative of a Swiss Family’s Migration to Texas.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 49, no. 1, Feb. 2013, pp. 57-65, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: The author’s family emigrated from Basel, Switzerland, to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1979.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — Texas/ Switzerland/ 20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)
Pabisch, Peter. “The Mystery of the Austrian-American Writer Charles Sealsfeld.” German Life, February/March 2015, pp. 47-49.
Notes: Available by subscription, see website for full information.
Abstract: Although much of his life is unknown, Karl Postl/Charles Sealsfeld, was a well -respected German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Biography/ Literature, German-American
Pafford, Michelle E. “‘Our neighbors in black’: Understanding the secluded life of the Amish, and what their increasing numbers mean for Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Ideas, vol. 13, no. 6, 1997, pp. 8.
Abstract: The Kickapoo River Valley, is home to the fourth-largest, and growing, Amish community in the United States. Professor Harvey Jacobs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has spent years studying the Amish in Wisconsin and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He has tried to foster greater public understanding and appreciation of the Amish culture. The Amish are now moving to Wisconsin from eastern states that are experiencing urban sprawl. They find Wisconsin a favorable place to re-settle.
MKI P97-43
Amish/ Wisconsin
Page, B. Richard, and Joshua R. Brown. “The Big Valley Oral History Project: Language Attitudes toward Pennsylvania German in Big Valley.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 131-145.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “Researchers at Penn State University in collaboration with the Mifflin County Mennonite Historical Society are collecting oral histories from members of the Anabaptist community in Kishacoquillas Valley, located in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. . . . Our project encompasses a full range of Anabaptist sects within their local, geographical context in Mifflin County. Our interview questions. . .focus primarily on language use and cultural practices in an attempt to uncover attitudes about ethnic and religious identity and language. . . . In this essay, we report on the language attitudes we have encountered thus far in approximately 21 oral history interviews.”
MKI Periodicals
Amish/ Mennonites/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Germans/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Sociolinguistics
Page, H. Dwight. “The Swiss American Presence at the Battle of Shiloh.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 46, no. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 40-57, ill.
Abstract: Mentions Swiss Americans in the last three pages of the article, including Confederate Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer (who fell at the Battle of Mill Springs), Union Brigadier General John Eugene Smith who was born in Berne in 1816, and Union Colonel Jacob Ammen, of Swiss descent.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ 19th century
Page, H. Dwight. “The Tercentenary of New Bern.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 46, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 36-104, ill.
Abstract: 2010 marks the tercentenary of the City of New Bern, North Carolina. This article examines the history of the Swiss and Palatine settlement from its establishment in 1710 by Baron de Graffenried, continuity of the colony after the Tuscarora Indian War, and how New Bern and its inhabitants have influenced town planning, social and religious life, and architecture and the decorative arts throughout the state.
MKI Periodicals
New Bern (N.C)/ Swiss Americans/ Settlements/ Immigrants, German/ Immigrants, Swiss/ United States — History/ North Carolina/ Graffenried, Christopher de, 1661-1743
Pajeken, Friedrich J. “Von Indianern verfolgt. Ein Abenteuer in den Rocky Mountains.” Das Evangelische Magazin, vol. 22, no. 8, Aug. 1890, pp. 455-462.
Notes: Bound issues of Das Evangelische Magazin. Verlegt von Lauer und Mattill, Cleveland, Ohio. Redigirt von C. A. Thomas und R. Matt. —- Friedrich Joachim Pajeken (born 1855 in Bremen; died 1920 in Hamburg) spent two years on “Hollers Ranch” in the Bighorn Mountains and wrote several stories based in the American West.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Native Americans
Palmer, Michael P. German and American Sources for German Emigration to America.
Notes: Genealogy.net (http:www.genealogienetz.de/misc/emig/emigrati.html).
Abstract: Pages from a Web site provide bibliographic and other information on resources, including: German records: 18th century; German records: 19th century; American records: 18th and 19th centuries; and ship passenger lists.
MKI P2002-72
Genealogy/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ships/ Archives/ Germany/ America
Palmer, Philip Motley. “German Works on America 1492-1800.” University of California Publications in Modern Philology, vol. 36, no. 10, 1952, pp. 271-412.
Notes: Volume entitled “In Honorem Lawrence Marsden Price: Contributions by His Colleagues and by His Former Students.”
Abstract: 1900 items with locations in American and European libraries. Study of the influence of the New World on the German vocabulary and impact of the discovery of America and the subsequent explorations in the New World on the large and vital area of Europe populated by German-speaking peoples.
MKI P86-122 / MEM PB 13 .C3/36/10
America in German literature/ Bibliographies/ America/ Discovery & exploration
Palmer, Virginia A. Ethnic sites in Milwaukee County. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Extension, Department of History, 1981. 23 pp.
Notes: Photocopy.
Abstract: Sites are grouped geographically to make the list useful for those who are interested in self-guided tours of ethnic sites. Certain sites provide guided tours and this information has been noted… Restaurant and import shops have not been included in this listing but are also an important ethnic resource.
MKI P2000-28/SHS 80-3104
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Ethnic groups — General
Pandey, Christa. “Colonizing Texas.” Cobblestone, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 13-15, ill.
Notes: German Americans issue; intended for readers ages 9-14.
MKI P2003-5
German Americans — Texas
Pardoe, Elizabeth Lewis. “‘Little Books’ and ‘The Book’: Kinderlehre in 18th Century Pennsylvania.” The ABCs of German American Education in Pennsylvania Prior to the Public School Movement of 1834: A Symposium, 25 pp.
Notes: June 30, 2007 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA.
MKI P2007-47
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Education/ 18th century/ Pennsylvania Germans.
Parry, Ellwood Comly. “Friedrich Schiller in America. A Contribution to the Literature of the Poet’s Centenary, 1905.” German American Annals, vol. 3, n.s., 1905, pp. 81-96, 113-126, 148-160, 300-321, 327-341, 359-368, 410-420, 547-558.
MKI Periodicals
Parsons, William T. “Palatines, Wuerttembergers and other German-Americans on the Colonial Frontier of Pennsylvania.” In Pfaelzer-Palatines: Beitraege zur pfaelzischen Ein-und Auswanderung sowie zur Volkskunde und Mundartforschung der Pfalz und der Ziellaender pfaelzischer Auswanderer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Karl Scherer, ed. Kaiserleutern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981, pp. 97-120.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Pennsylvania/ Palatines/ Frontier and pioneer life/ Immigrants, German
Parsons, William T. “The South Moravian Choral Group’s 1982 United States Tour.” Pennsylvania Folklife, vol. 32, no. 3, 1983, pp. 115-123.
MKI P88-92
Moravians/ Pennsylvania
Pasche, F. E. [Frederick Emil.] Die Bibel und Astronomie. Beweis, dass keinem einzigen der etwa sechzig Sprüche, in welchen der Erde Stillstand und der Sonne und allen Gestirnen Bewegung zugeschrieben wird, ein dahin lautende Auslegung gegeben werden kann, als wäre doch eigentlich das Umgekehrte der Fall. Milwaukee, Wis.: Druck der Germania Publishing Co., 1906. 410 pp., ill.
Two copies. On title page: Von F. E. Pasche, Pastor in Webster, S. Dak. Zu beziehen vom Verfasser. — One copy has the inscription: “Johannes Köpcke Lieben[schen?]. Geschenk zur Silberhochzeit von Familie Johs. Köpcke.” The other has “Meiner lieben Schwester zum Geburtstage von ihren Bruder Johannes im Jahre 1926.” —- Last two pages are an advertisement: “Von demselben Verfasser erschien 1904: Christliche Weltanschauung. Kosmogonie und Astronomie, oder Entstehung und Beschaffenheit der Welt. 241 Seiten 8° in hübschem Muslinband. Preis: $1. Zu beziehen vom Verfasser: Rev. F. E. Pasche, Webster, S. Dak.” [On one copy, Webster, S. Dak. crossed out both on title page and on advertisement, and Atwater, Minn. written in pencil.] — Vorwort written by “A. F. (August Frederick) Breihan, Ev.-Luth. Pastor, Canistota, South Dakota, den 20. Juli 1906.”
Both copies donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
Click here to view pages from this book.
Passet, Joanne. “Reviews: Six generations here–A farm family remembers [by Marjorie L. McLellan].” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 84, no. 3, Spring 2001, pp. 61.
Notes: Reviewed book is owned by College Library and MKI.
MKI/COLL HQ536.15 W6 M35 1997
Book reviews
Pastor Heyne. “Die Entwicklung der Bremischen Auswandererfuersorge.” Jahrbuch des Norddeutschen Lloyd, 1925, pp. 101-123.
Notes: (Auswandererfürsorge); Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen; photocopy donated by Victor Greene, 2003.
MKI P2003-23
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration
Patrick, Charles. “Book review: Voyage to North America 1844-45 [The Texas diary of Prince Carl of Solms] translated by Wolfram M. Von-Maszewski.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 150.
Notes: Reviewed book is owned by Historical Society: SHS F390 .S69413 2000
MKI Periodicals
19th century/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Diaries
Patrick, Charles E. [Matthaei, Clara (1884-1934)]. The Handbook of Texas Online, 2 pp.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Clara Matthaei, a Texas-born German-American novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Walther Gray and Gertrud Hoff.
MKI P2002-90
Matthaei, Clara (1884-1934)/ German Americans — Texas/ Women authors
Patton, Olive. “Frostberg 1882: German Strikers vs. German Strikebreakers. A Letter by Olive Patton. Lowitt, Richard., ed.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 72-78.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Social conditions/ Letters
Paul, Roland. “Carl David Weber (1814-1881), ein bedeutender Pfaelzer im amerikanischen Westen.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 107-108.
Abstract: Weber was born in Steinwenden, and grew up in Homburg. In 1836 he arrived in New Orleans, although little is known of his time there. In 1841 he went to Belleville, Illinois and joined with the Bidwell Bartleson Party in St. Louis to travel to California. He is the founder of the town of Tuleburg, later known as Stockton, California.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans — California/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Weber, Carl David, 1814-1881
Paul, Roland. “Die juedische Emigration in die USA nach 1933 am Beispiel der Pfalz.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 55-62.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ History/ Jews, German/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ 20th century
Paul, Roland. “‘Ihr kent eich kein bekrif machen wis in Amerika ist…’ Briefe pfaelzischer Auswanderer und ihre Bedeutung fuer die Forschung.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, pp. 49-63.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Palatines/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Letters
Paul, Roland. “Johann Daniel Weber–Ein Pfaelzer im Dienste der Spanischen Krone.” In Pfaelzer-Palatines: Beitraege zur pfaelzischen Ein-und Auswanderung sowie zur Volkskunde und Mundartforschung der Pfalz und der Ziellaender pfaelzischer Auswanderer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Karl Scherer, ed. Kaiserleutern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981, pp. 229-244, ill.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Biographies
Paul, Roland. “Julius Dauber (1831-1879), ein Rueckwanderer.” Aufbruch nach Amerika 1709-2009. 300 Jahre Massenauswanderung aus Rheinland-Pfalz. Marlene Jochem and Jens Stoecker, eds. Kaiserslautern: Theodor-Zink-Museum; Referat Kultur der Stadt Kaiserslautern, 2009, pp. 110-111, ill.
Abstract: Dauber traveled with Carl Adolph Weber in 1853 to Stockton, California. Meeting with little success, he returned home in 1857. This article includes passages from Dauber’s diary.
MKI E 184 P3 A94 2009
German Americans — California/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Diaries
Paul, Roland. “The Newspapers Pfaelzer in Amerika and Hessische Blaetter in World War I.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992. pp. 157-167.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
Newspapers, German-American
Paulsen, Marcia. “Discovering My Paulsen Ancestry.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, Winter 2008, pp. 21-24, ill.
Abstract: “When I began researching my Paulsen family. . . little information was available to me. . . . Basically, all I knew was that my great-grandparents, John and Marie Paulsen, had emigrated from Schleswig-Holstein and settled in Clinton County, Iowa.” Describes how the author identified twelve individuals in a family photograph and conducted research in Schleswig-Holstein.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Schleswig-Holstein/ German Americans — Iowa
Paulson, Robert J. “The Search for Therese Marz: Following the Clues and Facts.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 21, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter 2018, pp. 19-24, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Pomerania/ Pomeranians — Genealogy/ Martz/ Haak
Peck, Jeffrey M. “‘The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!’: Notes for a Comparative Study of Institutions.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors. Monatshefte occasional volumes, 7. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. pp. 271-284.
Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983
MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988
Teaching of German/ United States/ German-American Studies
Peel, John. “Dialect Detective: Linguistic ‘G-Man’ Tracking Down Pennsylvania-Dutch Dialects.” [The Evening Bu?], Aug. 13, 1940, pp. 16F, ill.
Notes: Donated by Suzanne Treichel, 2007.
Abstract: Reports on Carroll Reed’s bicycle trip to interview speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch, “as spoken by the dwellers in the old Tulpehocken District.”
MKI P2007-42
Dialects/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Reed, Carroll/ Language, German (US) — Dialects
Pelak, Linda Hesse. “The General Slocum Disaster: The Titanic of New York City’s German Community.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 5-6, ill.
Abstract: “On June 15, 1904, the members of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, one of the German churches in the Kleindeutschland [Little Germany] area of Manhattan, chartered an excursion ferry, the General Slocum.” A fire aboard the ship resulted in the loss of 1,021 people, seventy-five percent of those onboard.
MKI Periodicals
Ships/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — New York (state)/ History/ United States/ New York (N.Y.)/ General Slocum (Steamboat)
Peltner, Arndt. “Wealth with Wurst: Oscar Mayer Lived the American Dream.” The Atlantic Times, Jan. 2007 (Life. pp. 20, ill.
MKI P2007-2.
Mayer, Oscar/ Business & Industry.
Penner, Nikolai. “Immigrants’ High German Influenced by Russian and English.” German-Canadian Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, Dec. 2009, pp. 3, ill.
Abstract: Penner’s research focuses the High German spoken by the second- and third-wave Russian Mennonite immigrants to Canada, examining patterns of language use by each group in Russia and how they changed in Canada, and looking at how this variety of High German corresponds to standard High German.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Language, German (Canada)/ Language influence/ Russian Germans/ Mennonites
Pentlin, Susan L. “”German Teachers’ Reaction to the Third Reich, 1933-1939″.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. David P. Benseler, Walter F. W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs, Editors Monatshefte occasional volumes, 7. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. pp. 228-252. 320 p Abstract: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Dept. of German and the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held at the University April 1983 MKI PF 3068 .U6 T4 1988 Language, German (US)/ Teaching/ Attitudes/ National Socialism
Pentlin, Susan L. “Review of Wolfgang Helbig, Walter D. Kampfoefner, and Ulrike Sommer, eds. Briefe aus Amerika: Deutsche Auswanderer schreiben aus der neuen Welt, 1830-1930. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1988.” German Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 3, 1990, pp. 517-518.
MKI periodicals
Book reviews
Penzl, Herbert. “A Pennsylvania German ‘Sprachinsel’ near Arthur, Illinois.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 18-19.
Notes: Millersville University. Reprinted from ‘”S Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch Eck,” The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., March 12, 1938.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Pennsylvania/ History/ German Americans — Illinois/ Dialects/ Amish
Penzl, Herbert. “The present status of research in the Pennsylvania German dialect .” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 3, no. 4, 1996, pp. 10-12.
Abstract: The investigation of the Pennsylvania German dialect is in all its important aspects still in its beginning. Everything can still be done, if it is done early enough, before the corruption and destruction has made further progress, before the number of speakers has dwindled down, and further characteristics have been lost. Phonetical recording in the field would provide a basis for studies that are most important from the linguistic point of view.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Pennsylvania/ History/ Dialects
Perrone, Toni. “Migration & Emigration.” German-American Genealogy, Fall 2002, pp. 1-7, ill.
Notes: (Immigrant Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA).
Abstract: German-speaking people migrated to other countries besides the United States, and sometimes lived “for a few months to a few generations in other countries” before immigrating to the U.S. The author examines cases of German-speaking peoples settling in (and sometimes then emigrating from) England and Ireland, the Banat (now Hungary), Russia (Volga, Ukraine, “mother/daughter colonies,” Bessarabia, and Bukovina), Australia, and Brazil.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ Germany, Emigration and immigration/ Russian Germans/ Banat/ Bukovina
Petermann, Gerd Alfred. “Friends of Light (‘Lichtfreunde’): Friedrich Muench, Paul Follenius, and the Rise of German-American Rationalism on the Missouri Frontier.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 119-139.
Abstract: Friedrich Muench, a German-American publicist and politician in Missouri, emerged as one of the leading German-American rationalists in a series of theological and religious controversies which lasted to the pre-Civil War years. In 1833, dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Germany, he and his friend Paul Follenius founded the Giessen Emigration Society. They arrived in the U.S. in 1834 and settled in Missouri. In 1841 Muench wrote an article for the Anzeiger des Westens under the pseudonym “Photophilos” (Friend of Light). The Licht-Freund, a semi-monthly journal first published in Cincinnati and then Missouri, alluded to the “Lichtfreunde” movement in Germany, which was closely watched by German-American rationalists. This article describes the Lichtfreunde movement and details the roles of Muench and Follenius in it.
MKI Periodicals
19th century/ German Americans — Missouri/ Religion/ Politics/ Muench, Friedrich, 1799-1881
Peterson, Brent. “Towards a ‘cultural’ German-American Studies.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 354-360.
Abstract: First, “cultural” German-American Studies would allow the study of literature to become more fully integrated into the field of German-American Studies as a whole. Second, a cultural studies approach would permit a theoretically grounded outreach towards those burgeoning and exciting new fields of inquiry within the American academy that carry the name “studies”; such as ethnic, minority, diaspora, etc. Third, a “cultural” German-American Studies could also engage in useful dialogue with Germanists now working on Gastarbeiterliteratur, German colonial literature, and the literature of Germans in the diaspora of Central Europe. There is a need to recognize and celebrate not only the diversity, but also the dislocations, and the discontinuities that constituted German-American experience in the last three-plus centuries.
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies
Peterson, Brent O. “How (and why) to read German-American literature.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 88-102.
Abstract: Examines the short story, Der vierte Juli: Erzaehlung aus dem deutsch-amerikanischen Volksleben, by J.C.W. Lindemann, which appeared in 1871 in Die Abendschule, a German-American family journal.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
Literature, German-American/ Social influence/ German Americans/ History/ United States/ Immigrants, German
Peterson, Brent O. “Masthead Iconography as Rezeptionsvorgabe: Producing Die Abendschule‘s Family of Readers.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992,. pp. 91-117.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
Periodicals, German-American/ German-American press
Peterson, Brent O. “”The ‘Political’ and the German-American Press.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 41-48.
MKI Periodicals
German-American press
Peterson, Brent O. “Refunctioning history, Raabe bowdlerized, or Unseres Herrgotts Kanzlei as an “Ethnic Myth of Descent.” The German Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 3, 1991, pp. 353-367.
MKI Periodicals
Periodicals, German-American
Peterson, Mark Edwin. “German Readers and the Formation of the Henkel Press in Virginia.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 135-146.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 144-146).
Abstract: During the second half of the 18th century, German speakers established their own communities in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, but the creation of German-language publicattions was left to the established industries in large northern towns. The Lutheran pastor, Adolph Neussmann, wrote in 1793 that “no German-language presses existed between Maryland and Georgia to print Lutheran documents.” Thus, while it was “a very clear effort to protect the religious traditions and language of Lutherans in the South that spurred the Henkel family to create an influential press in New Market, Virginia, the Henkels would produce a wide range of German-language works over the course of the next century, many of them appealing to different groups of German readers.” However, “while the effort to preserve faith and heritage largely succeeded, the program of encouraging German literacy fell away as the community found ways to assimilate as Americans,” and the press would stop printing German-language materials entirely [with its last German imprint reportedly appearing in 1854].
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Virginia/ Newspapers, German-American/ Lutheran Church/ German language/ 18th century/ 19th century
Petig, William E. “Carl and Margarethe Schurz: Their Years in Watertown, Wisconsin.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 29-81, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 72-81).
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Watertown (Wis.)/ Kindergarten/ Schurz, Margaretha Meyer, 1833-1876
Petig, William E. “Margarethe Meyer Schurz: A Problematic Biography.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 43-54; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Conflicting facts about Schurz’s life have been drawn from sources that vary considerably as well, and appear in both biographical as well as history of kindergarten materials.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Margaretha Meyer, 1833-1876/ Biographies
Petig, William E. “The Moravian Star: Its Origin and History.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 167-180; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: The German origin and history of the distinctive 26-point Moravian Advent star (Herrnhuter Stern).
MKI Periodicals
Moravians/ Christmas
Petrie, Stephen L. R. “Nazis among the Cedars: The Inability of the German American Bund to Find Acceptance in Pre-War Milwaukee.” 2015. 26 pp.
Notes: Paper written for History 489 Research Seminar.
Abstract: Tracing its roots back through the Friends of New Germany, the German American Bund was founded in 1936 with the express purpose of fomenting a National Socialistic revolution in the United States. The Bund had chapters formed throughout the United States, including in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they set up Camp Hindenburg, a summer camp for youths located in nearby Grafton. Despite claims of being loyal Americans, the national Bund found itself surrounded by opposition due to public opinion, coordinated attacks, and portrayals in the media.These and other issues lead to the collapse of the Bund with the outbreak of World War II.
See: http://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/72649
National Socialism/ United States/ German-American Bund/ German Americans — Societies, etc/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ 20th century
Pettig, William E. “Carl Schurz and the University of Wisconsin.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 53, 2018, pp. 85-94, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ German Americans/ Wisconsin
Petty, Antje. “‘Dies schrieb Dir zur Erinnerung. . .” From Album Amicorum to Autograph Book.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 1, 3-4, 6, 8, ill.
Abstract: “Some of the beautiful and intriguing items in the Max Kade Institute’s collection are little autograph books and small, decorative boxes containing loose leaf poems and personal dedications. They represent a centuries-old German tradition of Album Amicorum [book of friends], also called Stammbuch or, more recently, Poesiealbum.” See: https://mki.wisc.edu/dies-schrieb-dir-zur-erinnerung-from-album-amicorum-to-autograph-book/
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Writing/ Poetry
Petty, Antje. “German-Speaking Europe to Wisconsin: Stories of Immigration, Told One at a Time.” Perspektiven, vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 1, 4-5.
Notes: Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Abstract: Personal documents such as diaries and letters help provide answers to such questions as: Who exactly were these immigrants? Why did they leave their homeland? What brought them to Wisconsin? How did they settle in this state and adjust to the new surroundings? What was their contribution to this young state?
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Letters / Diaries/ History
Petty, Antje. “Introduction to the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 20, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2002, pp. 36-37.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
MKI Periodicals
German Americana/ Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
Petty, Antje. “Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 20, no. 4, Apr./May/June 2003, pp. 168-170.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Cookbooks/ Davidis, Henriette
Petty, Antje. “Stuck in the Mud: Teacher Th. Finds That the Road Really Does Need Improving!” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 10, 15.
Abstract: Translation of an article that appeared March 2, 1904, in the Sangerhaeuser Zeitung, a paper from the region around Nikolausrieth, where Frederick Pabst was born. The article concerns an application for funding to improve a dirt road between Nikolausrieth and Arten.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Pabst, Frederick, 1836-1904/ Nikolausrieth, Germany
Petty, Antje. “The Wisconsin Natural History Society.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 12-14, ill.
Abstract: “On May 6, 1857, nine years after Wisconsin became a state, a group of Milwaukee citizens got together to found the ‘Naturhistorischer Verein fuer Wisconsin,’ the ‘Wisconsin Natural History Society.'” In 1882 the society’s collections were accepted by the city of Milwaukee and these formed the basis of the Milwaukee Public Museum, established in 1884.
MKI Periodicals
Societies, etc./ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Museums
Pfeifer, Leona Wasinger. “Marriage Traditions of the Ellis County Volga-Germans.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 113-116.
MKI P87-163
Russian Germans/ Social life and customs/ Songs
Pfeiffer, Henry. “Deutsch-Amerikanischer Staats-Verband von Michigan.” In Das Buch der Deutschen in Amerika. Max Heinrici, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Walthers Buchdruckerei, 1909, pp. 833-835.
Abstract: Included in section “Der Deutsch-Amerikanische National-Bund und seine Staats- und Staedte-Verbaende.”
MKI/SHS E 184 .G3 H3 1909
Societies, etc./ National German-American Alliance/ Michigan
Pfister, Guenther G. “Das Deutschstudium aus der Perspektive eines TA-Direktors.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985. pp. 220-235.
Abstract: This article deals with the training and supervision of teaching assistants for beginning German classes.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Education
Pfister, Hans Ulrich. “Swiss Migration to America in the 1730s: A Representative Family–The Pfister Family of Hoeri, Canton Zuerich and the Feaster Family in America.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 39, no. 1, Feb. 2003, pp. 3-22.
Notes: Höri, Zürich.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans/ 18th century/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Switzerland/ Pfister
Pfister, Rudolf. “Fred Heinzelmann aus Liestal. Ein prominenter Fachmann der Stahl-Haertungs-Verfahren, ein wahrer Self-made Man.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 92-93, ill.
Abstract: Heinzelmann came to America in 1909 and started the Precision Hardening Co. of 498 Broome Street, New York. Includes two photographs showing scenes within the hardening works.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Biographies/ Business & Industry/ New York (N.Y.)
Pflaume, Karl. Washington’s Birthday Celebration., Translated and edited by Karyl Rommelfanger. 2 pp.
Abstract: Describes a joint Yankee and German-American celebration on February 22nd, 1852, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
MKI P2003-27
Cultural influence/ Festivals/ Farm life/ German-Americans — Wisconsin
Philipp, Hermann. Corruption in Turner-Kreisen. Holyoke, Mass.: German-American Publishing, [n.d]. 82 pp.
Abstract: The last page is dated 1894.
MKI P89-83
PIA/ Turners
Philippi, B. “‘In Amerika ist alleweil Kiritag.’ Die Auswanderung aus den deutschen Doerfern im Bakonyerwald.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan. 1939, pp. 39-44, ill.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ 20th century/ National Socialism/ Hungary/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)
Picard, Jacob. “Ernst Waldinger at Sixty.” Books Abroad, vol. 31, 1957, pp. 28-29.
Abstract: Waldinger, Ernst, 1896-1970
MKI P93-82
Biographies/ Literary criticism/ Poetry
Pickett, Terry H. “The Bruderkrieg and the crisis of constitutional government: The treatment of the American Civil War by Georg von Cotta’s German war correspondents, 1861-65.” Schatzkammer, vol. 20, no. 1, 1994, pp. 13-25.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865
Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. “Gender and Self-Representation in the Letters of Nineteenth-Century Rural German-Speakers.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 91-114.
Abstract: Examines how gender roles may have influenced the ways in which immigrants represented themselves in letters written to their homeland. In general, men who were successful in their new lives tended to write of their success “in a manner that may seem overbearing to us today,” while women were “sensitive to the ways in which they would be ‘read’ by the recipients of their letters,” and they sought to maintain positive contact with their families in Germany.
MKI Periodicals
Women/ German Americans — Illinois/ 19th century/ History/ Farm life/ Social life and customs/ Rural life & conditions/ Letters/ Ethnic identity
Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. “German and Swiss Nuns in Nineteenth-Century Missouri and Southern Illinois: Some Comparisons with Secular Women.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 61-81.
Abstract: Pickle’s article investigates factors of immigration and assimilation, which might have been specific to German and Swiss nuns in the 19th century.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Women/ Missouri/ Catholics/ Illinois/ Missions/ Politics/ Letters/ Assimilation
Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. “[Review of] Dorothea Diver Stuecher. “Twice removed: the experience of German-American women writers in the 19th century” (New German-American Studies, 1). New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Pp. 230. Cloth $56.95.” German Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 2, May 1992, pp. 390-391.
Notes: MKI owns reviewed book: MKI PT 3907 .S78 1990
Abstract: “Stuecher addresses several largely neglected aspects of German-American literary history of the second half of the nineteenth century: the particular place of women writers among German-American literati, the interplay between immigrant history and literary production, and the impact of the cultural context on the lives and works of nineteenth-century female German-American writers.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Women authors/ German Americans/ 19th century
Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. “Teachable Texts: Integrating German Americana in the Classroom.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 47-50.
Abstract: A three-part teaching unit of nineteenth-century German-American texts having to do with women’s experience of immigration illustrates ways in which such material can be incorporated into the second year. The article also presents ways in which using German- American texts and topics promote language learning across the curriculum.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Teaching
Pieper, August. “Reminiscences From Professor August Pieper.” WELS Historical Institute Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 1983, pp. 49-56.
Notes: Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod; August Otto Wilhelm Pieper.
Abstract: August Pieper, 1857-1946. Author of Biblische Hausandachten
MKI Periodicals
Memoirs
Pierce, Lorraine Esterly. “Christopher Guderian.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2007, p. 17, ill.
Notes: Illustration for this article is on page 15 of the journal.
Abstract: Guderian was born in 1835 in Prussia and came to American in 1853. He served with the 8th Minnesota Volunteers, the 7th Minnesota Volunteers, and the Eighth United States Heavy Artillery during the Civil War.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ German Americans — Minnesota
Pilger, Adolf. Der Geburtstag der Amerikanisch Lutherischen Kirche. Chicago, Ill.: Wartburg, 1930.
Notes: Religion
MKI P94-46
PIA/ Lutheran Church/ History
Pitschmann, Louis A. “German-American archives and library collections: Four areas of concern.” Monatshefte, vol. 86, no. 3, 1994, pp. 383-392.
Abstract: Four major areas of concern in library and archive collections and programs have been identified which must be addressed if future scholars are to have access to primary source material documenting the German-American experience. The most obvious of these is the absence of archival collections documenting the experiences of German-Americans who have arrived since the end of World War II. The second is that post-1830 German-American imprints originally considered to be a popular nature have not been systematically acquired by research libraries. Related to this problem is the third area of concern, the absence of a comprehensive bibliography of German-American imprints published since 1830. Fimally, the fourth and most pressing of the concerns to be discussed in this paper is the current lack of a cooperative program to assure the preservation of German-American materials printend on acid-content paper.
MKI P99-9
German-American Studies/ Archives
Pitzer, Donald E. “Progressive Education in Harmonist New Harmony: 1814-1824.” Contemporary Education, vol. 58, no. 2, 1987, pp. 67-73.
Abstract: This article examines the educational views of George Rapp, the founder of the New Harmony, Indiana, community of religious separatists, and the education of its members. Education was made to serve the communal group and the movement which it represented. It could ensure literacy, supply a rising generation equipped with essential practical skills and provide cultural enrichment in a process of lifelong learning. It also permitted the teaching not only of English, but also the German language and ethnic uniqueness of their native Wuerttemberg. Through education the younger generation and new members could be indoctrinated, values could be substantiated or altered, outside influences could be modified or eliminated, talents of service to the community could be cultivated, and propaganda could be disseminated. In total, education could help prepare the sanctified Harmonist community for its predestined role of leadership during the soon-expected return of Christ.
MKI P87-153
New Harmony (Ind.)/ Harmony Society/ Indiana/ Education/ Rapp, George, 1757-1847/ German Americans — Indiana/ Teaching
Plakans, Andrejs. “Life in the Baltic States Before the Twentieth Century.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 533
Abstract: On Latin, German, Swedish, Danish and Polish sources of Baltic history prior to the triumph of Russian hegemony.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Europe/ Sources/ Genealogy
Plakans, Andrejs. “The People of the Baltic: Sources That Tell the Story of Their Lives.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 522.
Abstract: On different empirical data concerning Eastern Europe.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Europe/ Genealogy
Plantenga, Bart. “Was Pennsylvania the ‘Birthplace’ of American Yodeling? A Reworkeed Excerpt from Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World.” Der Reggeboge, vol. 38, no. 2, Aug. 2004, pp. 3-13.
Notes: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society.
Donated by Dennis Boyer.
Abstract: “How and when yodeling came to the New World is a subject of some speculation. Most conventional wisdom pins the yodel’s transmission from Europe’s Alpine region at no earlier than the 1820s. The fact that this is 200 years after the first European settlers arrived begs the question: Could the yodel have stowed away and arrived much earlier, say, among the first waves of Germanic immigrants in the 1670s? Or did the yodel sneak in with the Scandinavians in the 1660s or with the first African slaves in the 1620s?”
MKI Periodicals
Music/ Immigrants, German/ Immigrants, Swiss/ German Americans — Pennsylvania
Plesske, Hans-Martin. “Vortrag ueber Leben und Werk von Walter Bauer.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 174-182.
Abstract: This 1983 address offers a biographical sketch of Walter Bauer (1904-76) and traces the development of his literary career consisting of 27 fairly successful years in Europe followed by a less-than-rewarding 23 years of writing in Canada.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Literature, German (Canada)
Plumb, Ralph G. “Emil Baensch.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 23, no. 3, Mar. 1940, pp. 264-268, ill.
Emil Baensch was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1857, son of a refugee from Germany who arrived in America in 1848. Emil studied law and was appointed in 1888 by Governor Rusk to serve as county judge in Manitowoc County. Baensch served as a Republican Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1895 through 1899, and ran unsuccessfully for governor against Robert La Follette, Sr. in 1904. He had an interest in German contributions to American life and was involved in “the gathering of reminiscences and the preservation of letters written by the German immigrants to their homeland.”
MKI P2010-4
Baensch, Emil, 1857-1939/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Biographies/ Manitowoc (Wis.)
Pochatko, Beverly. “The History of German Christmas Tree Ornaments: The Symbolism of the Ornaments’ Shapes.” German-American Journal, vol. 53, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 2004, pp. 1, 3.
MKI Periodicals (shelved on PIA bookshelf)
Christmas/ German Americans/ Germany/ Folklore
Poellot, Daniel E. “The Old Church at Addison.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, 1948, pp. 14-26.
Abstract: In DuPage Co., Illinois
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Pohlsander, Hans A. “John A. Wagener, His Life, and His Family.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 37, no. 4, Sept. 2012, pp. 8-14, ill.
Notes: “By Hans A. Pohlsander, Professor Emeritus, University at Albany, State University of New York.”
Abstract: John A. (Johann Andreas) Wagener was one of the relatively few German-born men who fought and held high rank in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. He was born in 1816 in the village of Sievern, near Bremerhaven, in the kingdom of Hanover. In 1831 he emigrated to America, and by 1833 had moved to Charleston, South Carolina, becoming a leader among the German immigrants in this city. During the Civil War he served with distinction in the Confederate army and rose to the rank of brigadier general. He died in 1876.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Hannover (Germany)/ German Americans — South Carolina/ Wagener, John A. (Johann Andreas), 1816-1876
Polack, W. G. William Gustave. Favorite Christian Hymns. Vol. III: Their Origin, Authorship and Contents. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia, [1924]. 64 pp., ill.
Notes: On cover: The Church Year in Song. Favorite Christian Hymns. Volume 3. By Prof. W. G. Polack. — William Gustave Polack was born in Wausau, Wisconsin on Dec. 7, 1890, the oldest son of Herman A. and Wilhelmina Stohs Polack. He studied at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., graduated in 1914, and was ordained into the Lutheran ministry that same year, serving as assistant pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Evansville, Ind. until 1920, when he became the chief pastor. In 1925 he was called to the chair of Historical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where he made many contributions in the field of church history. Professor Polack was a Corresponding Member of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland. He died in 1950. — Donated by Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario.
MKI P2012-11
Hymns — History and criticism
Poore, Carol. “An Alternative Tradition: The Nineteenth Century German-American Socialists.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 131-140.
Abstract: There is a rich tradition of German-American history embodied by socialist immigrants whose political, economic and cultural goals found strong resonance among German immigrant workers. From forty-eighters like Friedrich Sorge, Joseph Weydemeyer, and Adolf Douai, to political emigres fleeing the repression of Bismarck’s Sozialistengesetze, to immigrants radicalized by their disillusionment with America, German socialists constituted by far the most siginficant group of ethnic radicals in the nineteenth-century U.S. Labor historians have recognized the crucial political role German immigrants played in introducing the theory of scientific socialism to the U.S. and helping to organize the American labor movement after the Civil War. Douai, Adolf, 1819-1888
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Socialism/ History/ Immigrants, German/ 19th century/ German Americans/ Political activity/ Refugees, political (US)/ Forty-eighters
Poore, Carol. “Book review: Agnes Bretting and Hartmut Bickelmann. Auswanderungsagenturen und Auswanderungsvereine im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1991.” German Studies Review, vol. XVI, no. 1, 1993, pp. 107-108.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Poppen, S. Die Passion unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi. 2. Aufl. Chicago, Ill.: Wartburg, [1914]. 64 pp., ill.
Notes: Religion; L:GER
MKI P89-51
PIA/ Religious works
Porter, Jenny Lind. “Texas forever: the story of Fredericksburg’s Baron von Meusebach.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 19-25.
Notes: “This article originally appeared in the August 1999 edition of Texas Highways.”
Abstract: Article on John O. Meusebach (1812-1897), a German-American in Texas who contributed much to his society as a linguist, diplomat, jurist, bibliophile and naturalist.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas
Posselt, Erich. “The Story of an American Poet.” American German Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 1950, pp. 25-26.
Abstract: Tippmann, Hugo K., 1875-1942
MKI P93-83
Biographies/ Poetry
Powell, Hugh. “Disdain and delight: A German visitor reports from America in 1839.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 89-105.
Abstract: Examines three letters written by Paul Nicolaus Bernhard Josephy Schuecking (1787-1867), known as Modestus Schuecking, who visited from north Germany and took up residence for nearly two years in Steubenville, Ohio. Schuecking sharply criticizes “the habits of descendants of middle-class German immigrants” and details his concerns for educational practices, with an emphasis on the education of girls.
MKI Periodicals
Letters / Travel/ Ohio/ Social conditions/ America/ Education
Poynton, Thomas. “Pennsylvania German Tombstones.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, Fall 2015, pp. 2-15, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Paper writted in 1976 for “Pennsylvania German Culture Course” taught by C. Richard Beam. Describes symbols the Amish and Mennonites have used on their tombstones as well as the meanings of different stone designs.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Folk art
Pracht-Fitzell, Ilse. “Auf Alten Wegen (poem).” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 46.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Women authors/ Literary criticism
Prahl, Augustus J. “Friedrich Gerstaecker, the Frontier Novelist.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, 1955, pp. 43-50.
MKI P93-84
Gerstaecker, Friedrich, 1816-1872/ Fiction/ Literary criticism
Prahl, Augustus J. “The Goethe Societies of Baltimore and Washington.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 29th Report, 1956, pp. 58-63.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Societies, etc.
Prahl, Augustus J. “History of the German Gymnastic Movement of Baltimore.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 26th Report, 1945, pp. 16-29.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Physical education/ Turners/ History/ Maryland
Prange, Victor H. “Review of J. P. Koehler’s The History of the Wisconsin Synod.” WELS Historical Institute Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1983, pp. 37-40.
Notes: Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Pranger, Gary K. “Philip Schaff: His Role in American Evangelical Education.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 213-226.
Abstract: “Philip Schaff (1819-1893) is one of those marginal men whose mediating influence as a theologian touched both the evangelical and modernist camps within American Christianity.”
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
Education/ United States/ History/ German influence/ 19th century/ Germany/ Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893/ Religion
Prettyman, C. William. “Dialectical Peculiarities in the Carlisle (Pa.) Vernacular.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 67-79.
MKI Periodicals
Prewitt, Christa. “German Texan’s Genealogy Section.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 45-49.
Abstract: Various notices and new items on genealogy for German-American Texans. Including news of new databases, registers, and other books. Item on digital data preservation and on the history of Selma, TX and its German-American families.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy
Prinz, Harvey. “150 Years of Turners in the Quad Cities: Turners of Moline, Illinois 1866-1983.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 19-21.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Turners/ Societies, etc.
Prinz, Harvey, Wayne Meyer, and Steve Repp. “A misplaced Turner Hall in Galena, Illinois.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 15-17.
Abstract: History of the Galena (Illinois) Sociale Turner Gemeinde, organized in 1851.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Societies, etc./ Illinois
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Amazing Kohrs Brothers: Climbing the American Dream. Part 1: Roots Up and Roots Down.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn 2004, pp. 6-8, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: Recounts the stories of the Kohrs brothers, Johann Heinrich Luetje and Carsten Conrad, who were born in Wewelsfleth, in the province of Holstein. Johann settled in Davenport, Iowa, and built a “noted regional pork packing business,” while Conrad journeyed far and wide before becoming “well known in the West as the ‘Cattle King of Montana.'”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Business & Industry/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ 19th century
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Amazing Kohrs Brothers: Climbing the American Dream. Part 2: Immigrant Advantage.” Infoblatt, vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 5-8, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: Recounts the stories of the Kohrs brothers, Johann Heinrich Luetje and Carsten Conrad, who were born in Wewelsfleth, in the province of Holstein. Johann settled in Davenport, Iowa, and built a “noted regional pork packing business,” while Conrad journeyed far and wide before becoming “well known in the West as the ‘Cattle King of Montana.'”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Business & Industry/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Immigrants, German/ 19th century
Prinz, Harvey L. “Davenport’s First Public German School: 150th Anniversary, 1853-2003–Die Freie Deutsche Schule (German Free School).” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2003, pp. 5-10, ill.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Schools/ Education/ Davenport (Iowa)/ German language school/ Teaching of German/ Teaching
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Inside Story of the Davenport Turner Hall [Part 1].” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 9-11, ill.
Abstract: Designed by local architect F. G. Clausen and built in 1887-88, the monumental Davenport Turner Hall was demolished in 1960. Quoting from an 1887 newspaper account, the article describes exercise classes and gymnastic exhibitions, the Grand Theater (Opera House), and the gymnasium at the Turner Hall.
MKI Periodicals
Davenport (Iowa)/ German Americans — Iowa/ Turners
Prinz, Harvey L. “A Memory Rises from the Rubble: The Anken Flats Building.” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 3, Summer 2003, pp. 9-12, ill.
Abstract: The Anken Flats buidling was erected in 1893 in Davenport, Iowa, across the street from the Davenport Turner Hall and Opera House. The builder was David Anken, born in Dermstetten, Switzerland, in 1839. The building originally held the Anken & Knaack Cheese Company. It then held the area’s first major wholsale ice cream plant, Prinz & Larmore. Article relates the life of Charles Prinz, with a focus on his success in the ice cream business.
MKI Periodicals
Davenport (Iowa)/ German Americans — Iowa/ 20th century/ Business & Industry/ Architecture/ Swiss Americans
Prinz, Harvey L. “They Wanted to Be Remembered: Inside the German Free School Cornerstone Box.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2004 , pp. 5-9, ill.
Abstract: Reports on the copper box containing more than 100 artifacts that was set into the cornerstone of Davenport, Iowa’s second “Freie Deutsche Schule” (German Free School) building in 1899. The box contains many photographs, newspapers, and handwritten documents (such as music scores, poems and signatures of the children and teachers of the “Sonntag Schule”), as well as other items, all of which help to reveal “the important part those German immigrants played in the development of Davenport and Scott County over 100 years ago,” particularly on the German Free School movement in Davenport.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Schools/ Education / German language school/ Teaching of German/ Teaching/ History
Prinz, Harvey L. “Those Musical Germans and the Zither They Loved: Part 1–The Davenport Zither Club.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 6-9.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Music/ Societies, etc.
Prinz, Harvey L. “Those Musical Germans and the Zither They Loved: Part 2–The American Zither Verband.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 5-8.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Music/ Societies, etc.
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Turner movement: Turner origins and coming to America in 1848.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 26-29.
Notes: “This article first appeared in the German American Heritage Center’s Infoblatt.”.
Abstract: Focuses on the Turner Movement’s beginning, and how it came to America.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Societies, etc.
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Voss Brothers: Changing the World of Laundry. Part 1, How It All Began.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2002 , pp. 8-11.
Abstract: The Voss family emigrated from Mecklenburg in 1873 and came to Davenport, Iowa. Wilhelm Voss is credited with inventing the first washing machine in 1876.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Business & Industry/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Voss Brothers Manufacturing Company
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Voss Brothers of Davenport, Iowa: Changing the World of Laundry. Part 2, From Woodworking to Washers.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 4, Autumn 2002, pp. 5-9, ill.
Abstract: Article chronicles the Davenport woodworking business of the Voss brothers, and their shift to an emphasis on making washing machines in the late 1890s.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Business & Industry/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Voss Brothers Manufacturing Company
Prinz, Harvey L. “The Voss Brothers of Davenport, Iowa: Changing the World of Laundry. Part 3, Thriving through the Depression and Beyond.” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2003, pp. 5-9, ill.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Business & Industry/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Voss Brothers Manufacturing Company
Prinz, Harvey L. “When Germans brought bowling to Iowa: First lanes built in 1847–Narrow lane nine-pin bowling.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 5-7.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Societies, etc./ Iowa
Prinz, Merle E. “Breaking through: German-American Women in United States History.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 14-19, ill.
Abstract: Biographical notes on Mathilda Franziska Anneke, Marlene Dietrich, Lotte Lehmann, Maria Ludwig (Molly Pitcher), Anna Ottendorfer, Doris Mary Ann Kapplehof (Doris Day), Fredericka Scheff Yarger, Elisabeth Schumann, Margaretha Meyer Schurz, Elisabet Ney, and Lillian Wald.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Women/ History/ Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Lehmann, Lotte/ Ludwig, Maria/ Ottendorfer, Anna/ Kapplehof, Doris Mary Ann (Doris Day)/ Yarger, Fredericka Scheff/ Schumann, Elisabeth/ Schurz, Margaretha Meyer, 1833-1876/ Ney, Elizabet, 1833-1907/ Wald, Lillian/ Dietrich, Marlene
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 10, In the National Service, 1861-1862.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 15-20, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 11. General Schurz, Volunteer.” Infoblatt, vol. 10, no. 1, Winter 2005, pp. 12-17, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 12. Gettysburg July 1863.” Infoblatt, vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 15-19, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 13. Tennessee.” Infoblatt, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer 2005, pp. 13-17, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 14. A Soldier’s Career Ends — Political Engagement Begins.” Infoblatt, vol. 10, no. 4, Autumn 2005, pp. 15-19, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 15. Restoration of the South.” Infoblatt, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter 2006, pp. 15-20, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Politics
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 16. The Senator from Missouri.” Infoblatt, vol. 11, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 15-20, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Politics
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 2.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 14-18.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 3, Insurrection.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 4, Autumn 2002, pp. 13-17, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, IA.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 5, America!” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 15-18, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 6, Becoming American.” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 3, Summer 2003, pp. 17-21, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 7, Schurz, Slavery, and Politics.” Infoblatt, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn 2003, pp. 15-19, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 8, A House Divided.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2004, pp. 15-20, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Watertown (Wis.)
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 9, 1860, a Year of American Turmoil.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 15-20, ill.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Watertown (Wis.)
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Quotable Words from Carl Schurz.” Infoblatt, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn 2004, pp. 15, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Slavery/ Politics/ Letters
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: Radical, Fugitive, German American Leader. Part 1.” Infoblatt, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 14-17.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans
Prinz, Merle E. “Fraeulein Ney, German American Sculptor.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 14-18.
Notes: “This article first appeared in the German American Heritage Center’s Infoblatt.”
Abstract: Biographical sketch of German-American sculptor Elizabet Ney (1833-1907), who immigrated to the U.S. from Muenster in 1871. Focuses on her life and work while still in Europe.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Artists/ Women/ Ney, Elizabet, 1833-1907
Prinz, Merle E. “The lumber barons: The story of two German immigrants who began one of the world’s largest wood products company [sic] in Rock Island, Illinois. Part one.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 2001 , pp. 8-12.
Abstract: Frederick Carl August Denkmann and Frederick Weyerhaeuser found wood products company in 1858.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Business & Industry
Prinz, Merle E. “The lumber barons, Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann of Rock Island, IL and Davenport, IA. Part three.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 4, Autumn 2001, pp. 12-17.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Iowa/ Business & Industry
Prinz, Merle E. “The lumber barons, Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann: The continuing story of two German immigrants who began one of the world’s largest wood products companies in Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. Part Two.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 3 , Summer 2001, pp. 8-12.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Illinois/ Business & Industry
Prinz, Merle E. “The poor Palatines: The first large migration of Germans to America, 1709-1710. Part one.” Infoblatt, vol. 5, no. 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 5-9.
Notes: Typo in title: “Palantines”; article reprinted in The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), v. 23, no. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 278-282.
MKI Periodicals
Palatines/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Atlantic crossing
Prinz, Merle E. “The poor Palatines: The first large migration of Germans to America, 1709-1710. Part two.” Infoblatt, vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 6-11.
Notes: Typo in title: “Palantines.”
MKI Periodicals
Palatines/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Atlantic crossing
Pritzkau, Gwen. “Pioneers on Two Continents: Germans to Russia and America.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 369
Abstract: On the tradition of Russian Tsars to invite foreigners (Germans) to live in Russia and Germans in the US.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 4
Immigrants, German/ Russia
Pritzker-Ehrlich, Marthi. “Michael Schlatter (1716-1790): A Man-In-Between.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 83-95.
Abstract: Pritzker-Ehrlich’s novel describes the life of Michael Schlatter, who helped organize the German Reformed Church in the Middle Colonies, was involved in the Charity School Movement, and participated in several campaigns against American Indians.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Biographies/ Swiss Americans/ Pennsylvania/ Reformed Church/ Schools/ German language school/ Language, German (US)/ 18th century
Pritzlaff, Johann Carl Wilhelm. “Letter Written by an 1839 Pomeranian Pioneer.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, March 2015, June 2015, September 2015, ff., pp. (see individual issues).
Notes: Translated by Lucille Ruedt.
Abstract: Some 1,100 Lutherans from Prussia left to find religious freedom in America in the early 1800’s. Pritzlaff, from Trieflaff, Kreis Greifenberg, wrote letters home about his experiences following his departure in 1839.
MKI Periodicals
Pomeranians — Wisconsin/ Pomerania — Emigration and immigration/ Letters
Probst, J. G. “‘Lehnduli.’ Dorfgeschichte aus dem bernischen Seelande.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 41, 1921, pp. 17-36, ill.
Notes: Author is noted as being from Harrisburg, Ark. Includes a sketch of the author; other illustrations scattered throughout the story are of Swiss politicians.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Dialects/ Fiction
Probst, J. G. “‘S’ Schmiedmarei.’ Erzaehlung aus dem bernischen Seelande.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 37, 1917, pp. 21-29.
Notes: Von J. G. Probst, Harrisburg, Ark.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Fiction
Proctor, V. B., and J. A. White. “‘Deutschland uber Alles’ Is Canned! German Is the Hateful Language of Our Hateful Enemy.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 39-47.
Abstract: A reproduction of a pamphlet originally published and distributed by the Goliad County (Texas) Council of Defense in September 1918. The pamphlet is an “example of the vehement anti-German sentiments that emerged during World War I. The Councils of Defense mentioned in the text were created at the national, state, and local levels to promote patriotism, suppress German culture, and monitor the activities of German-Americans suspected of disloyalty or sedition.”
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Anti-German sentiment
Prokop, Manfred. “The dynamics of language maintenance and assimilation: The German language in Alberta.” The German language in America, 1683-1991. Joseph C. Salmons, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. 63-76.
Abstract: In the Province of Alberta 11% of Albertans claimed German origin at the 1981 census. However, the German ethnic group does not appear prominently in Canadian day-to-day affairs, and in the German clubs and associations the fear is frequently expressed that German is rapidly disappearing. In this paper the examination of language loss in Alberta is based on a custom analysis of complete census data for Alberta which was carried out by Statistics Canada for this project. The objective of the investigation was to determine the variables contributing to language maintenance or language loss in the Province and to examine its internal dynamics
MKI PF 5925 G47 1993
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Language maintenance/ Language loss/ Dialects
Puchner, R. Erinnerungen aus den ersten Jahren der Ansiedlung New Holstein. Chilton, Wis.: Wisconsin Demokrat, 1847?
Abstract: Reminiscences of R. Puchner. Personal account.
MKI P91-50
PIA/ New Holstein (Wis.)/ Frontier and pioneer life/ Personal narratives
Puetz, Manfred. “Book Review of David Eisermann.” Vol. in Amerikastudien / American Studies, no. Heft 4, 1985, pp. 469-471.
Abstract: Jahrgang 33
MKI P91-5
Book reviews
Pula, James S. “The Sigel Regiment.” In German-American Studies: A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy. Robert E. Ward, Editor-in-Chief Vol. 8.1974, pp. 27-52.
Notes: pictures included.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E 184. G3 G315
Soldiers/ Biographies/ Wisconsin/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ United States/ History/ Personal narratives
Pula, James S. “The Writing on the Walls: Badger Graffiti in Civil War Virginia.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 86, no. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 38-49, ill.
Abstract: Relates the history behind the discovery of nine names–Schlosser, Scholz, Van Eweyk, Reifenstuhl, Froelich, Rook, Fernekes, Hoene, and Koege–written on the attic walls of the Blenheim Estate in Fairfax, Virginia. The names can be traced to the 26th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed “the Sigel Regiment” in honor of Franz Sigel, the German revolutionary leader of 1848 who was then a popular leader of the national German American community.
MKI Periodicals; P2003-9
Soldiers/ Wisconsin/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ United States/ History
Pulte, William J. Jr. “German in Virginia and West Virginia.” In The German Language in America. Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1971, pp. 58-69.
Abstract: An overview over several studies that were performed to document regions in Virginia and West Virginia where Germans lived and settled.
MKI/MEM PF 5925 .G4
Virginia/ Language, German (US)
Purcell, W. L. “Pretzel Alley: Where the German Crew Hoisted Their Brew.” Infoblatt, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 1, 4, ill.
Notes: German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa.
Abstract: “The following redacted recollection is of Pretzel Alley — the alley between Main to Harrison, between Third and Fourth Streets [in Davenport, Iowa], was once the soggiest stretch in town, known for its German saloons and the jokes that flowed as fast as the beer taps. Such notables surnames as Raphael, Hickey, Conrad, Berg, French, Adler, Paulsen, Petersen, Brooks, Mueller, Carroll, Korn, Ruhl, Kuehl, Goldschmidt, Meinert, and many others . . . met regularly to ‘swear their loyalty to the flag of the pretzel, and to renounce all allegiance to foreign kings, queens, jacks and deucespots.'” The source of this article is W. L. Purcell’s 1922 book, Them Was the Good Old Days. “Pretzel Alley published an official organ The Wurst-Blatt, for one consecutive week, while operatin’ the rathskeller at the Turner fair, and annually thereafter. The Wurst-Blatt published official proceedings of the alley council, the annual reports of alley officers, and the poetry of Barney Squires, tree-trimmer and poet lariat.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Davenport (Iowa)/ 20th century/ Humor & Satire/ Social life and customs
Putnam, Michael T., and Bradley G. Weiss. “An Investigation of Consonant Inventory Development in East Frisian Low German Utilizing Optimality Theory.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 135-149, tables.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of specific elements of the phonological inventory of East Frisian Low German (EFLG) currently spoken in Grundy County, Iowa, within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT).”
MKI Periodicals
Linguistics/ Low German dialect/ Dialectology/ Sociolinguistics/ German Americans — Iowa/ Frisian language
Quack, Sybille. “Deutsch-juedische Emigrantinnen nach 1933 in New York. Ein Forschungsbericht.” Frauen wandern aus: Deutsche Migrantinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Monika Blaschke and Christiane Harzig, eds. Bremen: Labor Migration Project, 1990, pp. 145-159.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
MKI HQ 1410 .F738 1990; SHS Pam 90-3693
Women/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 20th century/ Exile/ National Socialism/ Jews, German/ German Americans — New York
Quay, Rachel. “From Austria to Austin: A Jewish Refugee’s Story.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 32, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 99-103, ill.
Notes: Essay written by a high school student on a German-Texan theme.
Abstract: Relates the story of Gertrude (Gertie) Schmidt, who fled Vienna with her family at the age of 14. In 1950, Gertie and her husband moved to Texas. Describes some of Gertie’s experiences in Nazi-annexed Austria, and compares life for Jews in New York and in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ 20th century/ Jews, German
Quinn, Tony. “The Ticino Swiss Immigration to California.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 47, no. 1, Feb. 2011, pp. 23-26, ill.
Abstract: Immigration from Ticino began in the middle 1850s; it is estimated that some 30,000 people, mainly men, were part of this migration. Ticino Swiss settled almost exclusively in California, and predominantly in rural parts of the state, pursuing work as dairy farmers or in vineyards.
MKI Periodicals
Swiss Americans — California
Quynn, William Rogers. “The Diary of Jacob Engelbrecht: Chronicle of Life in Frederick, Maryland from 1819-1878.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 31st Report, 1963, pp. 63-65.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Diaries/ Maryland
Raku, Myke. “Are Your German Ancestors Really Swiss?” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. Vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. 5, ill.
Abstract: A summary of a presentation given by Annette Burgert at the German Genealogy Society’s 2002 Spring Conference: “If your German ancestors came to America n the eighteenth century, you may discover that they had lived in Switzerland in the seventeenth century. About one half of Pennsylvania Germans were originally Swiss.”A map shows migration routes from Switzerland into Germany.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration / Pennsylvania Germans/ 18th century
Rampelmann, Katja. “Infidels, Ethnicity, and Womanhood: Women in the German-American Freethinker-Movement.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 61-76.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “The German-American Free Congregations, later known as Freethinker-Soceities, were gateways for women on their way to equality. In contrast to most other German-American societies of the time, Free Congregations felt the necessity for female participation and granted women equal access to all their resources. . . . This article explores the role of women in the German-American Free-thinker movement, demonstrating the principles of equality with regard to membership and examines why and how this was implemented.” Sections include: Roots of the Freethinker-Movement in Germany, Principles of the Free Congregations, Women in Free Congregations and Freethinker Societies, and The Concept of Female Nourishment.
MKI Periodicals
Freethinkers/ Women/ Societies, etc.
Rampelmeier, Anastasius. “Die ‘Westkoenigin.'” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift fuer die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1877, pp. 5-12, ill.
Notes: Donated by the Mayville Historical Society.
Abstract: Describes a trip to Cincinnati. Begins: “Wir, das heisst ich und mein Reisekamerad, fuhren auf der ‘Kentucky Centralbahn’ in so maessiger Geschwindheit, dass die Unterhaltung ohne grosse Anstrengung gefuehrt werden konnte. Was wir mit einander plauderten, als der Zug sich dem Ohiothal und Cincinnati naeherte, dazu brauch ich nur anzudeuten, dass mein Reisegefaehrte in Chicago daheim ist, ich aber in Ohio.”
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Travel/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ America/ Illustrated
Rampelmeier, Anastasius. “Draussen vor der Westkoenigin.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift fuer die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 2, Feb. 1877, pp. 73-76, ill.
Notes: Donated by the Mayville Historical Society.
Abstract: Describes a trip in the Cincinnati area, including Mount Auburn and Spring Grove.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Travel/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ America/ Illustrated
Ramsden, Randi Julia. “Shaping Identity: The History of German-Language Newspapers in Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 100 , no. 1, Fall 2016, pp. 28-43, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Almost five and a half million immigrants arrived in the United States from the German Confederation and the German Empire between 1820 and 1910. By 1914, there were 66 German-language newspapers in Wisconsin serving the state’s German immigrant communities. But when the US government declared war against Germany in 1917, these papers were declared a potential threat to national security. As the need for a unified American identity and the pressures of censorship grew, the decline of the German-language press in Wisconsin increased. Within the four years of the war, about 36 percent of these papers disappeared. This article chronicles the process by which German-language newspapers started as a side effect of German immigration and ended under the rise of patriotism, but ultimately proved to be a central influence in shaping Wisconsin culture.
MKI P2017-02
Newspapers, German-American/ Wisconsin/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Ethnic identity/ 16th century/ 19th century/ World War, 1914-1918
Rankin, Diana M. “Ethnicity and Religion: The German-American Experience.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981, pp. 98-101.
Abstract: Rankin’s paper points out the similarities in the experiences of German-American Lutherans and Catholics, discusses the role of ethnicity in the practice of Catholicism by German-Americans, and argues for the perspective, documentation, and analytical techniques of folklore studies in researching a German Catholic heritage.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Religion/ Catholics/ Assimilation/ Lutherans/ Folklore
Rankin, Diana M. “A Selected Biography on the German Heritage in Minnesota.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1981, pp. 141-59.
Abstract: Rankin’s bibliography is divided into the following subjects: General Works; Immigration History; Local History; Personal Memoirs, Reminiscences, and Letters, including Family Papers; Ethnicity; Emigration, Immigration and Settlement; Material Culture; German Language Press and Literature; Religion; The Language Experience; Politics; and Other Cultural Expressions.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981
German Americans — Minnesota/ Bibliographies/ Religion/ Ethnic Identity/ Culture/ Letters/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Newspapers/ Politics
Rankin, James H. “The Pabst Theater Heritage.” Filmmakers, vol. 2, no. 5, May 2002, pp. 2-5, 10, ill.
Notes: Donated by Patricia Balon of the Pabst Theater, April 2003.
Abstract: The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee “is the fourth oldest continuously operating theatre on the same site in the United States” and a designated National Historic Landmark. Originally an opera house, it was purchased and remodeled by Frederick Pabst in 1890, who named it Das Neue Deutsche Stadt-Theater. This article describes the architecture and history of the theater up to its purchase by the Cudahy Foundation in 2002.
MKI P2003-11
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Pabst, Frederick/ Theater & Drama/ Architecture
Rapp, Wilhelm. “Baltimore 1861: We Want Rapp. A Letter by Wilhelm Rapp. Finckh, Alice H., ed.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 28th Report, 1953, pp. 79-81.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Maryland/ Letters / Rapp, George, 1757-1847
Rapp, Wilhelm. “The Baltimore Riots of 1861: A Letter of Wilhelm Rapp.” The Newberry Library Bulletin, vol. Second series, no. 2, May 1952, pp. 274-283, ill.
Notes: Translated and Annotated by Fritz Caspari. “Note: The following letter of Wilhelm Rapp, long-time editor of the Chicago German-language newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, has been translated from a typewritten copy presented to the Newberry Library by Mr. William Rapp Kemper of Evanston, Illinois, grandson of the author. Wilhelm Rapp was born in 1827 in the state of Wuerttemberg in Germany. While studying theology at the University of Tuebingen he became involved in the Revolution of 1848, and after its failure sought refuge in Switzerland. On his return he was imprisoned for one year, tried for high treason, and finally acquitted. In 1852, he emigrated to America. After some years of editorial work with the Cincinnati Turn-Zeitung, Rapp in 1857 became editor of the Baltimore Wecker, a German-language newspaper of strong Republican sympathies. Like many of his fellow Forty-Eighters, Rapp fought passionately against slavery and Know-Nothingism. The lively experiences described in this letter [to his father]. . . prompted Rapp to come to Chicago and join the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. In 1891 he became its editor-in-chief, succeeding Hermann Raster, some of whose letters and private papers are also at the Newberry Library and have been described in the Bulletin of December, 1945 (I, 3). Wilhelm Rapp continued as the editorial head of the Staats-Zeitung until his death in 1907. — F.C.”
Abstract: As editor of the Baltimore Wecker, Rapp’s anti-secessionist and anti-slavery views made him the target of mob violence. In this letter to his father dated 30 June 1861, written from Chicago, Rapp describes his narrow escape from riots in Baltimore.
MKI P2011-20
Rapp, Wilhlem, 1828-1907/ German Americans — Maryland/ Baltimore (Md.)/ Forty-eighters/ 19th century/ Slavery/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Newspapers, German-American
Rath, G. “Die Russlanddeutschen in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 5, May 1939, pp. 278-280.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
MKI P2007-31
Russian Germans/ 20th century/ German Americans
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Anfaenge und Entwicklung der Musik und des Gesanges in den Vereinigten Staaten waehrend der ersten Haelfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 327-380.
Notes: German-American author; Also in “Der Deutsche Kulturtraeger 1 (1913): 433-39, 486-93, 545-48 (incomplete).
Abstract: The influence of German-Americans on American music in the first half of the 19th century.
MKI Periodicals
Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923/ Music/ Songs/ German influence/ Cultural influence/ Cultural contribution/ 19th century
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Christian Esselen. Eine Charakterstudie aus der Vergangenheit.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 405-461.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Christian Esselen, a 48er and poet. Includes one of his poems, “Urwald und Ruinen,” at the end.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Forty-eighters/ Poetry/ German Americans/ Rattermann, Heinrich Armin, 1832-1923
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Dem Andenken Benjamin Franklins. Rede gehalten bei der Feier des zweihundertsten Geburtstages Franklins in Cincinnati, 17. Januar 1906.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 172-179.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: A celebratory essay on Benjamin Franklin for the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, emphasizing his relations to the German-American community.
MKI Periodicals
Statesmen/ Colonial period/ Social influence
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Denkrede zur Feier des hundertsten Geburtstages von Ferdinand Freiligrath.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 260-275.
Notes: German-American author; Gehalten im litterarischen Klub von Cincinnati am 15. Juni 1910.
Abstract: A celebratory essay on the German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, including some of his poetry.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry/ Literature, German
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Der deutsch-amerikanische Journalismus und seine Verbreitung von 1800 bis zur Einwanderung der sogenannten “Dreissiger”.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 283-305.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Journalism
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Deutschamerikanische Dichter und Dichtungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. (Eine Anthologie).” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 14, 1914, pp. 84-316.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German-American/ Poetry
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Deutschlands Franklin gegen puritanische kopfhaengerei .” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 576-580.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: Die folgende “patriotische Phantasie’ Justus Moesers fand ich unlaengst in der Berlinischen Monatsschrift vom Maerz 1785.”
MKI Periodicals
Literature, German/ Politics/ 18th century
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Die Erinnerung an Emil Rothe. Denkrede gehalten im Deutschen Litterarischen Club von Cincinnati am 26. Februar 1896.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 222-240.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: A commemorative essay on Emil Rothe, the first president of the German Literary Club and an active German-American in Wisconsin and Ohio. Includes a poem written in honor of Rothe by the article’s author, Heinrich Armin Ratterman. Chronicles Rothe’s career in Europe and the United States.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ German Americans — Ohio/ Political activity/ Prussia/ 19th century
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Die Pseudo-Unabhaengigkeits-Erklaerung von Mecklenburg County, Nord-Carolina.” German American Annals, vol. 2, n.s., 1904, pp. 211-241.
Notes: German-American author; Vortrag gehalten im “Deutschen Literarischen Klub von Cincinnati” am 7. September 1892.
MKI Periodicals
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Dr. Oswald Seidensticker und die deutsch-amerikanische Geschichtsforschung.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 129-163.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: Seidensticker, Oswald, 1825-1894
MKI Periodicals
History/ Research/ German Americans/ Literary criticism
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Eine Berichtigungen.” German American Annals, vol. 1, 1903, pp. 722-733.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Eine Ehrenrettung des Franz Daniel Pastorius.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 212-222.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Literary criticism
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Eine in Amerika geborene Dichterin Deutschlands. Susanna von Bandemer, geborene Franklin. (Vortrag gehalten im Deutschen Litterarischen Klub von Cincinnati am 16. Mai 1906.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 180-202.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: An essay on the German-American poet Susanna von Bandemer, including several examples of her poetry. The author furthers the theory that she is an illegitimate child of Benjamin Franklin.
MKI Periodicals
Women authors/ Poetry/ Literature, German-American/ 18th century
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Franz Lieber. Deutsch-Amerikanischer Gelehrter und Dichter.” German American Annals, vol. 2, n.s.; 3,n.s., 1904, pp. 697-725; 3-18, 35-48.
Notes: German-American author; Denkrede, gehalten im Deutschen Litterarischen Klub von Cincinnati … 14 Maerz 1900.
MKI Periodicals
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Friedrich Hassaurek.” Der Deutsche Pionier: Erinnerungen aus dem Pionier-Leben der Deutschen in Amerika , vol. 17, 1885, pp. 3-20.
Abstract: Biography of Friedrich Hassaurek. (Hassaurek, Friedrich, 1832-1885)
MKI P98-44
Forty-eighters/ Biographies
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “General August Willich.” Der Deutsche Pionier: Erinnerungen aus dem Pionier-Leben der Deutschen in Amerika, vol. 9, 1878, pp. 439-445.
Abstract: Biography of General August Willich. (Willich, August, 1810-1878)
MKI P98-46
Forty-eighters/ Biographies/ Willich, August
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Kritik des Wheelinger Congresses von 1852.” Der Deutsche Pionier: Erinnerungen aus dem Pionier-Leben der Deutschen in Amerika, vol. 8, 1876, pp. 155-159.
Abstract: Criticism of the Congress in Wheeling and of Schlaeger’s article about it.
MKI P98-45
Forty-eighters
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Pastorius und die Gruendung von Germantown, Pa.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 12, 1912, pp. 559-567.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI Periodicals
Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719/ Germantown (Pa.)/ History
Rattermann, Heinrich A. “Theodor Erasmus Hilgard. Deutsch-amerikanischer Dichter und juristischer Schriftsteller.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911 , pp. 250-260.
Notes: German-American author.
Abstract: An historical essay on the German-American poet Theodor Erasmus Hilgard, including several examples of his poetry.
MKI Periodicals
Poetry/ Literature, German-American/ German Americans — Illinois/ German Americans — Missouri/ 19th century
Rau, Donna. “Murder, Betrayal, and Canoodling: The Continuing Saga of the Junge (Yunge, Young) Sisters, and the Marowski (Marousky, Marasuky, Meroski) and Roemmele (Rommel, Rimmel, Romel) Families.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 40-46, ill.
Abstract: Wilhelm (William) Marowski left the town of Oderberg in Prussia with his wife and daughter in 1850, arriving in Baltimore, Maryland. He opened a starch manufacturing plant and a general store in Baltimore, and letters he wrote home expressed great satisfaction with his new homeland. His wife, Wilhelmina (Minnie) Junge Marowski, however, wrote letters to her family which told of her great homesickness. In 1856, Minnie’s sister Amalie Junge set sail with Florentine Lange for New Orleans, intending to reach Nacogdoches, Texas, where two of her brothers lived. Research shows Amalie married Karl Franz Roemmele in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, in 1857. Near the end of 1856, the Marowskis left Baltimore and moved to Nacogdoches, perhaps so that Minnie could be closer to family members. This article includes a great deal of information of the lives of these German-American families in Texas, including a court case where Amalie claimed she could not explain her business dealings in English, but seemed able to understand questions asked of her in English.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Marowski/ German Americans — Texas/ Junge
Rauch, Irmengard. “English phonetic contrasts in San Francisco Bay Area German.” Across the oceans: Studies from East to West in honor of Richard K. Seymour. Irmengard Rauch, and Moore Cornelia, eds., pp. 167-175.
Abstract: Phonetics. Reports about a further phase of the Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project comparing bilingual native German adults with interlingual German-American children.
MKI PN865.A27 1995
Linguistics/ Language, English/ United States/ Bilingualism
Rauch, Irmengard. “San Francisco Bay Area German: A pilot study.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 96-104.
Notes: Monatshefte fuer deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literature.
Abstract: “Fourteen San Francisco Bay Area German Project (B.A.G.) field workers at the University of California, Berkeley, elicited oral translation data for 25 sentences devised on the basis of their potential yield of specific syntactic, morphological, pragamatic, and lexical-semantic featurs. The B.A.G. informants consisted of 12 adult native-speakers and 6 first-generation American children of German descent. The adult data was clearly bilingual, the children’s unambiguously interlingual. The former allow quantification much more readily than do the latter, which evince more syntactic, morphological, and lexical variation, many of them grammatical or semigrammatical.”
MKI P2001-35
Language, English/ Language, German/ Linguistics/ German Americans — California
Raw, Matthew. “Redefining Ethnic Identity: The German American Community’s Turn to the Socialist Party in Davenport, Iowa during World War I. History Honors Thesis.” University of Iowa, 2001. 74 pp.
Notes: Downloaded PDF from the Internet, April 2004.
Abstract: Provides an examination of the German-American community in Davenport and seeks to answer the following questions: Why was the Socialist Party such a powerful force in Davenport’s local politics? Why did the Scott County Council of National Defense feel the need to prosecute a vigorous campaign against the supposed pro-German elements of the city? How did Davenport’s German Americans respond to the intense patriotic demands placed on their ethnic community?
MKI P2004-33
German Americans — Iowa/ Politics/ Socialism/ History/ Davenport (Iowa)/ Ethnic identity/ World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans.
Reagan, Ann B. “Eugen Luening and the Milwaukee Musical Society.” Milwaukee History, vol. 6, no. 3, 1983, pp. 92-100.
Abstract: As musical director of the Milwaukee Musical Society for over twenty years, Eugen Luening exerted considerable local influence as a conductor, director, composer, and teacher. Biography of Luening.
MKI P98-6
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ Music
Reagan, Ann Bakamjian. “Art Music in Milwaukee in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1850-1900.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980. [183] pp.
Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.)–University of Wisconsin–Madison. — This is a rough draft of the author’s dissertation given to Prof. Lester Seifert for corrections. No title page or details about the university, the date etc.
Abstract: Includes several sections on Milwaukee in the 19th century; biographies of some of Milwaukee’s musical personalities of the late nineteenth century: Eugen Luening, Christoph Bach, John Comfort Filimore; the Milwaukee Musical Society; Milwaukee and the Saengerbund; musical societies in late 19th c. Milwaukee.
MKI Dissertations
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ Music/ 19th century.
Reaves, Patricia I. A German genealogical primer. Madison, Wis.: Selbstverlag, 1997. iii, 65 pp.
Abstract: A guide to help people trace their German heritage.
MKI P2014-9
Guides/ Genealogy/ Germany
Rebok, Sandra. “Thomas Jefferson and Germany: His Travel Experience, Scientific and Philosophical Influences.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 48, 2013, pp. 1-23.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pp. 19-23).
Abstract: Examines “the role German culture, philosophy, technology and science played in [Jefferson’s] thinking and acting throughout his life” from “his first contact with Hessian prisoners of war interned in Virginia during the American Revolution, through his observations regarding the German states taken during his travels there in April 1788, along with later impressions created by different groups of people he personally met or corresponded with following his return to the United States, such as immigrants, scholars, merchants or visitors to Monticello in later years.”
Yearbook of German-American Studies
Jefferson, Thomas/ Travel/ Germany/ Science/ Intellectual life/ German influence/ Revolution, 1775-1783/ Immigrants, German
Rechlin, Alice T. M. “Quality Environment and the Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Nappanee, Indiana.” Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Proceedings, vol. 8, Third Series, 1973, pp. 91-101.
MKI P87-109
Indiana/ Amish
Redding, J. Gregory. “The Deutscher Literarischer Klub von Cincinnati and the German-American Elite.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 49-61.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Sections cover the founding of the club, club activities and demographics, the “parameters of the German-American elite,” and “defining the German-American elite.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Ohio/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Social life and customs/ Societies, etc.
Redmond, Shirley Raye. “Carving an Independent Life.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 48, ill.
Notes: Article first appeared in Texas Co-Op Power, August 2005, p. 20.
Abstract: “The terms ‘daring’ and ‘visionary’ have been used to describe the statues of Texas heroes Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin at the state capitol in Austin. The words could also be used to define Elisabet Ney, the saucy German-American sculptor who created them.” Born in 1833 in Muenster, Westphalia, Ney settled in Texas in 1872.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Artists/ Women/ Ney, Elizabet, 1833-1907
Reed, Carroll E. “The Dialectology of American Colonial German.” In The German Language in America. Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971, pp. 3-13.
Abstract: An overview over German-American dialectological studies and the small islands of German speaking communities in the US.
MKI/MEM PF 5925 .G4
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Colonial period/ Dialects
Reed, Carroll E. “Pennsylvania German: A Test of Semantic Survival.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 133-140.
Abstract: Reed’s article consists of the following lists: terms common to Middle and Upper German; terms more restricted in western and Upper German; Grammatical or phonetic features of vocabulary common to Middle and Upper German; terms indicating a special semantic structure or a change of such in Pennsylvania German; terms for which Pennsylvania German either preserves certain archaisms or has developed innovations; terms subject to taboos affecting usage and survival; and terms with innovations from, or based on English.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Language, German (US)/ Palatinate/ Lutherans/ Language, English/ United States/ Language influence
Reed, Carroll E. “A Phonological History of Pennsylvania German.” Published in Studies for Einar Haugen. Evelyn Scherabon Firchow, and others, eds. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1972. Abstract: The author begins with the assumption that the Palatine area is substantially the geographic cradle of Pennsylvania German, and derives all pertinent linguistic consequences from conditions prevailing among German speakers in that area from the time of Otfrid until the end of the 17th century. MKI P85-48 Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Linguistics/ Research
Reed, Carroll E., and Lester W. J. Seifert. The Reed-Seifert Questionnaire. 43 pp.
Abstract: A language questionnaire for Pennsylvania German. Results of interviews using this questionnaire are published in A Word Atlas of Pennsylvania German (Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute, 2001)
MKI P2005-26
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Linguistics/ Language, German (US) — Dialects
Reenen, Pieter van. The Hollandish Roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa. Vrije Universiteit Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 46. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Free University, Department of Language, 1999. 73 pp.
MKI P2003-28
Linguistics/ Iowa
Reeves, Dona B. “German Language Groups in Texas.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 86-99.
Abstract: This article deals with the history and present state of the German language in Texas.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ History/ Texas
Regenbrecht, Adalbert. “The German Settlers of Millheim before the Civil War.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 24, no. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 153-158.
Notes: Reprinted from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 20, 1916, pp. 28-34.
Abstract: Reprinted article from 1916 provides biographical sketches of some prominent German-Americans from Millheim, Texas, including the author, E. G. Maetze, Charles Nagel, Wm. D. Cleveland, Hugo Becker, W. A. Trenckmann, and Wm. Hagemann.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Pioneers/ Biographies
Rehmer, Rudolph F. “Old Dutch Church.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, 1976, pp. 98-111.
Abstract: St. John’s Lutheran Church, near Ellettsville, Bean Blossom Township, Monroe Co. Indiana.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Lutheran Church
Reichmann, Eberhard. “Book review: Emigration from the Osnabruck Region to North America in the 19th century.” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 18, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2001, pp. 134.
Notes: SHS and MEM own reviewed book: SHS E 184.63 G3 K3 1999 / MEM JV8095 O8 K3 1999.
Abstract: Review of Von Heuerleuten und Farmern by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Peter Marschalck and Birgit Nolte-Schuster.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)
Reichmann, Eberhard. “Review of The First Description of Cincinnati and Other Ohio Settlements: The Travel Report of Johann Heckewelder (1792).” Translated by H. A. Rattermann. Edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies. 1990, pp. 238-39.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Reichmann, Eberhard, and Ruth Reichmann. “The American Turners, pioneers in physical fitness.” Indiana German Heritage Society Newsletter, vol. 17, no. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 2-3.
Abstract: Overview of the Turnverein movement.
MKI Periodicals
Turners/ Physical education
Reichmann, Eberhard, and Ruth Reichmann. “Elderhostels: Teaching and Learning with Americans of German Descent.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 63-66.
Abstract: This report shows structure and materials for German- Americana in the “Elderhostel,” an enjoyable educational adventure for older people, mostly Americans of German descent and the grandparents of today’s students. Topics include customs, beliefs, traditions, genealogy as well as family and community history.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Teaching
Reichmann, Eberhard, and Ruth Reichmann. “The European origins of German-American diversity.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 44th Report, 2000, pp. 17-31.
Abstract: This article focuses on tribal and geographic origins and linguistic differences between German-speaking regions. It considers the dynastic-political and religious influences at work in various areas and looks at customs and traditions in various locales, considering particularly the question of how certain folkways were transferred from the Old to the New World.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans/ Cultural differences/ Ethnic identity
Reichmann, Eberhard, and Ruth Reichmann. “German-American Studies: A Research Field in Search of a Classroom.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 3, 1988, pp. 289-296.
Abstract: This article offers theoretical and pedagogical considerations to encourage teachers to include German-American Studies in their classrooms. The article first defines German-American studies. It then discusses the contributions which German-American studies can make to education in the areas of multiculturalism and local history. The article also offers suggestions on how to move from research to teaching.
MKI P94-38
German-American Studies/ Education
Reichmann, Felix. “German Printing in Maryland, A Check List 1768-1950.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 27th Report, 1950, pp. 9-70.
MKI Periodicals / SHS F 190 .G3 S6
Maryland/ German-American press
Reichmann, Felix. “The Subject Union Catalogue Americana Germanica.” School and Society, vol. 58, no. 1506, 1943, pp. 372-274.
Notes: Reprint.
MKI P84-144
German Americana/ Catalogs
Reichmann, Ruth. “The Germans in Indiana: Glimpses at Hoosier German history.” Indiana German Heritage Society Newsletter, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 3-6.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Indiana/ History/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)
Reichmann, Ruth, and others. “Guidelines for the introduction of German-American studies at various educational levels.” Schatzkammer, vol. 21, no. Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 91-101.
Notes: Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte.
P2001-36
German-American Studies/ Education
Reigart, K. A. Butch. “Reverend Howard J. Frey’s Pennsylvania German Service at Swamps Community Chapel in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 29 September 1984.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 27-45.
Notes: The Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Abstract: Provides a transcription and translation of the sermon. “[J]udging from the sound and variety of [Frey’s] dialect speech, [his roots] lay to the east of the Susquehanna. . . . [N]ote the purposeful, instructive inclusion of the dialect names of many birds, trees, and wild plants.”
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects
Reim, C. G. Zur Einweihung des Neuen Hauses von Sebastian Weimar, State Road Cooley, La Crosse Co., Wisconsin, am 29. October 1871. (Dedication of Sebastian Weimar’s new house). La Crosse, Wis.: 1871. 1 p.
Notes: 2 photocopies.
Abstract: A poem to commemorate the new home of Sebastian Weimar. Weimar was married to Rosina Schwab (Oct. 17, 1836-1901) [see FH Schwab, P2000-8], who immigrated to the United States in 1858 and settled in La Crosse in 1864. Weimar operated a brick works in La Crosse, and the house mentioned in this poem was built from his own bricks. Reim, the author of the poem, was pastor of the German Lutheran Church.
MKI P2004-21
Poetry/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ La Crosse (Wis.)/ Home
Reimer, Gerhard. “Deutsch als Muttersprache unter den Mennoniten in Indiana.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 17-22.
Abstract: This article deals with the present state of the German language among the Mennonite communities in Indiana.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)
Reimer, Gerhard. “Deutsche Sprache unter den Amischen des Mittelwesten.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 191-197.
Abstract: This article deals with the present state of the German language among the Old Order Amish in the Midwest.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)/ Amish
Rein, Kurt. “Deutsche Minderheiten taueferischen Ursprungs im Mittelwesten der USA .” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 173-189.
Abstract: This article describes Anabaptist sects (Amana, Mennonites, Hutterites) of German origin in the Midwest.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)
Reisser, Craig Thomas. “Polish Flats, Saloons, Chicken Coops, and Housemoving; House Form and Neighborhood Arrangement in the Evolution of Northeast Milwaukee’s Immigrant Landscape, 1885-1916. Dissertation.” Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 171 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988.
Abstract: This is a geographical study centered around maps and photographs which through landscape analysis examines housing and neighborhood development in northeast Milwaukee from 1885 to 1916. The Polish immigrant community’s impact on the architecture of homes and buildings is studied and compared with adjoining German and “Yankee” neighborhoods. Several aspects of neighborhood arrangement were applied to the hypothesis: 1) The Slavs followed folk architecture by enlarging or otherwise modifying residential structures to provide for additional dwelling units; 2) Rear houses fronting on alleys are common; 3) Structures relating to small-scale farming, gardening and animal and poultry husbandry can be identified; 4) Many structures combine commercial and residential functions (e.g. “storefront residences” or “shop houses”); and 5) In Polish neighborhoods one finds an occasional street of larger, more valuable residences with even setbacks and a general absence of taverns.
MKI dissertations
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Immigrants/ Settlements/ Architecture/ Horticulture & Gardening/ Farming.
Reiterer, Barbara. “Traveling Between Worlds: Gender, Exile, and the Framing of Applied Social Science Careers in Europe and the United States, 1940-1980.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 59-60.
Notes: GHI Research.
Abstract: Report on a research project. “This dissertation focuses on Austrian and German women emigres, such as Gisela Konopka from Germany and the Viennese social worker Elsa Leichter, who fled from the National Socialists and settled in the United States, where they pursued careers as social work professionals. My project investigates these women’s lives and careers and traces their professional networks as they related to the social, professional, and academic culture of the United States at a time when the social sciences were expanding greatly and gaining significant public authority.”
MKI Periodicals
20th century/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Women/ Social science/ Konopka, Gisela (Peiper), 1910-2003/ Jews/ Leichter, Elsa (Schweiger), 1905-1997
Reitz, Charles. “Marcuse in America — Exile As Educator: Deprovincializing One-Dimensional Culture in the U.S.A.” 22nd Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies .
Abstract: Nearly 100 years after the 1848 German Revolution and the Frankfurt Assembly, Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution (1941) brought the critical social theory of the twentieth century Frankfurt School to the USA, and with it, the spark that would become the New Left and student movements here during the 1960s and 1970s. The German-American dimension in the development of Marcuse’s critical theory can be especially well illumined by focusing on the theme “exile as educator,” stressing Marcuse’s emphasis on the intellectual’s emancipatory role as outsider.
MKI P98-20.
Philosophy/ Culture/ United States/ Exile/ Cultural influence.
Reitz, Charles. “Socialist Turners of New York City, 1853: Archival Materials Warrant Further Research.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 95-106.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “A vivid political episode in the history of the German-American Turner Movement” has come to light “since the acquisition of the archive of the Sozialistischer Turnerbund of New York City by the Max Kade German-American Studies Center of the University of Kansas in October 2009. This affair offers a clear indication of the German-American solidarity displayed by the New York City Turners toward the multidimensional European socialist/communist movement in a significant 1853 event. Greater familiarity with this matter will also suggest continuities with radical German-American leadership in U.S. labor history and further topics for research.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — New York/ Turners/ Societies, etc./ Socialism/ Labor and laboring classes/ 19th century
Reitz, Phares O. “Life on a Pennsylvania German Farm.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2015 , p. 3.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: The author lived on a farm in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, from his birth in 1917 until he left to go to college in 1932.
MKI Periodicals
Farm life/ Pennsylvania Dutch/ Pennsylvania Germans/ Autobiography/ 20th century
Reitz, Phares O. “Niemand hot sei Lewe Gott gsehne.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 2006, pp. 15-16.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Suedberg Church of God, Pine Grove, Penn., Sept. 18, 2005.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Reitz, Phares Oscar. “An Autobiography of Phares Oscar Reitz.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 19-20, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Reverend Phares Reitz’s ancestors came to America in 1751 from Floersbach, near Gelnshausen, northeast of Frankfurt am Main. He grew up speaking Pennsylvania German. Includes a listing of Grundsau Lodges and Versammlings where Reitz has spoken.
MKI Periodicals
Autobiography/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs
Reitz, Phares Oscar. “Die Red an der Siwwede Pennsilfaanische Deitsche Versammling von West Baricks Kaundi.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 19-20, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Transcript of a speech in Pennsylvania German given by Reitz on October 4, 1986.
MKI Periodicals
Autobiography/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs
Reitz, Phares Oscar. “Some Pennsylvania German Children’s Rhymes.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 21-22.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: In Pennsylvania German only.
MKI Periodicals
Autobiography/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Children’s poetry
Reitz, Phares Oscar, and Clarence W. Reitz. “Es Deitsch A B C.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 22-23, ill.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: With English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Autobiography/ Pennsylvania-German dialect / Pennsylvania Dutch — Social life and customs/ Children’s poetry
Reitzel, Robert. “A Stranger in One’s Own House.” Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 4-5, ill.
Notes: Translated by Cora Lee Kluge.
Abstract: Translation of an article Reitzel published in Der arme Teufel (vol. 6, no. 8, 18 January 1890) in which he examines “the feelings of displacement and lost homeland that have troubled many immigrants.”
MKI Periodicals
Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898/ United States, Foreign opinion — German
Remp Family Documents and Photographs.
Contents:
Examination certificate, possibly associated with a test to become a tailor, dated 14 December 1867 for Gottfried Richard Remp, born in Greifenberg — Death notice for a John Tiedchen[?] who was interred in Baw[?] cemetery on 7 Jan. 1871 [card issued by Moses John Hickman, Furnishing Undertaker, 1. Princes Place, Corner of Morgan Street Commercial Road, and 111, Corner of William Street, Cannon Street Road, St. George’s East] — Old German handwriting on a piece of paper dated 4 April 1872 for Albert Gottfried Richard Remp in Hütten, signed in Neustettin, and apparently regarding the military — Ausmusterungs-Schein [note declaring one unfit for military duty] dated 1872 for Albert Gottfried Richard Remp (born 2[?] August 1849 — Old German handwriting on a stamped piece of paper dated 18 July 1873 for Reinhold Remp — German passport (Reise-Pass for the Koenigreich Preussen) provided on 1 May 1873 (also dated 1 May 1872 on second page) to the journeyman tailor (Schneidergesel) Albert Gottfried Richard Remp from Hütten (Kreis Neustettin), allowing him to travel to America at the age of 22 — German passport (Reise-Pass for the Koenigreich Preussen) provided on 18 July 1874 (also dated 18 July 1873 on second page) to the sailor (Matrose) Reinhold Remp from Hütten (Kreis Neustettin), allowing him to travel to America at the age of 18 — Letter in English from Geo. R. Pattison[?] to Henry Remp dated June 28, 1876 regarding a threatening letter for payment on a note — Small book with Remp on cover and three pages of accounting figures apparently for labor provided, dated 1878 — Final certificate of naturalization issued in the State of Minnesota, County of Winona to Reynold Remp on 11 October 1880 — Quit-Claim Deed provided to R. Remp for a lot in Dresbach (Winona County, Minn.) on 1 Dec. 1882 — Commission of postmaster for the post office at Dresbach (Winona County, Minn.) for Reynold Remp, dated 20 August 1883 and signed by Walter Q. Gresham, Postmaster General — Certificate of sale, 4 May 1891, for parcel of land in the Village of Dresbach (Winona County, Minn.), sold to R. Remp and signed by James O’Brien, County Auditor — Tax receipt from the County Treasurer’s Office, Winona County, Minn. for R. Remp, 26 May 1896 — A letter from the Deposit Bank and Trust Company of Winona, Minnesota dated 6 May 1924 and written to Reynold Remp concerning the interest on the Ole O. Hopperstad mortgage — Tax receipt from the County Treasurer’s Office, Winona County, Minn. for Reynold Remp, 1944.
12 photographs, some indicating photographic studios. Three photographs depict children, three depict men, five depict women, and one is of a family. Studio information: F. W. Mould, Photographers, 413 S. Third St., La Crosse, Wis. — Meason, 128 North Third St., La Crosse, Wis. — Pryor, La Crosse, Wis. — Myers, 116 South Fourth St., La Crosse, Wis. — Curtis Artistic Photography, Madison, Wis. (Vilas House Block, Take Elevator).
Donated by Roberta Mackin of Billings, Montana; sent to MKI from Western Heritage Center in Billings, Montana.
Remus, William. “The Pomeranian Potato Famine.” Die Pommerschen Leute, vol. 39, no. 3, Fall 2016, pp. 5-6.
Notes: Reference: Mann, Charles C. “Unicovering the new World Columbus Created” vintage Press, 2011.
Abstract: Brief summary of the adoption of potato agriculture in Europe and Pomerania and the disaster of its subsequent failure from blight and subsequent failures of rye and wheat crops which led to emigration to the US and Canada.
MKI Periodicals
Pomerania — Emigration and immigration/ History/ Agriculture
Renn, Erin McCawley. “Edward Kemper’s World: the Architecture and Built Landscape of a 19th-Century German American Community.” Der Maibaum (Deutschheim Association Journal), vol. 26, no. 1, Summer 2017, pp. 4-11, ill.
Abstract: One of the book’s editors shares information and photos from the 1998 University of Missouri Press publication, “Little Germany on the Missouri: the Photographs of Edward J. Kemper, 1895-1920.”
MKI Periodicals (Miscellaneous)
Kemper, Edward J./ German Americans — Missouri — Hermann — History — Pictorial works.
Renner, Joseph. Gaudeamus. Sammlung froehlicher Lieder. New York, N.Y.: Pustet, 1891.
MKI P92-43
PIA/ Songs
Renner, Rolf Guenter. “Das eigene im Anderen: zur Psychologischen Inschrift von Charles Sealsfields Texten,” In The life and works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793-1864. Charlotte L. Brancaforte, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. 38-56.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism
Renner, Rolf Guenter. “Transatlantische Landschaften. Zum Bild der Neuen Welt bei Charles Sealsfield.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 1, 1987, pp. 7-49.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Texas/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ The United States in literature
Renz, Byron B. “German-Language Broadcasting in Cincinnati, Ohio: 1929-1984.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 167-188.
Abstract: Renz’ article discusses the discontinuous history of German-language broadcasting in Cincinnati, dividing the time span between 1929 and 1984 into three segments: 1) pre-World War II, 1929-1938; 2) the war and post-war period, mid-1943-1955; and 3) the modern period, 1961 until the date of the article. It also describes the programming and listenership.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Ohio/ Language, German (US)/ World War, 1939-1945/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Newspapers
Renzing, Ruediger. “Zur Taetigkeit der “Commissioners for Settling the Poor Distressed Palatines in Ireland” in den Jahren 1709-1713. Ein Beitrag zur Wanderungsgeschichte der “Pfaelzer”.” In Pfaelzer-Palatines: Beitraege zur pfaelzischen Ein-und Auswanderung sowie zur Volkskunde und Mundartforschung der Pfalz und der Ziellaender pfaelzischer Auswanderer im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Karl Scherer, ed. Kaiserleutern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981, pp. 33-51.
MKI DD 801 .P45 P4
Palatines/ Emigration and immigration
Repp, Arthur C. “Daughters of Serbin, 1870-1905: History of the Lutheran Churches at Fedor and Warda, Texas.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, 1948, pp. 49-67.
Abstract: Wends and Germans
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Lutheran Church
Reppmann, Joachim. “A New Holstein: History of acculturation.”
Notes: Manuscript.
Abstract: The present investigation sought to clarify whether and in what manner a compact settlement of countrymen in the U.S. determined the acculturation process. The results show that New Holsteiners did not make conscious efforts to retain their Germaness. The settlers had their children learn English early in school, and often began on their own to pick up the new language, which created the foundation for continued assimilation.
MKI P98-49
New Holstein (Wis.)/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Assimilation
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Der Raskel is heemkumme.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 8-9.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at New Jerusalem UCC [Lenhartsville, Penn.], in 2000 by Parre Merrill Q. Ressler.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Die Voreldre Ihre Glaawe: Die Zwee Hunnert Fuffzichscht Yaahresfescht vun die Zion’s Ludderische Gemee un die Vattsischscht Yaahresfescht vun dem Gebei das heitesdaags do schteht = The Faith of the Ancestors: The 250th Anniversary of Zion’s Lutheran Congregation and the 40th Anniversary of the Present Building.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 13-16.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given by Rev. Merrill Q. Ressler on April 19, 2009, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Finf Kanne Welschkann.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 12-14.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at New Schaefferstown, Nov. 21, 2004, and at St. Paul’s (Smoke) Church, Nov. 20, 2005.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “In die Schof Benn.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Fall 2007-Winter 2009, pp. 1-3.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Fleetwood, Nov. 14, 2004.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Iwwer En Mauer Schpringe = Jumping Over a Wall.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, Fall 2011, pp. 4-7.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Frieden’s Church, Shartlesville, Penn., in 2002 and at St. John’s in Fogelsville, Penn., in 2003 by Parre Merrill Q. Ressler, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Mir Misse Bricke Baue.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 9-11.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at St. Paul’s Lutheran, Fleetwood, Frieden’s Church, Shartlesville, and the Dreibelbis Family Reunion by Parre Merrill Q. Ressler.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Mit Aadler Fliggel.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Summer 2009, pp. 4-5.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Friedens Karrich, Shartlesville, Penn., Oct. 26, 2008.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Was Saagt’s Datt?” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 13-15.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at St. Paul’s Lutheran in Fleetwood, Penn., on Nov. 12, 2006.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Wer Hot Mich aagereggt? = Who Touched Me?” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, Fall 2011, pp. 8-10.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Provides a Pennsylvania German dialect sermon given at Frieden’s Church, Shartlesville, Penn., in 2009 by Parre Merrill Q. Ressler, along with an English translation.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sermons/ Religion
Ressler, Merrill Q. “Wie Die Kuh Im Gaarde Waar =When the Cow Was In the Garden.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 11-15.
Notes: Millersville University.
Abstract: Recollection of an incident from his young childhood, presented in both Pennsyvlania Dutch and English by Parre Merrill Q. Ressler.
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Childhood
Reuss, Henry S. “Reflections of a Wisconsin Congressman of German Descent.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, no. 17-22, 1984.
Abstract: Reuss’ article discusses his heritage and his own sense of an ethnic identity.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Wisconsin/ Biographies/ Ethnic identity/ Culture
Reymann, G. D. Gottlob Daniel. Reymann’s Special-Karte [Central European Maps]. Glogau [Poland]: Verlag von C. Flemming, 1832-1870. 1 compact disc.
Notes: G. D. Reymann’s topographischer Special-Karte von Central Europa fortgesetzt durch C. W. v. Oesfeld und F. Handtke. Scale: 1:200,000. Reymann was a military cartographer who lived from 1759 to 1837. PDF on CD donated by Martin W. Johnson.
Abstract: PDF on compact disc of detailed maps covering most of East and West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, northeast France, parts of Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and former Baltic states. Includes index of sheet names, index of place names used as map title (with modern equivalents where appropriate), and legend.
MKI P2008-12
Maps/ Europe/ 19th century
Rhegius, Urban. Disputation ueber Wiederherstellung des Reiches Israel wider alle Chliliasten aller Zeiten. C. J. Hermann Fick, Uebersetzer. Hermannsburg: s.n., 1860.
Notes: Religion; German-American author; Gedruckt auf Kosten des Uebersetzers
MKI P88-23
Religious works/ Theological/ Reformation
Rice, Evie Eymann. “America-‘Land of Milk and Honey’ [Review of News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home].” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 19, no. 4, Apr./May/June 2002, pp. 151-154.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Rice, Evie Eymann. “Finding John Meyer in a Haystack.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 21, no. 3, Jan./Feb./Mar. 2004, pp. 103-107, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Describes a fifteen-year search for an ancestor in Bavaria with the all-too-common name of Johann Meyer. After some false leads, many letters to Germany, and some kindness from strangers, the author was able to meet relatives in Unternschreez, Bavaria. Includes suggestions for preparing a take-along history when visiting newly-found German relatives.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Genealogy/ Unternschreez, Bavaria
Richard, George. “Opening of Goethe House, Inc. of Milwaukee.” Wisconsin Academy Review, vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 1961, pp. 30.
MKI Periodicals
Societies, etc.
Richards-Wilson, Stephani. “Klaus Mann: German-American Veteran in the Pursuit of a Pan-European Peace.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 71-86.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Having survived two world wars as a German citizen and later as an American soldier, Klaus Mann experienced first-hand the horrors of war and the fragility of peace on the cusp of the Cold War. he was well qualified and inherently well versed to postulate how best to pursue peace from various vantage points throughout his life, which he ended in 1949 at the age of 42. Klaus Mann was a prolific journalist, novelist, essayist, and playwright, and much has been written about his famous family and their contributions to the literary world. Mann’s active pursuit of peace and a united Europe however, is often overshadowed by the traumatic events of his life that inspired many of his works.”
MKI Periodicals
Mann, Klaus, 1909-1949/ 20th century/ Literature, German/ Literature, German-American
Richardson, John. “Albert Bloch: An annotated bibliography.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 31, 1996, pp. 167-204.
Abstract: Albert Bloch, 1882-1961 was both an artist and a writer; short biography and annotated bibliography of his works.
MKI periodicals
Bibliographies/ Artists/ German Americans
Richter, August. “Vor hundert Jahren. Eine fahrt von Newport, das demals gegruendet wurde, nach Fort Steuben bei Louisville auf der Nordseite des Ohio. Aus dem Reisejournal eines Herrenhuter Missionaers.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 2, no. 2, 1902, pp. 63-65.
Notes: “Mitgetheilt von Dr. Aug. Richter–Davenport.”
Abstract: “Es ist bekannt, dass zahlreiche Deutsche zu den ersten Ansiedlern im Ohiothale gehoerten, aber Aufzeichnungen in deutscher Sprache sind doch nur spaerlich vorhanden. Um so interessanter erscheint der Inhalt eines von Johann Gottlieb Heckewalder von der Bruedergemeinde zu Bethlehem in Pennsylvanien gefuehrten Reisejournals, in welchem der Herrenhuter einen genauen Bericht ueber eine im Juni und Juli 1792 von ihm unternommene Reise von Bethlehem nach dem Posten St. Vincent am Wabashflusse erstattet…”
MKI Periodicals
Travel in literature/ Ohio/ America in German literature
Richter, August P. “Emil Geisler, Davenport [Nachruf].” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 11, 1911, pp. 56-59.
MKI Periodicals
Obituaries/ Geisler, Emil, 1828-1910
Richter, Gregor. “Der amerikanische Unabhaengigkeitskrieg–Suedwestdeutsche in beiden Lagern.” In USA und Baden-Wuerttemberg in ihren geschichtlichen Beziehungen. 1976, pp. 23-27.
Abstract: Die Geschichte suedwestdeutscher Maenner, die auf den Strassen entfuehrt und nach Amerika als Soldaten verkauft wurden, dort blieben oder sich den republikanischen Truppen anschlossen.
MKI P86-98 / SHS Pam 79-3568
Revolution, 1775-1783/ Soldiers/ Germans
Richter, Gustav. Der nordamerikanische Freistaat Wisconsin. Wesel: J. Bagel, 1846. 32 pp.
Notes: Mit einer Flurkarte nach den neuesten Vermessungen; MKI owns photocopy only; donated by William Thiel and Johannes Strohschänk, May 2003; photocopy is a bit dark; original is in Historical Society Library Rare Book Collection, F585 R53 1849
Abstract: A description of the climate and weather conditions, natural and animal resources, economy, and Native populations in Wisconsin; includes “Constitution des Staats Wisconsin,” pp.16-32. Photocopy only in MKI collection; original is in Historical Society Library Rare Book Collection.
MKI P2003-14
Immigrants, German/ Wisconsin/ Travel/ Ecology/ Native Americans
Richter, Klaus. “Quellen des Hamburger Staatsarchivs zur Ueberseewanderung von Schleswig-Holsteinern im 19. Jahrhundert.” In Die deutsche und skandinavische Amerikaauswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Kai Detlev Sievers, ed. 1981, pp. 67-72.
Abstract: “Spezielle Sachakten zur Auswanderung von Schleswig-Holsteinern ueber den Hamburger Hafen nach Uebersee sind im Staatsarchiv Hamburg nicht vorhanden, so dass Forscher im wesentlichen auf die dortigen Gruppen von Archivalien und Amtsdrucksachen zur Auswanderung allgemein angewiesen sind, in denen sich auch Material zum hier interessierenden Thema findet. Dieses setzt in groesserem Umfang erst ab 1850 mit der Gruendung des privaten “Hamburger Vereins zum Schutze von Auswanderern” ein, vor allem ab 1855, als eine besondere staatliche Behoerde fuer Auswanderungsangelegenheiten dessen Funktion uebernommen hatte, die Deputation fuer das Auswandererwesen.”
MKI P87-84 / MEM E 184 .G3 D54 1981
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration / Schleswig-Holstein/ Archives/ 19th century
Riedel, Walter E. “Das literarische Kanadabild: Ein Vergleich zu ausgewaehlten Werken von Walter Bauer und Henry Beissel.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 183-197.
Abstract: This article compares the image of Canada found in select works by Walter Bauer and Henry Beissel. Personal experiences as well as influences by modern writers and painters combine to shape Bauer’s image of Canada essentially into a myth of hope and longing, akin to the archetypal search for the promised land. Although Beissel consciously avoids certain conventional literary views to Canada, his central image of ever recurring natural cycles is also a mythopoeic one.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Literature, German (Canada)/ Canada
Riedel, Walter E. “Exiled in Canada: Literary and Related Forms of Cultural Life in the Internment Camps.” In Yearbook of German-American Studies, 1989, pp. 73-88.
Abstract: This study examines writings and drawings of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria who had sought refuge or asylum in Great Britain before WWII, but were interned as enemy aliens after the outbreak of hostilities. Nearly 3,000 of them were later transferred to Canadian camps in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. Literature, or, more generally, intellectual activity of a cultural nature, may be seen as having a specific function for the exiles or internees. This study shows the functional value of this artistic expression in the internees’ coming to terms with their internment.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1939-1945/ Canada/ Prisoners of war/ Jews/ Culture
Riedel, Walter E. “Hinter kanadischem Stacheldraht: Erinnerung von drei deutschen Kriegsgefangenen an ihre Gefangenschaft. Ausschnitte aus einem Tonband.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. IX, 1986, pp. 85-96.
Abstract: This article presents excerpts from the taped recollections of three former German prisoners of war about their stay in various Canadian camps, introduced by a critical survey of the extant literature on the experiences of German POWs in Canada.
MKI Periodicals
Prisoners of war/ Canada/ World War, 1939-1945/ Germans
Riedesel, Paul, and Susan Firestone. “Vor dem Gesetz [Johann Philipp Knoche aus Missouri in Wunderthausen].” Wittgenstein. Blaetter des Wittgensteiner Heimatvereins e.V., vol. 103, no. Band 79, Heft 2, [August 2015], pp. 95-104.
Notes: Author Riedesel is a descendent of Wunderthausen emigrants. Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Johann Philipp Knoche, a newly naturalized U.S. citizen, returned in 1840 to his family in Wunderthausen (now part of Bad Berleburg in the county of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen) to encourage and help them emigrate as well. Prussian law and diplomatic relations between Prussia and the United States at that time did not, however, exempt him, even as a U.S. citizen, from Prussian military service, which he had avoided when emigrating already in 1834.
P2015-12
Wittgenstein (Region in Germany)/ Military service/ Prussia / German Americans — Missouri
Riemer, Shirley. “A Chronology of Postal Service between Germany and the United States.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 22, no. 4, Apr./May/June 2005, pp. 156-157, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society. Sources: Three articles by Richard B. Graham from Linn’s Stamp News, 1998.
Abstract: Includes “A letter’s journey from Ulm, Wuerttemberg, to Ohio in 1851” and “New in 1870: The postcard!”
MKI Periodicals
Letters/ 19th century
Riemer, Shirley J. “It Was the ‘Patriots’ vs. the ‘Slackers’: World War I Fear and Hysteria, Anchored, It Seemed, on ‘Liberty Cabbage’.” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 24, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2006, pp. 28-32, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: Discusses “politically correct” name changes for Sauerkraut, German shepherds, dachsunds, and German measles; effects on German-language newspapers; the lynching of Robert Prager, a German coal miner in Collinsville, Illinois; other examples of “war hysteria, terrorism, intimidation”; and seditions laws in America.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Anti-German sentiment
Riemer, Shirley J. “Sleep, baby, sleep: The cradles, cradle-songs, and bedtime prayers that lulled your German ancestors to sleep.” Der Blumenbaum, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, vol. 18, no. 4, Apr./May/June 2001, pp. 150-164.
Notes: Lullabies and prayers appear in both German and English.
Abstract: Traditional lullabies, those with “nonsensical and otherwise curious lyrics,” “politically-descriptive lullabies,” childhood prayers, and information on cradles, including “cradle idioms” in the German language.
MKI Periodicals
Culture/ Folk songs, German/ Songs/ Material culture
Riggle, H. M. Der Sabbath. Moundsville, W. Va.: Gospel Trumpet Co., n.d. 32 pp.
Notes: Religion; L:GER
MKI P89-37
PIA/ Religious works
Riley, Anthony W. “The Case of Greve/Grove: The European Roots of a Canadian Writer.” In The Old World and The New. Walter E. Riedel, ed., 1984, pp. 37-58.
Abstract: A brief biography of the German-Canadian writer Felix Paul Greve (later called Frederick Philip Grove), who kept his German origin a secret for many years.
MKI/MEM PR 9184.6 .O55 1984
Literature, German (Canada)/ German Canadians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)
Riley, Anthony W. “Christentum und Revolution. Zu Alfred Doeblins Romanzyklus “November 1918″.” In Leben im Exil. Wolfgang Fruehwald and Wolfgang Schieder, hrsg., 1981, pp. 91-102.
MKI DD 119.3 .L42
Fiction/ Literary criticism
Riley, Helene M. Kastinger. “Deutsche Einwanderer in South Carolina vor, waehrend und nach dem amerikanischen Buergerkrieg: Ein Beitrag zur deutsch-amerikanischen Kulturgeschichte.” In Die Auswanderung nach Nordamerika aus den Regionen des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz. Werner Kremp and Roland Paul, eds. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002, pp. 1-20.
MKI E 184 .P3 A87 2002
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ South Carolina/ 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Rinke, Stefan H. “Clio in exile: The historiography of Alfred Vagts.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 267-283.
Abstract: Rinke’s article discusses Alfred Vagts’ work as a prime example of German-American historiography. It concentrates on two fields of his scholarship: the relationship between economics and politics, especially during the era of imperialism; and military history.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ History/ Research
Riordan, Dan. “Finding Jacob Reiser.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 14-20.
Abstract: Details the author’s extensive genealogical research which identified his third great-grandfather, Jacob Reiser, who had been born in Rommelsbach, Wuerttemberg, and had emigrated in 1847 with his second wife Anne Marie Schaefer and her daughters from the village of Allscheid,Vulkaneifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, a town that no longer exists as all of its inhabitants emigrated in 1852. Jacob Reiser purchased 40 acres in Saukville Township, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, in 1849.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Genealogy/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Ozaukee County/ Research
Rippley, La Vern ed. “What Were Steerage Passengers Thinking As They Set Off for America?” Der Blumenbaum, vol. 21, no. 1, July/Aug./Sept. 2003, pp. 12-14, ill.
Notes: Sacramento German Genealogy Society.
Abstract: An excerpt from an article by Josiah Flynt (“The German and the German-American”), originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896, describing the journey by ship from Bremerhaven to New York.
MKI Periodicals
Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Ships/ 19th century/ Personal narratives/ Atlantic crossing
Rippley, La Vern J. “Bibliography for the teaching of German-Americana: Selected and annonated.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 119-142.
Abstract: The bibliography offered here is a response to a request for bibliographic information, which teachers could use in classes at various levels. It is by no means exhaustive, nor even comprehensive of any area. The author wishes to stress that teaching the German-American heritage must be an interdisciplinary effort!
MKI Periodicals
German-American Studies/ Teaching/ Bibliographies
Rippley, La Vern J. “Children’s Hero, Dr. Seuss Receives U.S. 37-Cent Stamp Recognition.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 25, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 14-15, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Theodor Seuss Geisel, whose father emigrated from Muehlhausen, Baden, in 1867.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies/ Geisel, Theodor Seuss/ German Americans — Biography/ Children’s literature
Rippley, La Vern J. The Columbus Germans. Reprint Edition 1998. Indianapolis, Ind.: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1968. 45 pp.
Notes: “Volume 12.”
Abstract: An account of Germans in Columbus, Ohio, covering their press, organizations and clubs, schools, churches, and politics.
MKI P2000-6
German Americans — Ohio/ Ohio/ Cultural contribution
Rippley, La Vern J. “A Course in German-American Studies for Upper-Level Undergraduate Students of German.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 31-37.
Abstract: This German-American Studies course taught in German offers information about the broad spectrum of German
language and German immigrant life in the U.S. It covers such topics as the Forty-eighters, labor movement leaders, Anabaptists, Russian Germans, Danube Swabians, and others. Highlighted in addition are the roles played by religion, bilingual schools, German publishing, and the contributions of major German personalities in politics, the arts, and industry. Concepts of chain migration, assimilation, and a multi-ethnic America provide the theoretical background of the subject matter.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Teaching
Rippley, La Vern J. “Courses of Study in the Field of German-Americans at Institutions of Higher Learning in the United States.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil II Regionale und funktionale Aspekte. Heinz Kloss, editor. (Deutsche Sprache in Europa und Uebersee; Berichte und Forschungen, editors Heinz Kloss, Josef Gerighausen, Gerhard Jakob, Gottfried Kolde, and Hans-Peter Krueger, vol. 10.) Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1985, pp. 241-244.
Abstract: Article discusses the place of German-American Studies in American Universities. The author lists a great number of professors who have offered courses in German-American Studies in the past.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil II
Language, German (US)/ Education
Rippley, La Vern J. “Deutsche Sprache in Minnesota.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 77-89.
Abstract: This article deals with the history present state of the German Language in Minnesota.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)
Rippley, La Vern J. “German-American Banking in Minnesota.” A Heritage Fulfilled: German-Americans: Die Erfuellte Herkunft. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1984, pp. 94-115.
Abstract: Rippley’s paper discusses German-American contributions to the shaping of economic policy in the U.S., in particular Minnesota. It also provides a history of banking in the state, focusing on St. Paul. Included is a brief biography of List as well as several illustrations and photographs and a table indicating the names, locations, dates of closing and causes of discontinuance of German State Banks in Minnesota.
MKI F615 G3 H48 1984
German Americans — Minnesota/ Ethnic identity/ Assimilation/ Economic aspects/ Pennsylvania/ Biographies
Rippley, La Vern J. “The German-American Normal Schools.” In Germanica-Americana 1976. Erich A. Albrecht, and J. Anthony Burzle, eds., 1977, pp. 63-71.
Abstract: Rippley’s article argues against the claim that German-language instruction in the U.S. was established to advance “Germandom,” distinguishes between “Americanization” and “Anglicanization,” and then states that the goal of the schools was to prevent the Anglicanization but not the Americanization of German immigrants.
MKI P87-163
Teaching/ Schools/ Languages in contact/ Religion/ Language, German (US)/ Ethnic identity
Rippley, La Vern J. “The German-Americans: A Course Proposal.” Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. 9, no. 2, 1976, pp. 24-30.
MKI P86-123 / MEM AP .U6137
German-American Studies/ Teaching
Rippley, La Vern J. “The German Element of West Central Ohio.” German-American Studies: A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy, vol. 8, 1974, pp. 89-105.
MKI / SHS E 184. G3 G315
German Americans — Ohio/ History
Rippley, La Vern J. “German Theatre in Columbus, Ohio.” German-American Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 , 1970, pp. 78-100.
Abstract: Rippley’s article discusses the shift of German cultural and intellectual interests in nineteenth century Ohio to include not only churches, musical bands, millitary companies, singing societies and politics, but also theater. He then goes on to describe the history of German theater in Columbus, drawing from newspaper reviews.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
German Americans — Ohio/ History/ 19th century/ Arts / Newspapers, German-American
Rippley, La Vern J. “Imperial German socialism in the life and work of UAW president Walter Phillip Reuther.” Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, vol. 42nd Report, 1993, pp. 43-58.
Abstract: Gives history of the German labor movement and socialism, describing Reuther’s involvement and his presidency of the United Automobile Workers.
MKI Periodicals
Socialism/ Labor movement/ Labor and laboring classes/ German Americans
Rippley, La Vern J. “Monumentality: How Post-1871 Germans in the United States Expressed Their Ethnicity.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 139-153.
Abstract: “Examines the ideological mindset that resulted from the German victory over the French at Sedan in September 1870. . . . The stunning success of the victory. . .and the founding of the German Empire in January 1871 caused Germans everywhere to exude a deeply felt pride in nationhood, exuberance for chauvinistic myths, fervor for Fatherland-based symbols, and jingoistic enthusiasm for mementos, monuments, mausoleums and megaliths. . . . Our focus in this essay is concentrated in but not restricted to, the Midwest, meaning the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, and to a lesser extent Ohio and Indiana.”
MKI Periodicals
Architecture/ Middle West/ Ethnic identity/ Breweries/ German Americans — Minnesota/ Churches/ Monuments
Rippley, La Vern J. “Official Action by Wisconsin to Recruit Immigrants, 1850-1890.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 185-196.
Abstract: Rippley’s article discusses the various attempts made by Wisconsin to encourage emigration from the North European countries, especially Germany. It discusses the franchisement of male immigrants over the age of 21 and the activities of the “Commissioner of Emigration.”
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Immigrants, German/ Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ 19th century
Rippley, La Vern J. “Patterns and Marks of German Settlement in Minnesota.” A Heritage Deferred: The German-Americans in Minnesota. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn: Concordia College, 1981, pp. 49-66.
Abstract: Rippley’s paper discusses the founding of New Ulm as well as other smaller communities. It also discusses the various architectural styles found in German communities, including farms, breweries, theaters, meeting houses and monuments.
MKI F615 G3 H47 1981.
German Americans — Minnesota/ Religion/ Schools/ Architecture/ Ethnic identity/ Farming/ Newspapers/ Turners/ Breweries/ Monuments.
Rippley, La Vern J. “Review of Der Ruf der Neuen Welt: Deutsche bauen Amerika by Victor W. von Hagen.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 186-188.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Rippley, La Vern J. “Review of Robert Henry Billigmeier’s Americans from Germany: A Study in Cultural Diversity (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1974). 189 pp.” German-American Studies, vol. 9, Spring 1975, pp. 59-61.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Book reviews
Rippley, La Vern J. “Surnames in Gramm’s History of the Germans in New Brunswick, New Jersey.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, 1978, pp. 77-79.
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy
Rippley, La Vern J. “Toward a 1993 definition of German-American studies.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 1-11.
Abstract: Cross-disciplinary by nature, the study of German immigrants in North America defies us to coin a definition with any exact precision. It concerns the causes and the process of emigration. It involves therefore much study of geography, history, linguistics, politics, sociology, religion etc. and of course family history and genealogy. However it should exclude from consideration many topics that have crept into the field for lack of a proper definition.
MKI Periodicals
German-American Studies
Rippley, La Vern J. “Two German-American Papers as “Communication Satellites.” Die Dakota Freie Presse and Die Welt-Post Preserved.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 169-181.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
Newspapers, German-American
Rippley, La Vern J. “West Germany: Economic Power — Political Power.” A Special Relationship: Germany and Minnesota, 1945-1985. Clarence A. Glasrud, editor. Moorhead, Minn.: Concordia College, 1983, pp. 24-34.
MKI E183.8 G3 S64 1983
Germany/ Economic aspects/ World War, 1939-1945/ World War, 1914-1918/ United States/ Minnesota/ German Americans
Rippley, La Vern J. “Zur sprachlichen Situation der Russlanddeutschen in den USA.” In Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten: Teil I Der Mittelwesten. Leopold Auburger, Heinz Kloss, and Heinz Rupp, editors. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1979, pp. 211-222.
Abstract: This article deals with the language situation of Russian-German immigrants, its history and present state.
MKI PF 5925.D4 Teil I
Language, German (US)
Rippley, LaVern J. “Charles McCarthy and Frederic C. Howe: Their Imperial German sources for the Wisconsin Idea in progressive politics.” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 67-81.
Notes: Monatshefte fuer deutschen Unterricht, deutsche Sprache und Literature.
Abstract: “The concept of teamwork between government, education, and social welfare based on the model of Imperial Germany was articulated by Charles McCarthy and Frederic Howe, who taught at the University of Wisconsin. They expounded the view that the borders of the university were the borders of the state, that the executive and legislative branches of government in reality enjoyed a third level, that of the University, and that their symbiosis constituted the best hope for the ideal society. This concept was envisioned as the Wisconsin Idea and resulted in the Progressive Era, championed by La Follette and Theodore Roosevelt at first, and by Franklin D. Roosevelt later.”
MKI P2001-35
Politics/ Political influence/ Germany/ United States
Rippley, LaVern J. “German-American Architecture in Michigan.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 1, Mar. 2005, pp. 6-8, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Focuses on the careers of Louis Kamper, Emil Lorch, and Albert Kahn.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Michigan/ Architecture/ Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963/ Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942/ Kamper, Louis, 1861-1953
Rippley, LaVern J. “One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Carl Schurz–May 14, 2006.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 3, Sept. 2006, pp. 19-23, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
MKI Periodicals
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906/ Biographies/ German Americans/ Germany/ History/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849/ Watertown (Wis.)/ Political activity/ Politics
Rippley, LaVern J. “The Promise of Diesel 1904-2004.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 25, no. 4, Dec. 2004, pp. 26-30, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Includes some observations, many critical, of American society made by inventor Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel when he visited in 1904 at the invitation of Adolphus Busch.
MKI Periodicals
Business & Industry/ Germans/ German Americans/ Breweries/ Busch, Adolphus
Rippley, LaVern J. “Sebastian S. Kresge and the Kresge Foundation.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 1, Mar. 2005, pp. 5-6, ill.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Biographical profile of the businessman and philanthropist.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Biographies/ Business & Industry
Rippley, LaVern J. “St. Paul for the Germans: An Affectionate Reconnaissance to Frogtown.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 20-23.
Abstract: Edited transcript of a speech given at a German Day celebration in St. Paul, Minnesota.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Minnesota/ Newspapers, German-American
Rippley, LaVern J. “Wisconsin German-Americans and World War I: Wisconsin, ‘The German-American Homefront.'” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 129-150, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: With its large percentage of German-Americans, the most German city in the country in Milwaukee, and two seemingly pro-German (or at least anti-war) politicians, Wisconsin’s position during the First World War was particularly awkward.
MKI Periodicals
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Wisconsin
Rippley, LaVern J., and Phillip Romine. “Freidenker Robert Reitzel: German-American Social Movements.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 3, Sept. 2005, pp. 20-21.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: “Reitzel’s life in America both informed and was informed by events surrounding several interrelated social and cultural movements. We must first understand Reitzel’s sociopolitical milieu in order to understand his impact on its further development, in particular two vehicles of German-American social consciousness: Turnvereine and freie Gemeinden.”
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Michigan/ Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898/ Newspapers, German-American/ Freethinkers/ German Americans — Societies, etc./ Turners/ Cultural influence/ Social influence
Ritter, Alexander. “Bei meiner Abreise nach Amerika… : Schauspieler, Journalist, Flaneur, Jude: Der unstete konservativ-liberale Geza Berger in Europa und in der German-American Community 1869-1930 : Zur internationen Theatergeschichte in der zweiten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 53, 2018, pp. 49-81 pp., ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
MKI Periodicals
Biography/ Theater & Drama/ German Americans/ Social life and customs
Ritter, Alexander. “Charles Sealsfield Berger, US-Buerger: Namensadaption, German-American Community und die defizitaere Forschungslage der Charles Sealsfield-Rezeption in den USA um 1880.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 39-59, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: “Es ist der Zusammenhang von Geza Bergers Vertrautheit mit der deutschamerikanischen Szene und vice versa, der Namensgebung seines Sohnes Charles Sealsfield Berger und der regional ausgedehnten, untereinander vernetzten Aktivitaeten der German-American Community zur Erhaltung ihrer kulturellen Identitaet im Rahmen einer eigenen Oeffentlichkeit, der Rueckschluesse auf die Rezeption Charles Sealsfields zulaesst.” Geza Berger was a German-speaking Jewish immigrant from Pressburg, Austria, who was an actor, playwright, and journalist in America.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ Literature, American/ 19th century/ Literary criticism/ Biographies/ 19th century/ America in German literature/ Berger, Geza/ German Americans/ Jews, German
Ritter, Alexander. “Charles Sealsfield: Notizen ueber die Schrittfolge einer gemeinsamen Annaehrung an den Autor,” In The life and works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793-1864. Charlotte L. Brancaforte, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. xv-xviii.
Notes: book review in yearbook of German-American studies, Vol. 30, 1995, pp. 149-150.
Abstract: An introductory paper on Sealsfield.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ Literature, American/ 19th century/ Literary criticism/ Biographies
Ritter, Alexander. “Charles Sealsfields Madonna of(f) the Trails im Roman Das Kajuetenbuch. Oder: Zur epischen Zaehmung der Frauen als Stereotype in der amerikanischen Suedstatenepik zwischen 1820 und 1850.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 91-112.
Abstract: Ritter’s article discusses the female figures of Sealfield’s epics.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Women/ Stereotypes/ Fiction
Ritter, Alexander. “Darstellung und Funktion der Landschaft in den Amerika-Romanen von Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl): Eine Studie zum Prosa-Roman der deutschen und amerikanischen Literatur in der ersten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Inaugural – Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwuerde der Hohen Philosophischen Fakultaet.” Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, 1969. 347 pp.
Notes: UMI, printed in 1988 Gedruckt (Kiel, 1970) durch Foerderung der Charles Sealsfield-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart. L:Ger ; book, in MadCat.
MKI PT 2516 .S4 Z87 1969; P87-80
Prose/ 19th century/ Literary criticism/ Fiction/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864.
Ritter, Alexander. “Das assimilierte Fremde im Balanceakt des Eigenen: Ueberlegungen zum Verhaeltnis von interkultureller Hermeneutik und Minderheitenliteraturen.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 61-73.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Ethnicity/ Culture/ Minorities
Ritter, Alexander. “Die Erfindung des Amerikaners: Zu Charles Sealsfields strategischer Inszenierung seiner Identitaet und Repraesentation als US-Buerger.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 1-15.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: “Im Hinblick auf die amerikanische Immigrationsgeschichte als einer machinery of national identification and integration sowie das Inszenieren einer Identitaet als amerikanischer Buerger und amerikanischer Schriftsteller ist Charles Sealsfield ein instruktives paradigma fuer das Immigrantenverhalten eines europaeischen Intellektuellen. Die Begruendung dafuer leitet sich her aus privaten Verfehlungen und politischer Motivation, die als Ursache der zielgerichteten Generierung einer neuen Namensidentitaet, seiner inszenierten Auftritte als Amerikaner und deren zusaetzlicher Verifizierung durch literarische Selbstdarstellung anzunehmen sind. Das damit verbundene Persoenlichkeitsprofil bedingen seine biographischen Voraussetzungen. . . . Grundlage der folgenden Ausfuehrungen sind biographische Informationen, die vom Verfasser in mehreren Dokumentationen zwischen 1999 und 2011 vorgelegt sind. Mit ihnen wird zum einen danach gefragt, welche Mittel Sealsfield funktionalisiert, seine Biographie neu zu ordnen und diese auf die Karriere als politischer Schriftsteller auszurichten.”
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literature, American/ 19th century/ Biographies/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Citizenship
Ritter, Alexander. “Die Noete des Biographen mit dem Rollenspiel Charles Sealsfields: Ueber den ominoesen Fluechtling 1823, einen fragwuerdigen Prediger 1824-26 und nervoesen Boersianer im Panic Year 1837.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 46, 2011, pp. 21-37.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract: Explores the difficulties facing a biographer of Karl Postl/Charles Sealsfield.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ Literature, American/ 19th century/ Literary criticism/ Biographies/ 19th century/ America in German literature
Ritter, Alexander. “Die Stadt Natchez (Miss./USA) in der erzaehlenden Literatur vom Ende des 18. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Rene Chateaubriand, Charles Sealsfield, Eudora Welty, and die Variationen eines literarischen Regionalismus.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 6, 1991, pp. 23-62.
Abstract: Ritter’s Arbeit wird folgend aufgegliedert: Die transatlantische Suche nach einer Stadt in der Literatur; Literarische Umwege zur europaeischen Erneurung oder Natchez in den Traeumereien von Chateaubriands Kamin; Die degenerierte Aristokratie von Natchez oder Charles Sealsfield und die literarische Rettung des “agrarian myth” und einer “aristokratischen Demokratie;” die literarische Vertreibung der Maschine aus dem Garten oder Idyllisches Natchez, gerahmt an der Wohnzimmerwand; Natchez, die literarische Erscheinung einer Stadt, sehr knapp resuemiert oder Ideologische Absichten neben didaktisch Zweckmaessigem.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Women authors/ Literary criticism/ United States in literature
Ritter, Alexander. “Die texanische Revolution und ihre Umdeutung ins Utopische: Zum gesellschaftspolitischen Gegenentwurf im Roman Das Cajuetenbuch von Charles Sealsfield.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 6, 1991, pp. 83-108.
Abstract: Ritter’s article discusses Sealsfield’s literary manipulation of the Texas Revolution in “Das Cajuetenbuch” to highlight the myth of the American frontier and the European-American mythicizing of “revolution.”
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Texas/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Myths/ United States in literature/ Catholics/ Fiction
Ritter, Alexander. “A Fake Travelogue and a Fake Interview: Carlyles Herr Teufelsdrockh und Clarks nachgeahmter Dialog mit ‘Seatsfield’ als kulturpolitische Selbstinszenierung in The Knickerbocker (New York), im Krisenjahr 1844.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 163-176, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Discusses the imagined dialogue between Charles Sealsfield and an American guest, written by Louis Gaylord Clark in imitation of Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus. While Clark certainly never met Sealsfield, he uses the German author as a foil to speak to his own aesthetic concerns and his vision of a national culture, particularly in light of the issues facing America in the “crisis year” of 1844.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ United States — History/ 19th century/ Fiction, historical
Ritter, Alexander. “Geschichten aus Geschichte – Charles Sealsfields erzaehlerischer Umgang mit dem Historischem am Beispiel des Romans Das Kajuetenbuch.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 4, 1989, pp. 127-145.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586 / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ History/ Texas/ Fiction/ Literary criticism
Ritter, Alexander. “Geschichten aus Geschichte: Charles Sealsfields erzaehlerischer Umgang mit dem Historischen am Beispiel des Romans Das Kajuetenbuch.” In The life and works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) 1793-1864. Charlotte L. Brancaforte, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, General editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison, 1993, pp. 57-77.
MKI PT 2516 S4 L3 1993
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literary criticism/ History/ Texas/ Fiction
Ritter, Alexander. “Kein ‘huebschen Knaeuel von Raethseln’: Charles Sealsfields bigotte Selbstinszenierung und eingennuetzige Mystifizierung seiner Literatenexistenz.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 49, 2014, pp. 209-230; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: A biography of the Austrian-American Carl Postl, who adopted the pseudonym Charles Sealsfield, and traveled among the United States, Germany, Paris, London, and became a U.S. citizen in the 1850s.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864
Ritter, Alexander. “‘…liess sich in den Buergerverein dieser Republic aufnehmen’: Der Migrantenfall Carl Postl/Charles Sealsfield–Individualkrise als Krisensymptom der Vormaerzzeit.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 36, 2001, pp. 47-67.
Abstract: This essay presents a series of documents that detail the metamorphosis of Postl from Catholic priest and Austrian citizen to the “secularized author, political mediator, and American citizen Sealsfield….The presented documents of the camouflaged life of Karl Postl as Charles Sealsfield mirror his private fear and uncertainty as a persecuted political refugee, having illegally violated the vow as priest and the Austrian law of emigration.”
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literature, American/ 19th century/ Biographies/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)
Ritter, Alexander. “Sealsfield-Bibliographie.” Schriftenreihe der Charles-Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, vol. 1, 1987, pp. 50-65.
MKI PT2516.S4 Z4586
Texas/ Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Bibliographies
Ritter, Alexander. “Strapazioese Literatenexistenz des Charles Sealsfield: Psychosomatische Belastungen, modische Hydrotherapie im 19. Jahrhundert und die Leidensjahre 1862 bis 1864.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 50, 2015, pp. 181-191; ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: Short description of the declining physical, mental and emotional health of the Austrian-American, due particularly to stress and alcohol consumption.
MKI Periodicals
Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864
Ritter, Erwin F. “Dora Grunewald: Reminiscences.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 7, Spring 1974, pp. 5-13.
Abstract: Ritter’s 9 page article provides a brief biography of Dora Grunewald and describes her poetry as the result of a “lifelong communion with nature,” in which she writes of (among other things) Germany as she knew it in childhood and of the “historically rich legacy of the German nation.” The article contains original poems by Grunewald.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E .G3 G315
World War, 1914-1918 — German Americans/ Poetry/ Immigrants in literature
Ritter, Erwin F. “Robert Reitzel, A.T. (1849-1898).” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp. 12-26.
Abstract: Ritter’s article provides a biography of Reitzel as well as a history and assessment of his literary journal “Der arme Teufel.”
MKI Periodicals
Reitzel, Robert, 1849-1898/ Poetry/ Reformed Church/ Journalism/ Heinzen, Karl, 1809-1880/ Socialism
Ritter, Gerhard A. “Meinecke’s Proteges: German Emigre Historians between Two Worlds.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 39, Fall 2006, pp. 23-38.
Notes: Lecture delivered at the GHI on May 15, 2006.
Abstract: “The basis for this lecture is a new edition of letters from the papers of Friedrich Meinecke, the founder of the history of ideas in Germany. The selected letters illuminate Meinecke’s relationship with those of his students who were forced to emigrate after 1933 and show these students’ close bond with their teacher, to whom they reported about their lives in the United States and about their scholarly plans, and whom they helped after the war by supplying CARE packages and medicines unavailable in Germany. . . . The letters allow us to explore many questions, including the question of German-Jewish identity. The letters throw light on emigration and remigration, on restitution, and on the lives and scholarly development of Meinecke’s students. . . . I have selected Hajo Holborn [1902-1969], Dietrich Gerhard [1896-1985], and Hans Rosenberg [1904-1988] for discussion here because in my opinion they best illustrate the challenge of grappling with life in two worlds.”
MKI Periodicals
Jews, German/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ 20th century/ History/ Assimilation
Ritter, Paul. “Professor Hassler und andere beruehmte Schweizer-Amerikaner der ersten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 37, 1917, pp. 30-34, ill.
Abstract: Ferdinand Rudolf Hassler (1770-1843), Albert Abraham Alphons Gallatin (1761-1849), Louis Jean Rudolf Agassiz (1807-1873), and Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910).
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ 19th century/ Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolf, 1770-1843/ Biographies
Roba, William. “Bix Beiderbecke as a German-American.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 45, 2010, pp. 147-176.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Essay examines how Biederbecke’s background helped him to become “a jazzer, and how German Americans played an important role in American musical history.”
MKI Periodicals
Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931/ Music/ Biographies/ German Americans — Iowa
Roba, William. “Forgotten German-Iowan Alternatives.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 38, 2003, pp. 99-111, ill.
Abstract: Biographical sketch of Emil Geisler (1828-1910), who “was regionally influential in the Upper Mississippi River Valley as a strong supporter of education, promoter of a powerful myth of ethnicity, and successful businessman.” He was born in Lunden in the Duchy of Holstein and migrated to America in 1852, settling in Davenport, Iowa. Includes a poem from Geisler’s 1902 collection of poetry.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Iowa/ Geisler, Emil, 1828-1910/ Education/ Biographies/ Poetry
Roba, William. What Would You Do? Congressman Henry Vollmer and the Anti-War Movement, 1914-1918. [Quad Cities, IA]: Hesperian Press, 1991. 29 pp.
Notes: An essay presented at the fifteenth annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Washington, DC, 26 April 1991.
Abstract: “A careful consideration of the events leading up to America’s direct intervention into the Great War on the side of Britain indicates that 1915 was the decisive year. By using Congressman Henry Vollmer [a German-American from Davenport, Iowa] as a case study for understanding those events, three distinct ironies of history appear. First, Vollmer and other Democratic Congressmen were elected because of the power and patronage of Wilson’s government. Those representing sizeable numbers of German-American constituents had to oscillate in their loyalty as the events of the Great War unfolded. Second, Vollmer had to deal with Wilson’s wrath as he attempted to enact an embargo that would have really implemented the President’s vow to remain neutral. Third, the embargo was defeated partially because of [William Jennings] Bryan whom everyone in the “Friends of Peace” thought was indispensable as proof of the group’s neutrality.”
MKI P2004-28
Vollmer, Henry/ German Americans — Iowa/ Politics/ World War, 1914-1918
Robbins, Edith. “Friedrich Hedde: Grand Island’s Forty-Eighter, Pioneer and Leader .” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 97-104.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Nebraska/ Biographies/ Turners/ Hedde, Friedrich
Robbins, Edith. “German immigration to Nebraska: The role of state immigration agencies and agents.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 93-104.
Abstract: Robbins’ article discusses the work of the “Deutsche Zeitungsgesellschaft,” the territotial and state immigration associations, and the county societies, as well as their agents Renner, Siemers and Hedde, in developing methods of immigration promotion to be used by the immigration and colonialization agencies of the Nebraska railroads in the 1870s and 80s.
MKI Periodicals
Nebraska/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Newspapers/ Societies, etc.
Robbins, Mark. “Family History.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 30, no. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 275-278.
Abstract: Essay submitted by a student as part of the Austin Ethnic History Association’s Contest, April 1980. Adolph Carby was born 13 March 1833 in Saxon, Germany. He and his family immigrated to the United States. Adolph married Teresa Jenull, who had come to Texas from Austria. Both Adolph and Teresa are buried at Blackjack, near La Grange, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy/ Carby/ Jenull
Robbins, Peggy. “Levi Strauss.” American History Illustrated, vol. 6, no. 5, 1971, pp. 33-35.
Abstract: Levi Strauss was a Bavarian immigrant. He got rich in San Francisco, selling his snug, low-hipped, taper-legged, heavy-duty pants. Strauss, Levi, 1829-1902
MKI P86-141 / SHS E 171 .A574
Biographies
Robbins, Peggy. “The Trial of Peter Zenger.” American History Illustrated, vol. 11, no. 8, 1976, pp. 8-17.
Abstract: Four decades before the Declaration of Independence a colonial printer clashed with the British Crown over freedom of the press. Peter Zenger came to the New World from the war-torn Rhenish Palatinate with is family in 1710.
MKI P86-142 / SHS E 171 .A574
Biographies/ History
Robinson-Zwahr, Robert R. “Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Goldbeck.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 10, Fall 1975, pp. 12-19.
Abstract: Robinson-Zwahr’s 8 page article discusses Goldbeck’s heritage and his life and includes a short story/ poem entitled “Der alte in der Schlucht.”Goldbeck, Fritz, 1831-1899
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ History/ Societies, etc./ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Literature, German-American
Robinson-Zwahr, Robert R. “Review of Curt E. Schmidt’s “Oma and Opa, German-Texan Pioneers.” New Braunfels: Folkways Publishing Co., 1975.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, 1978, p. 80.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Robinson-Zwahr, Robert R. “Review of Oscar Haas’ “History of New Braunfels and Comal County, Texas 1844-1946.” Austin: 2nd printing, 1975.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1978, p. 39.
Abstract: Robinson-Zwahr’s review briefly discusses the Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Robinson-Zwahr, Robert R. “Surnames in Benjamin’s History of the Germans in Texas .” Journal of German-American Studies: A Journal of History, Literature, Biography and Genealogy, vol. Vol. 12, no. No. 4, 1977, pp. 95-96.
Notes: Robert E. Ward, Editor-in-Chief.
MKI Periodicals / SHS E 184. G3 G315
German Americans — Texas/ Genealogy
Roche, Hal J. “Martinsville Like Village Transplanted from Europe: Community Life Centers Around Parish Church; Early Settlers Came There from Germany.” Capital Times, Dec. 5, 1948, p. 1, ill.
Notes: Donated by Suzanne Treichel, 2007.
Abstract: “A traveler from Europe would find nothing unusual about the fact that the life of this tiny, northwestern Dane County village is centered completely around its church, but it is a trifle unusual in modern-day Wisconsin.”
MKI P2007-42
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Dane County/ Martinsville (Wis.)
Rockwell, Leo L. “Older German Loan-Words in American English.” American Speech, vol. 20, no. 4, Dec. 1945, pp. 247-257.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
MKI P2003-33
Language, English/ Language influence / Language, German/ German influence
Roda Roda. “Das arme Dirnlein.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 44, 1924, pp. 91-92.
Notes: Austrian-American/German-American author; Roda Roda is the pen name of Alexander/Sandor Friedrich Ladislaus Rosenfeld.
Abstract: Short story in which “das Dirnlein” represents the German language.
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Fiction/ Language, German
Rodenkirch, Michel. “Immigrating to Wisconsin in 1846.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Dec. 2013, pp. 4-5, ill.
Notes: Germantown, WI.
Abstract: “Michel Rodenkirch left the Rhine River area of Germany and settled north of Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1846.” This article provides a partial translation of a letter Rodenkirch wrote describing his early experiences in Wisconsin.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Letters/ 19th century
Roebbelen, K. A. W. Das zwanzigste Kapitel der Offenbarung St. Johannis: nach der Richtschnur des rechten einigen Glaubens […]. St. Louis, Mo.: Wiebusch & Sohn, 1860. 55 pp.
Notes: Religion
MKI P88-114
PIA/ Biblical/ Commentaries
Roeber, A. G. “Henry Miller’s “Staatsbote”: A Revolutionary Journalist’s Use of the Swiss Past.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 25, 1990, pp. 57-76.
MKI Periodicals
Wars/ Swiss Americans/ Politics/ Newspapers/ Language, German (US)/ Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, 1711-1787
Roeber, A. Gregg. “The future of German religion in North America.” The German-American encounter: Conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000. Frank and Shore Elliott Trommler, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001, pp. 61-76.
MKI/MEM E 183.8 G3 G472 2001
Religion/ German Americans/ History/ Social life and customs/ United States/ Immigrants, German
Roeber, Anthony Gregg. “The von Mosheim Society and the Preservation of German Education and Culture in the New Republic, 1789-1813.” German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Henry Geitz, Juergen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. Washington, D.C.; Cambridge; New York : German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 157-176.
Abstract: “Justus Heinrich Christian Helmuth arrived from Halle to assume pastoral responsibilities in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1769. . . . Between 1785 and 1818, Helmuth labored to erect a comprehensive system of German education ranging from parish elementary schooling to the von Mosheim Society, which he founded in 1789 as an adult literary society for the perpetuation of German language and culture.”
MKI/MEM LA 216 G47 1995
German Americans — Societies, etc./ Language, German/ Language maintenance/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ German Americans — Pennsylvania/ Education/ German influence
Roedder, Edwin. “The Study of German Dialects in the United States of America.” Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht, vol. 24, no. 5, 1932.
Notes: Reprint.
MKI P84-146
Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Teaching/ Dialects
Roeder, Flora von. “Otto von Roeder: Prussian nobleman and Texas patriot.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 137-143.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ 19th century
Roeder, Flora von. “A visit to the origins of Friedrich Ernst.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society)), vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 35-37.
Abstract: Brief article on a German-American credited with having established the first permanent German settlement in Texas in the 1830s: Industry. Written by his great-great-granddaughter.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas
Roelen, Martin Wilhelm. “Georg Friedrich Veenfliet, ein Weseler Forty-Eighter.” pp. 16 p. : ill., map.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Off-print of article, no publication information provided. Donated by Caryl Rommelfanger, May 2015.
Abstract: Brief biography of Veenfliet (also Veenvliet, Veenvlieth), born April 2, 1813 in Wesel, friend of Friedrich von Beust, August von Willich, and Friedrich and Mathilde Franziska Anneke while in Germany. Charged with treason in early 1849, he fled to Holland, was joined by his wife and then-five children, and all emigrated via Rotterdam to Detroit (December 1849), after which they settled in “Cheboygaene / Blumfield” (Bloomfield), Michigan. There he took up the rural, farming life and participated in local civic activities until his death March 29, 1896. Author Roelen has written about the history and people of the Wesel area researched from the library and city archives.
MKI P2015-06
Veenfliet, Georg Friedrich (1813-1896)/ German Americans — Michigan/ Forty-eighters
Roellecke, Heinz. “A Letter From Cincinnati’s Committee For the Needy in Germany to Jakob Grimm.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 163-168.
Abstract: Roellecke’s article explains the history of the letter to Grimm. A copy of the letter is included.
MKI Periodicals
Immigrants, German/ Cincinnati (Ohio)/ Letters
Roemer, Hans E. “Konrad Krez, Poet between Continents.” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1 , 1971, pp. 12-17.
Abstract: Roemer includes selected poems by Krez in his biography.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Krez, Konrad, 1828-1897/ Biographies
Roesch, Karen. “Mr reda ka richtiges Dietsch — ‘Bad Language'” Self-stigmatization in German Heritage Dialects.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 51, 2016, pp. 189-203, ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references. Rösch.
Abstract: Contemporary speakers of German dialects brought to the United States in the 19th century often perceive their language as not correct or “bad,” most often pointing to vocabulary that is archaic, regionally restricted, or that includes too many words borrowed from English. While visits to and from Germany reinforce these perceptions among heritage speakers, encounters with native Geman speakers also motivates them to modernize their vocabulary.
MKI Periodicals
Dialects/ German language — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Dialects/ Language, German (US) — Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Linguistics
Roethke, Gisela. “M. F. Anneke: Eine Vormaerzkaempferin fuer Frauenrechte in Deutschland und in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 33-52.
Abstract: Es ist Zeit, dass man Anneke fuer das anerkennt, was sie war: eine der Anfuehrerinnen des deutschen und amerikanischen Feminismus. Von ihrem Geburtsland verfolgt, kaempfte sie in den Vereinigten Staaten besonders unter der damals sehr grossen deutschsprachigen Bevoelkerung fuer Freiheit, Menschenrechte und die Rechte der Frauen Seite an Seite mit den hervorragendsten amerikanischen Feministinnen ihrer Zeit.
MKI Periodicals and Anneke box
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Feminists/ Women authors
Roger, D. “Frederick Froebel’s kindergarten influence on the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), and the Swiss-French architect le Corbusier (1887-1965), with repercussion in Europe, USA and Canada.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 2, 1995, pp. 13-14.
Notes: SGAS.
Abstract: Recent research concerning the “Kindergarten” training of the two renowned modern architects, Wright and Le Corbusier, both trained under Pestalozzi-Froebel programs, emphasizes the value for an advanced pre-school education. Froebel’s concept of “learning by way of creative play” vs. recent computer programs is summarized here.
MKI Periodicals
Kindergarten
Roger, Dieter. “Deutsch in Manitoba. Vom ersten Deutsch Westkanadas bis zum heutigen Deutschunterricht.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 136-147.
Abstract: A brief history of German-speaking settlers in West Canada, beginning in the early 19th century, and an examination of German literature and language instruction in Canadian universities.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-Canada)/ Education/ Teaching of German
Roger, Dieter. “Zum 80. Geburtstag Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardts.” Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch / German-Canadian Yearbook, vol. VII, 1983, pp. 148-154.
Abstract: A commemorative piece on the occasion of Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt’s 80th birthday by the German-Canadian Historial Association, honoring his contribution to Canadian cultural life. Dr. Eckhardt was the Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery from 1953 to his retirement at the age of 72 in 1974.
MKI Periodicals
German Canadians/ Canada/ Arts
Rohloff-Gardner, Joyce. “Mid-19th Century Prussian/German Army: Organization and Sources.” Die Pommerschen Leute, vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 6-8, ill.
MKI Periodicals
History/ Prussia (Germany) — History, Military
Rohrbach, Lewis Bunker. “The 1710 Swiss and German Settlers of New Bern, North Carolina.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 39, no. 2, June 2003, pp. 5-48.
Abstract: Reprint of the introduction to Even More Palatine Families, this article examines the 752 settlers from Switzerland and Germany who went to North Carolina in 1710. Includes reconstructed passenger lists; a reproduction of a 1711 Swiss map of New Bern; and a recounting of the difficult relationships between the settlers and the local Native Americans, which resulted in the Tuscorora Indian War.
MKI Periodicals
North Carolina/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Settlements/ Immigrants, German/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Native Americans
Rohrbaugh, Nova. “The good old days.” Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, 1996.
Notes: Another similar article in issue no. Vol. 3, Winter 1996, pp. 21-22.
Abstract: Recollections of the author’s life on the farm
MKI Periodicals
Pennsylvania/ Social life and customs/ Personal narratives/ Farm life
Rohrkemper, John. “‘When the mind remembers all’: Dream and memory in Theodore Roethke’s ‘North American sequence.'” MMLA: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 21, no. 1, 1988, pp. 28-37.
MKI P93-28
Literary criticism/ Poetry
Rokus, Josef W. “From Koerbecke to Manhattan: The Search for the First Rokus in America.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 5-13, ill.
Abstract: Recounts how the author “researched a distant relative who came to New York in 1860 and the engaging life-story of this Civil War soldier. Beginning researchers should be sure to read this article and the extensive endnotes, which include numerous research strategies and tips.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Family history/ Rokus/ Westphalia/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Rokus, Josef W. “Researching Your German-American Ancestors in the Civil War.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 5-15, ill.
Abstract: “This article describes how to research your Civil War ancestors using the Internet and other resources. It focuses on determining whether your German ancestor served in the war, and if so, where to find details of that service. To illustrate the process, I have included some results of my searches for a German Yankee [Antonius Rokus] and a German Rebel [Edward L. Heinichen]. Finally, the bibliography will help you explore relevant print resources.”
MKI Periodicals
Genealogy/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Rolf, Ernst Henry. “Autobiography of a Pioneer Pastor: E. Rolf.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 2-15, ill.
Notes: Translated by Edward J. Arndt.
Abstract: “Today we can hardly even imagine the hardships and challenges that confronted pioneers in the 19th century as they opened the Midwest for settlement and established churches and schools in primitive circumstances. This article provides us with an insight into the life of one hardy pioneer whom the Spirit of God used to establish His church in the formative years of Lutheranism in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Minnesota.”
MKI Periodicals
Lutherans/ Lutheran Church/ German Americans — Wisconsin / German Americans — Indiana/ German Americans — Minnesota/ Religious life
Romansky, Thaddeus. “‘This Large Class of Our Soldiers'” Self-Government, Deutschtum, and German-American Associationalism in the Mutiny of the 20th New York Infantry Regiment.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 49, 2014, pp. 115-140.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and references.
Abstract: “A mutiny by the German-American 20th New York Infantry at the outset of the Battle of Chancellorsville in April 1863 ended in the court-martial of 201 men. This essay [examines] how midcentury German-Americans balanced ethnic affiliation with national citizenship in the midst of the American Civil War….”– p.115.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Romberg, Arnold. “Johannes Romberg, German Poet of Texas, Part I: Biography.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 35, no. 2, Summer 2013, p. 112, ill.
Notes: Originally appeared in the Fayette County Record, February 12, 2013.
Abstract: Johannes Romberg was born on November 10, 1808, at Alt-Buckow in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, son of Lutheran pastor Bernhard Friedrich Christlieb and Conradine Sophie Friederike (Hast) Romberg. In 1847 he and his wife and seven children emigrated to Texas, eventually settling in the Black Jack Springs area in Fayette County. About 1857 he founded the Prairieblume, a literary club that included German settlers from the Black Jack Springs and La Grange areas, who read and discussed their stories, articles and poems at each meeting. Romberg is considered to be the most outstanding German-Texan poet and among the number of notable German-American poets. Romberg died on February 5, 1891, in the Black Jack Springs community.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Poetry/ Romberg, Johannes Christlieb Nathanael, 1808-1891
Romberg, Johannes. Gedichte. Dresden, Leipzig: E. Pierson, 1900. xx, 294 pp., frontispiece.
German-American author; from Ward: b. 1808 in Alt-Bukow, Mecklenburg, d. 1891 in his home on the San Bernard River in Texas. Came to America in 1847. Lived an independent pioneer life in Galveston and later in Fayette County, Texas (Black Jack Creek). On title page: Mit dem Bilde des Verfassers. Vorwort signed Alfred Wagner, Black Jack Springs, Fayette Co, Texas, Juni 1899. Book is in poor condition. Inscribed to Glenn Gilbert as “a gift from Annie Romberg, the granddaughter of the author, Austin, Texas, Spring 1964.”
Includes Biographische Skizze by Alfred Wagner. Among the poems are: “Wahl eines Hausplatzes,” “Am Rio Colorado,” “Die Deutschen,” “Auswanderer,” “Bacchus und die Prohibition,” “Der Winter in Texas,” “Pressfreiheit und Pressfrechheit,” “Nordwind in Texas,” and “An Deutschland.”
Donated by Glenn Gilbert, 2006.
Rommelfanger, Karyl Enstad, transcriber and editer. Die Memoiren von Karl Karsten: Ein Tagebuch des amerikanischen Buergerkriegs. S.l: the author?, 104 pp.
Abstract: Transcribed diary of Karl Karsten, born in Bruel, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany in 1843. He immigrated to the United States in 1856 and lived in West Bend, Wisconsin. Enlisted in the 26th Regiment of Wisconsin volunteers in August 1862 as a private, and rose to the rank of First Lieutenant. The diary covers the period from October 1862 to May 1865.
MKI P2002-1
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Diaries/ Wars/ Wisconsin — Washington County/ Mecklenburg
Rommelfanger, Karyl Enstad. “Einwanderer: The Evolution of a Supplementary Reader on German-Americana .” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, vol. 31, no. 1, 1998, pp. 51-54.
Abstract: Einwanderer is an integrated, activity-based supplementary reader which tells the true story of a contingent of Germans who left Gau-Algesheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, and settled in eastern Wisconsin in 1847. It involves students in the use of primary historical materials, many of them in the original German.
MKI P98-42
German-American Studies/ Teaching/ Readers/ Immigrants, German/ Wisconsin
Rommelfanger, Karyl Enstad. “Manitowoc Wrestles with the Crimes of Charles Rosstaeuscher.” Voyageur, Winter/Spring 2008, pp. 20-27, ill.
Notes: Photocopy donated by Karyl Rommelfanger.
Abstract: The story of the justice system and a young German brewer in Manitowoc in the 1850s accused of murdering a bartender inside the city’s Franklin Hall.
MKI P2008-4
German Americans — Wisconsin/ Wisconsin — Manitowoc County/ Manitowoc (Wis.)/ History/ 19th century
Rook, Christian. “Lieber, Prescott, Schem, Zickel, and Schrader: Five “German-American” Encyclopedias.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 32, 1997, pp. 73-98.
Abstract: This study investigates “German-American” encyclopedias, which are of special interest to German-American studies and encyclopedia studies researchers because they portray American and German-American history as well as the history of encyclopedia-making. The German-American encyclopedias are shown in the context of world history, immigration to America, of book trade, and of publishing. The article answers such questions as: Why were German-American encyclopedias published in the United States?; How were they connected to the European encyclopedia traditions?; What purpose did they serve?; Who were the compilers, printers, and publishers?; Who were the readers? The study gives a short history of encyclopedias, introduces the three European encyclopedia traditions of the 18th and early 19th centuries, and investigates five German-American encyclopedias.
MKI periodicals
German-American press/ Literature, German-American/ Book trade/ German Americana
Rose, Ernst. “August Vogel from Milwaukee and the Sangershausen Rosarium.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 19, 1984, pp. 57-66.
Abstract: Rose’ article discusses the role of the Sangerhausen Rosarium as an institute which has contributed to the “promotion of Western culture.” Vogel arrived in Milwaukee in 1847.Francke, August Hermann, 1663-1727
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
19th century/ Societies, etc./ Prussia/ Lutherans/ Immigrants, German/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Cultural influence
Rose, Ernst. “Grand Canyon (poem).” German-American Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971, pp. 18.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German-American/ Poetry
Rose, Ernst. “A Historian’s Creed.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 7-10.
Abstract: Rose’s article states that the field of Germanistik in the U.S. has been in crisis for the last 20 years, namely because of its narrow focus and specializing. It suggests broadening the field to include discussion about German-American concerns, which “evolutionists…theologians, the economists and the sociologists, the psychologists and the archaeologists” can understand.
MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315
Literature, German/ German-American Studies/ Teaching
Rose, Ernst. “Zum Ableben Carl Frederick Wittkes.” Journal of German-American Studies, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 198-199.
MKI Periodicals
Biographies
Rosenbaum, Doris Koester. “Re-Discovery of Old Letters From Germany.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 31, no. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 151-153, ill.
Abstract: Translation of a letter dated September 21, 1947 written by Manfred Jaster, manager of Estate Gilde, above Gifhorn, Hannover, to his uncle Ludtke in Brenham, Texas.
MKI Periodicals
German Americans — Texas/ Letters
Rosenberg, Wilhelm Ludwig. An der Weltenwende: Gedichte. Cleveland, Ohio: Windsor Ave. Publishing Co., ©1910. 192 pp.
Notes: German-American author.
MKI P88-33
PIA/ Poetry
Rosengarten, Joseph G. “German Archives as Sources of German-American History.” German American Annals, vol. 5, n.s., 1907, pp. 357-369.
Notes: Paper read before the Pennsylvania German Society, October 1907.
MKI Periodicals
Rosenstengel,
W. H. [William Henry], and Emil Dapprich, eds. Deutsches Lesebuch für amerikanische Schulen. Herausgegeben von W. H. Rosenstengel und Emil Dapprich, Milwaukee, Wis. Deutsch-Englische Akademie [Advertisement]. Milwaukee, Wis.: Deutsch-Englische Akademie, [189?]. 3 pp.
Photocopy. Original in Historical Society Library Pamphlet Collection 74-1134. Advertisement describing a series of volumes with the same title as the advertisement. “Bei der Abfassung der Lesebücher sind die Herausgeber von den Grundsätzen ausgegangen, das 1) nur das Best für unsere Kinder gut genug ist, 2) auf die Pflege der Gemütsbildung besonders Gewicht gelegt werden sollte, 3) das Heimatliche und Vaterländische (das Amerikanische) stärker betont werden muss, als dies in den hier erschienenen deutschen Lesebüchern geschehen ist, 4) Einfachheit der Form und Durchsichtigkeit des Inhalts notwendig sind und dass 5) das Lesebuch als Mittelpunkt des sprachlichen Unterrichts den Forderungen der modernen Pädogogik entsprechen muss.” Includes testimonials.
Donated by Ethel-Maria Nikesch, 2006.MKI P2006-10
German-English Academy/ PIA/ Textbooks/ Teaching of German/ Juvenile/ Readers/ Primers/ Fibeln
Rosenvold, Susan. “Major Heros von Borcke.” German-American Journal, vol. 57, no. 1, Feb./Mar. 2009, pp. 5, ill.
Abstract: On January 30, 1864, a resolution of thanks was issued by the Confederate States of America Congress in Richmond, Virginia to Major Heros von Borcke. Born in Ehrenbreitstein, Prussia, Baron Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke was an eight year veteran of the Prussian army. “It has been suggested that he abandoned Europe for the American [Civil] War due to boredom and a desire to test his skill in combat.” After returning to Prussia in 1866, von Borcke wrote his memoirs of service; in 1884 he returned to visit the U.S., and donated his sword to the State of Virginia, where it is kept at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.
MKI Periodicals
Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans/ Borcke, Johann August Heinrich Heros von
Rothe, Hans-Joachim. “The Role of the Central Office for Genealogy in the German Democratic Republic in Writing Family History.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980. [Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 503
Abstract: On Genealogy and historical research, which was done in the GDR as historical materialism.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 7
Genealogy/ Germany/ Family history
Rourke, Linda D. “Amish Quilt Patterns.” Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 1987, pp. 12-13, ill.
P2003-6
Amish/ Crafts/ Social life and customs
Rourke, Linda D. “Plain Home Cooking.” Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 1987, pp. 20-23, ill.
Abstract: Examines the foodways of the Amish, and includes a recipe for shoofly pie.
P2003-6
Amish/ Social life and customs/ Food
Rowan, Steven. “Anaticlericalism, Atheism, and Socialism in German St. Louis, 1850-1853: Heinrich Boernstein and Franz Schmidt.” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992. pp. 43-56. 270 pp. Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity. MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992 German-American press
Rowan, Steven. [Belleville Public Library Project: Evaluation of the ‘German Collection’ at the Belleville, Illinois, Public Library, with Recommendations for Its Future Development]. [St. Louis: University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of History], 1986. [7] pp. manuscript.
Abstract: Provides an evaluation of the “German Collection” at the Belleville [Illinois] Public Library, which was originally organized as a subscription library by educated German-speaking “Latin farmers” in 1836. The collection contains books in many languages representing “the full range of what persons with a broad liberal education might want to read, whether it was in German, Latin, French, Greek or Hebrew.” While religion and philosophy is represented, “the primary stress is on works of skepticism.” Also included are books by members of the Belleville intellectual community and of local interest (such as Das Westland, an 1838 work published in Heidelberg specifically to promote emigration to St. Clair County), as well as a large section of travel literature and history. Includes a partial catalog of the collection.
MKI P2004-12
Bibliographies/ Literature, German/ Language, German/ German Americana/ German Americans — Illinois
Rowan, Steven. Friedrich Hecker Papers: Working Catalogue for the Western Historical Manuscripts, UMSL. St. Louis: University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of History, [31] pp. manuscript.
Notes: See also: http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/stlouis/s0451.pdf.
Abstract: Catalogue of the personal papers of Friedrich Hecker, 1811-1881, a prominent figure in the German Revolution of 1848/48. The catalogue shows the following categories: 1. Personal Credentials and Official Documents. 2. The German Revolution of 1848/49 and the Exile Movement. 3. Friedrich Hecker in America, 1848-1861. 4. Friedrich Hecker in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (Hecker commanding the 24th Illinois Infantry Regiment , Hecker commanding the 82nd Illinois Infantry Regiment, and the papers of Eugene F. Weigel, 1862-1899). 5. Political and Personal Correspondence, 1865-1881. 6. Speeches and Writings of Friedrich Hecker. 7. Contemporary Eulogies and Memorials on the Death of Friedrich Hecker. 8. Portraits, Photographs and Objects Concerning Friedrich Hecker. 9. Secondary Materials Concerning Hecker.
MKI P2004-16
Hecker, Friedrich, 1811-1881/ German Americans — Illinois/ Forty-eighters/ Revolution, 1848-1849 — Refugees/ Civil War, 1861-1865 — German Americans
Rowan, Steven. “Gottfried Duden’s Critique of Alexis de Tocqueville, Michel Chevalier and Himself in 1837.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 44, 2009, pp. 1-21.
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes.
Abstract: Introductory essay to Rowan’s translation and transliteration of Duden’s critique of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (which includes Duden’s views on the controversial issue of slavery) and his response to critics and disappointed immigrants who felt misled by Duden’s Report on a Journey.
MKI Periodicals
Duden, Gottfried, 1789-1856/ German Americans — Missouri/ Slavery
Rowan, Steven. “Review of “Eine Republik der Arbeiter ist moeglich: Der Beitrag Wilhelm Weitlings zur Arbeiterbewegung in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 1846-1856″ by Hans-Arthur Marsiske.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 299-301.
Abstract: Rowan’s review states that Marsiske’s book “will prove useful to those trying to interpret the development of Weitling’s writings, more within a European than within an American context.”
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Rowan, Steven. “Review of “Sozialistische Bestrebungen deutscher Arbeiter in St. Louis vor 1848: Der St. Louis Communistenverein” by Walter Schmidt.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 26, 1991, pp. 305-307.
MKI Periodicals
Book reviews
Roy, Kristina. Die Verlorenen. New York, N.Y.: Amerikanische Traktat-Gesellschaft, 1907.
MKI P85-137
PIA/ Fiction, religious/ Women authors
Rubincam, Milton. “In Search of Pennsylvania Germans: Sources for Family History.” In World Conference on Records: Preserving Our Heritage; August 12-15, 1980.[Salt Lake City]: Corporation of the President of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1980. Series 342
Abstract: On how to use church records, public records and published journals in order to establish family history of Pennsylvanian Germans.
MKI CS2 W65 1980 v. 4
Genealogy/ Pennsylvania Germans
Ruch, Marianne, and Mary Lou Fleming. “Jacob Schnee, First Printer of Lebanon (Pa.).” In The German-American Press. Henry Geitz, editor. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, editor Henry Geitz. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1992, pp. 27-42.
Abstract: This volume attempts to present a relatively broad spectrum of the broadly-defined German-American press’ activity.
MKI PN 4885 .G3 G467 1992
German-American press
Rudolph, Joseph. “Kurzer Lebensabriss eines achtundvierziger politischen Fluechtlings.” Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, vol. 7, 8, 1907; 1908, pp. 89-96, 139-142, 152-154; 21-30.
Abstract: Memoirs of a political refugee of the 1848 revolution.
MKI Periodicals
Forty-eighters/ Refugees, political (US)/ Memoirs/ Political activity/ Personal narratives
Ruediger, Hermann. “Als Sendbote in Amerika.” Deutschtum im Ausland, vol. 22, no. 2/3, Feb./Mar. 1939, pp. 82-84.
Notes: Deutschtum im Ausland: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Ausland-Instituts Stuttgart. [Served as a propaganda instrument of the National Socialist party in Germany]. Photocopy.
Abstract: “‘Sendboten sollten hinausgehen nach Ontario, Suedaustralien, Nord-Dakota, Nebraska, Texas usw.’ Diese Anregung gab im Jahre 1934 Mitarbetier heinz Kloss in seinem grundlegenden Auffatz in den Mitteilungen der Deutschen Akademie ueber ‘Die Eigenstaendigkeit des Ueberseedeutschtums als Erbe und als Aufgabe.’ Der Anregung des Wissenschaftlers, die einer umfassenden Kenntnis besonders des laendlichen Deutschtums in Nordamerika entsprang, folgte drei Jahre spaeter die Tat, als der Oberbuergermeister der Stadt der Auslandsdeutschen und Praesident des DAI, Karl Stroelin, den Stuttgarter Ratsherrn Karl Goetz als Sendboten zu den Deutschen Amerikas schickte.”
MKI P2007-31
German Americans/ 20th century/ National Socialism
Ruedy, A. “Swiss-American Historical Society.” Amerikanischer Schweizer-Kalender, vol. 50, 1930, pp. 52.
Notes: In German and English.
Abstract: Information about and invitation to join the Chicago-based organization, founded in 1927. “During the past two years the society has carried on research work along the line of individual biography concerning the lives and accomplishments of prominent Americans of Swiss nativity or origin.” [See: Prominent Americans of Swiss Origin: A Compilation Prepared by the Swiss-American Historical Society. New York, J.T. White & Co., 1932.]
MKI Periodicals
PIA/ Swiss Americans/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Societies, etc.
Ruehl, Susanne. “Seebote und Herold (1863-1865): Die deutschsprachige Presse in Milwaukee waehrend des Buergerkriegs und ihre Rolle fuer die Assimilation der deutschen Einwanderer. MS thesis.” M.S. thesis, Universitaet Tuebingen, 1996. 118 pp.
Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Arbeit sind zwei der drei waehrend des Buergerkriegs erschienen deutschsprachigen Zeitungen Milwaukees. Es handelt sich um die Tageszeitung Seebote und den zu der Zeit woechentlich erscheinenden Herold. Anhand dieser Quellen soll untersucht werden, welche Rolle die deutschsprachige Presse fuer die deutsche Bevoelkerung Milwaukees gespielt hat und ob sie fuer die Assimilation von Bedeutung war
MKI dissertations
Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Newspapers, German-American/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ Politics/ Assimilation/ Ethnic identity.
Ruehling, R. Was bringt die Zukunft? Brookfield, Ill.: Pacific Press, n.d. 95 pp.
Notes: Religion
MKI P88-9
PIA/ Theological
Ruhland, Herman. “Autobiographical Sketch of Herman Ruhland, 1865-1948.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 1949, pp. 151-154.
MKI / SHS BX 8001 .C535
Ruppersberg, Otto. “Ernst Schwendler, der erste amerikanische Konsul in Frankfurt am Main.” In 100 Jahre Amerikansiches Generalkonsulat in Frankfurt am Main 1829-1929, 1929, pp. 57-87.
MKI P86-110
Biographies/ Relations, Germany-US
Ruppius, Otto. “A Career in America.” American German Review, vol. 9, 1943, pp. 28-33.
Notes: Introduction and Translation by Frederick Franklin Schrader; German-American author.
Abstract: Ruppius, Otto, 1819-1864
MKI P93-85
Biographies/ Fiction
Russell, Thomas H. Das Ende der Titanic: ein deutlich beschreibender, erschuetternder Bericht ueber den Untergang des groessten und feinsten Ozeanpalastes, der mehr als fuenfzehnhundert Seelen mit sich in ein tiefes Wassergrab zog. […]. Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, ©1912. 260 pp.
MKI P88-3
PIA/ History
Russell, Thomas H. Rasende Fluten und Tobende Stürme. Die gewaltigen Kräfte der Natur. (Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters). Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1913. 246 pp., ill.
On title page: “von Thomas H. Russel [sic], A. M., LL.D. Verfasser von ‘Das Ende der Titanic.’ Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Max Heber. . . . Eine Geschichte von schreckensvollen Tatsachen, die, weil wahrheitsgemäss geschildert, in ihrer Entsetzlichkeit ergreifender wirkt, als eine Tragödie der Phantasie, die sich auf Theaterbrettern abspielt. Fesselnde Beschreibung des grossen Tornado zu Omaha und der Hochfluten in Ohio und Indiana — Wie der Wirbelsturm entstand — Einzelne Vorgänge beim Sturm — Flammen erhöhen und vermehren die Gefahren —Herzergreifende Erzählungen von schrecklichen Szenen, bezeugt durch fliehende Menschen und Lebensretter — Flüsse verwandeln sich in rasende, unwiderstehliche Fluten — Feste Dämme krachen und bersten auseinander, und ganze Städte, Farmen und Städtchen werden von wirbelnden Wassern überflutet — Hunderte kommen plötzlich oder nach langen Angststunden um und viele Tausende werden obdachlos — Gouvernör von Ohio appellirt an das Volk — Die Nation antwortet mit prompter Hilfe — Präsident Wilson lässt einen Aufruf um Hilfe ergehen — Proviantzüge werden schnell abgesandt — Stadt und Land opfert schnell und gerne zur Hebung des Elends — Todtenliste der durch die Wirbelstürme und die Hochfluten Umgekommenen. Lebensgetreue Illustrationen.”
Missing original cover. Donated by Walter Uphoff.
Click here to view images from this book.
Rutherford, J. F. Die Wiederkunft unseres Herrn. Brooklyn, N.Y.: International Bible Students Association, ©1926. 60 pp.
Notes: Religion
MKI P88-29
PIA/ Theological/ Jehovah’s Witnesses
Rutherford, J. F. Himmel und Fegefeuer. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, ©1931. 52 pp.
Notes: Religion
MKI P88-28
PIA/ Theological/ Jehovah’s Witnesses