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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Knortz, Karl |
| Title, Analytic | Zur Erinnerung an den urschwaben G. Heerbrandt |
| Journal Title | Folkloristische Streifzuege |
| Date of Publication | 1899 |
| Volume ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 292-303 |
| Abstract | [From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Knortz, Karl, b. 8-28-1841 in Garbenheim, Rhenish Prussia, d. 1-28-1918 in Tarrytown, N.Y. German-American translator, editor, poet, folklorist, author, journalist, teacher and literary historian who introduced Walt Whitman to the German public. . . . [E]migrated to America [from London] in 1864. Studied the languages of the Indians and taught from 1864 to 1868 at the Schule des Seminarvereins in Detroit. 1868-71 taught German and Latin in Oshkosh, Wis. Taught 1871-74 at a seminary in Cincinnati and edited 1873-74 Der deutsche Pionier; 1875 the Indiana deutsche Zeitung in Indianapolis. In the fall of 1876 he was director of the school of the Deutsche Unabhaengige Gemeinde and the congregation's speaker in Johnstown, Pa., later (1882) in N.Y. where he taught in the suburb Melrose. Served as sup't. of German instruction in Evansville, Ind. from 1892-1905. Moved to Tarrytown, N.Y. Contributed to Die Glocke in Chicago; Deutsch-Amerikanische Dichtung; Deutsch-Amerikanische Monatshefte fuer Politik, Wissenschaft und Literatur; Americana Germanica; and Allgemeine Modenzeitung. Edited the section on American literature in Meyer's Conversations-Lexikon.]Gustav Heerbrandt was born in 1819 in Reutlingen and died in 1896 in New York. He was arrested and imprisoned as a revolutionary in 1848, immigrated to America in 1850. He was the founder and editor of a Swabian newspaper in New York in 1876. |
| Notes | Prof. Karl Knortz, Schulsuperintenden zu Evansville, Indiana. Oppeln und Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Maske. Only first volume was published. |
| Call Number | MKI P2009-22 |
| MKI Terms | Heerbrandt, Gustav, 1819-1896/ Forty-eighters/ Swabians |