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| Format | Manuscript |
|---|---|
| Creator | National Teachers' Seminary (Milwaukee, Wis.) |
| Title, Manuscript | National German-American Teachers' Seminary Records (1845-1965), Inventory |
| Extent of Work | 30 pp. |
| Address/Availability | University of Wisconsin, Division of Archives. College of Letters and Science, Dept of German |
| URL | https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9953918063602122 |
| Notes | Location of the archival collection: UW-Madison Archives, Steenbock Library, Rm. 434 |
| Abstract | Introduction to the collection and background information and history. Description of the archives. The archives contain: 1) the papers of the German-English Academy and the Milwaukee University School. This was a grade and high school that served as a practice school for the Seminary. It was founded in 1851 with Peter Engelmann, a prominent refugee from the German Revolution of 1848, as its director; 2) material relevant to the finances of the Seminary, The Academy, The Monatshefte and the Yearbook; 3) student exams grade, yearbooks, and other material. When, in 1927, the National Teachers’ Seminary of Milwaukee reached an agreement with the Regents of the University of Wisconsin (a probationary arrangement made permanent in 1930) and turned over its assets and records to the Department of German, a fifty year pioneering experiment in the teaching of the German language and culture came to an end. The roots of this institution extend back to 1851 when Peter Engelmann, a participant in the abortive Revolution of 1848, opened a school intended primarily for the children of German-speaking immigrants. In 1854 this secondary institution was incorporated by the state legislature as the German-English Academy. The German Americans of Milwaukee enthusiastically supported the school and it flourished, remaining in continuous operation until at least 1961. Its name was changed to the Milwaukee University School in 1918. The Teachers’ Seminary evolved directly from the German-English Academy. Faced with the growing shortage of well qualified German-speaking teachers, prominent business and cultural leaders from all over the country met in Louisville in 1870 to form an association for the endowment of a national teacher’s school. A sufficient sum had been raised by 1878 to permit the opening of the National German-American Teacher’s Seminary in Milwaukee. This institution, although administratively distinct from the German-English Academy, occupied quarters in the building erected for the earlier school, and the same director oversaw the direction of both. The Seminary soon achieved wide recognition nationally as a center of German studies and it seemed assured of a stable future. The anti-German feeling of the First World War, as well as the growing competition of state educational institutions, however, brought about virtual dissolution of the Seminary. The directors of the Seminary sought to combat the anti-German currents by changing the name of the institution from The National German-American Teacher’s Seminary to the National Teachers’ Seminary in 1918. This move, however, failed to revive the fortunes of the school; and in 1919 the last class to attend the Seminary graduated. |
| Call Number | MKI P99-10 |
| MKI Terms | Archives/ Education/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ National German-American Teachers' Seminary/ Nationaler Deutschamerikanischer Lehrerbund/ German-English Academy/ Engelmann, Peter, 1823-1874 |