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Johns Hopkins University. Department of German

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1876 or 1880s-2006 - 2006

Biography

At the time of its founding in 1876, the Johns Hopkins University had no departments and languages were grouped together. In 1880, the Romance and Teutonic languages (including German) were separated. In 1888, German was separated from English to improve the German language instruction program. In 2006, the Department of German and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures were combined and became the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures.

Source: http://grll.jhu.edu/history/

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Lieselotte E. Kurth-Voigt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0214
Scope and Contents The majority of the collection is materials collected by Kurth for her studies of C.M. Wieland, L. Muhlbach, and Friedrich von Bodenstedt. These files include photostatic copies of their published works and some manuscripts, printed material about them, and Kurth's notes. There are also Kurth's lecture notes and background material for courses she taught at Hopkins on the eighteenth-century novel. Kurth's teaching materials represent a stage in the teaching of German at Hopkins. In...
Dates: 1960-1989