Henry Glade
Henry Glade (born October 8, 1920 in Koenigsberg , East Prussia; † January 1, 1999 in North Manchester , Indiana ) was a German-American linguist and university professor. He taught at Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana.
Life
Glade was the son of Bruno Glade and Else Glade, née Gottfeld. In 1937 he emigrated from Germany, first to Italy and then to Cuba , where he met Lowel Wright, a Quaker from North Manchester. This gave him a scholarship to the Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown in Pennsylvania . He arrived in the United States on July 4, 1940. He graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1942 with a bachelor's degree . He continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his master's degree and his doctorate there. He then moved to Indiana University and Yale University .
During World War II , he served in the US Army Signal Corps . In 1958 he was appointed professor at Manchester College in North Manchester, where he taught German and Russian. On November 29, 1958, he married Shirley A. Hathaway , who graduated from Manchester College in the same year and taught English there from 1989 to 1994.
Glade taught English and Russian until his retirement in 1986. He also taught at the Slavic Institute at the University of Cologne . Glade was a member of the Modern Language Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies , among others .
Fonts (selection)
- (with Peter Bruhn ) Heinrich Böll in the Soviet Union: 1952–1979. Introduction to the Soviet Böll reception and bibliography of the writings by and about Heinrich Böll published in Russian in the USSR . E. Schmidt, Berlin 1980 ISBN 3-503-01617-1
- Carl Zuckmayer in exile. Part 1, Carl Zuckmayer Society, Mainz 1981
- Soviet violations of world copyright law. West German fiction in Russian translation 1980–1986 . Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies , Cologne 1989
- (with Peter Bukowski ) From critical to capitalist realism. Contemporary German literature from a Soviet-Russian perspective. Liber-Verlag, Mainz 1995 ISBN 3-88308-067-5
Web links
- Biography in the Indiana Obituary Collection
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manchester College, Faculty List (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glade, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American linguist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1999 |
| Place of death | North Manchester , Indiana |