In Memoriam

Harry Haile
In memory of Harry Haile, Professor Emeritus








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James Marchand
In memory of James Marchand, Professor Emeritus








 
RLorbe
In Memory of Ruth E. Lorbe, Professor Emerita

Harry Haile

Obituary

Selected Publications:

  • Artist in chrysalis; a biographical study of Goethe in Italy. University of Illinois Press, 1973.
  • Das Faustbuch nach der Wolfenbütteler Handschrift C. Winter, 1995. [An earlier edition attempted reconstruction of the original. This edition focuses the Faust theme.]
  • The history of Doctor Johann Faustus, recovered from the German. University of Illinois Press, 1965.
  • Invitation to Goethe's Faust. University of Alabama Press, 1978.
  • Luther, an experiment in biography. 1st Princeton University Press ed., 1983.

 

 

James Marchand

Obituary

Medieval Studies at Illinois remembers James Marchand

Selected Publications:

  • The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past (ed., with Elmer H. Antonsen and Ladislav Zgusta; J. Benjamins, 1990)
  • The Quest for the New Science: Language and Thought in Eighteenth-Century Science (with Karl J. Fink; Southern Illinois UP, 1979)
  • Language and Culture (Illinois Language Learning Laboratory, 1979)
  • Early Scandinavian Variants of the Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday (Acta philologica scandinavica, 1976)
  • The Allegories in the Old Norse Veraldar Saga (Michigan UP, 1975)
  • The Sounds and Phonemes of Wulfila's Gothic (Mouton, 1973)

 

 

Ruth E. Lorbe

Obituary

Selected Publications:

  • "Spuren. Elemente der Lyrik im Kinderreim," Akzente 1 (1954) 280-291.
  • Lyrische Standpunkte. Interpretationen moderner Gedichte. Muenchen: Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag, 1968. 2. Auflage 1969. Pp. 192.
  • Die Welt des Kinderliedes. Dargestellt an Liedern und Reimen aus Nuernberg. Berlin: Julius Belzt, 1971.
  • "Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte der Jahrhundertmitte," Theorie der Kurzgeschichte. Hg. Hans-Christoph Graf van Nayhauss. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1977. 62-65. Reprinted in Siebzehn Kurzgeschichten. Stuttgart: Klett, 1982. 104-107.
  • "Kinderlyrik," Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Zur Typologie einer literarischen Gattung. Hg. Gerhard Haas. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1974. 178-219. Revised and reprinted in Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Ein Handbuch. Hg. Gerhard Haas. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984. 339-368.
  • "Außerdem und Innerdem. Polikarp und Poliphem. Elemente der Kinderlyrik in der Dichtung Paul Celans." Psalm und Hawdalah. Zum Werk Paul Celans. Hg. Joseph P. Strelka. New York: Peter Lang, 1987. 79-98.
  • "Documentation: Walter Höllerer. Porträt Walter Höllerer: Ein Gespräch mit Ruth Lorbe," The German Quarterly 1 (1986) 85-102. Reprinted in Walter Höllerers Oberpfälzische Weltei-Erkundungen. Hg. Werner Gotzmann. Weiden: Vereinigte Oberpfälzische Druckereien und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 1987. 114-129.
  • "America in Contemporary German Poetry: Images of Reality," Amerika! New Images in German Literature. Ed. Heinz Osterle. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. 243-275.
  • "Welt und ich," Seltene Augenblicke: Interpretations of Poems by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Ed. Margit Resch. Columbia: Camden House, 1989. 98-120.

 

 

In Memory of James McGlathery
In Memory of James McGlathery, Professor Emeritus

James McGlathery

Obituary 

Selected Publications:

  • Mysticism and Sexuality: E. T. A. Hoffmann. Part One: Hoffmann and His Sources. Berner Beiträge zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 4 (also as: American University Studies, I,3, and Europäische Hochschulschriften ,I, 450). Berne: Peter Lang Verlag, 1981.
  • Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, Perrault. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. (Japanese edition Tokyo: Tuttle-Mori Agency, 1998.)
  • Grimms' Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Literary Criticism in Perspective. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993.
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann. Twayne's World Authors Series, 868. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.
  • Wagner's Operas and Desire. North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, 22. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

 

 

Frederick Schwink
In Memory of Frederick Schwink, Associate Professor

Frederick Schwink

Obituary

Selected Publications:

  • Work Begun: "'blindr er betri en brenndr séi...': Runes as a Tactile Writing System." University of Illinois/Kulturhistorisk Museum, University of Oslo, 2010. 
    https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/publications/7th-symposium-preprints/documents/schwink.pdf
  • "The Velar Nasal in the Adaptation of the Runic Alphabet." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 12.2 (2000) 235-249.
  • Linguistic Typology, Universality and the Realism of Reconstruction. Washington, D.C.: The Institute for the Study of Man, 1994. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series #12.