uaglanglit Inventory of the Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature Records, 1949-1986 Processed by: Joshua Larkin Rowley; machine-readable finding aid created by: Joshua Larkin Rowley University Archives Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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 Descriptive Summary University Archives, Duke University Duke University. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature Records, 1949-1986 Material in English and German 4 Linear Feet approx. 5000 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. The Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature was created to offer students the opportunity to study the German language and the literature of Germany at Duke University. Most of the collection ranges in date from 1960-1985. A majority of the material was accumulated and created by Herman Salinger (Department chair, 1955-1970 and faculty member, 1955-1975); and Leland Phelps (faculty member, 1961-1985 and department chair, 1970-1983). Material includes various correspondence concerning academic appointments, administrative matters, and curriculum. Major subjects include graduate students and graduate study, various committees, study abroad programs, and publications. Files pertaining to the Harold Jantz Collection are also present. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Collection is opened for research.

In off-site storage; 24 hours advanced notice required for use.

 Copyright Notice

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, University Archives, Duke University.

 Provenance

The Records were received by the University Archives as a transfer between 1983-1994.

Processing Information

Processed by Joshua Larkin Rowley, October 2008

Encoded by Joshua Larkin Rowley, October

Accessions A83-66, A89-0003, A94-99 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

 Historical Note

The Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature was created to offer students the opportunity to study the German language and the literature of Germany. The Department endeavored to teach the reading, speaking, comprehension, and writing of German; to promote a grasp of the literature, literary movements, and the history of German literature including movements such as Romanticism, Symbolism, Realism and modern authors: Goethe, Kafka, and Grass; and a familiarity with the cultural history of the German people including art and music. The Department also offered a focused curriculum in linguistics, the teaching of German, and the study of comparative literatures. The Department instituted an M.A. program in 1956 and in the spring of 1963 a Ph.D. program in German was proposed. The first chair of the Department was Clement Vollmer (1936-1955), followed by Herman Salinger (1955-1970), Leland R. Phelps (1970-1974 and 1975-1978), and Frank L. Burchardt (acting chair, 1974-1975). Salinger and Phelps served simultaneously as Directors of Graduate Studies in the Department.

 Collection Overview

Collection contains material accumulated during the chairmanships of Herman Salinger and Leland Phelps and range in date from 1949-1986. A majority of the material is in English; however, there are items in German interspersed throughout. A bulk of the material dates from 1960-1985. The collection is divided into three series: Herman Salinger, Leland Phelps, and Department Chair and Director of Graduate Study. The Herman Salinger series contains material accumulated and created by Salinger during his tenure at Duke University, as department chair (1955-1970) and as a faculty member. Major subjects include graduate students, job applicants and inquiries, course materials, departmental publications, correspondence, and a file containing materials prior to Salinger's chairmanship. Among the name files are Clement Vollmer, Allan M. Cartter and Peter Ilkow, a German instructor at Duke from 1956 until his suicide in 1958. The Leland Phelps series contains material accumulated and created by Leland Phelps while serving as department chair (1970-1983) and as a faculty member. Material includes general correspondence, departmental meetings, and commitments. Among the major subjects are publications: Creative Encounters: Festschrift for Herman Salinger and Aus Unserer Zuit; foreign study and study abroad programs; the Munster Program; and material concerning the establishment of a language lab at Duke University. The Phelps series is also divided into two sub-series: Harold Jantz Collection files and Committee files. The Jantz Collection files contain material relevant to the acquisition and promotion of the collection including conferences and publications. Various committees on which Phelps served constitute the committee files sub-series. As both Phelps and Salinger served in the department simultaneously from 1961-1970, there is some overlap of materials. The third series contains material pertaining to the departmental chair, including Salinger and Phelps, and the director of graduate study, 1966-1983.

 Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Duke University. Computer Assisted Language Instruction (CALIS) Duke University. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature. Duke University. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature--Faculty. Duke University Library--Harold Jantz Collection. Cartter, Alan M. Jantz, Harold Stein, 1907- Phelps, Leland R. Salinger, Herman, 1905-1983 Vollmer, Clement, 1898-1972 Related Material Herman Salinger Papers, 1909-1982 Duke University Archives Clement Vollmer Papers, 1898-1983 Duke University Archives Biographical Reference Collection, 1972-2004 Duke University Archives University Archives Photograph Collection, 1861-ongoing Duke University Archives Contents of Collection Herman Salinger, 1949-1977

Series contains material created and accumulated by Herman Salinger during his tenure in the Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Duke University.

 1Cartter, Dean Allan M., 1959-1961, undated Correspondence, 1973 Correspondence, 1974 Correspondence, 1975 Courses and Curriculum, 1974-1977 Course Material, 1969-1972 Departmental publications, 1963-1965 Graduate requests, 1975-1976 Graduate students, 1961-1964 Graduate students, 1966-1967 Graduate students, 1967-1968 Graduate students, 1968-1969 Graduate students, 1969-1970 Graduate students, 1970-1971 Finger, (Homer) Ellis, 1966-1968 Fury, Marguarite, 1965 Holscher, Elisabeth, 1961-1963 Johnson, Maureen, 1969-1972 Johnson, Sandra Darleen, 1968 Lauf, Waltraud, 1970-1974 McCredie, Brian D., 1971-1972 McMahon, Clare, 1966-1967 Snyder, Elizabeth, 1971-1974 Ulmer, Katherine Loretta, 1968 Wade Marjorie, 1964-1965 Walker, Nancy, E., 1960-1963 Williams, Ann Malloy, 1961-1963 Woodward, Elizabeth C., 1965-1966 Ypma, Heuricus, 1971-1972 Humanities Council, 1965 Job applicants, 1952-1955 Job applicants, 1966-1967 Job applicants, 1967-1968 Job applicants, 1969-1970 Job applicants, 1971 Job applicants, 1972 Job applicants, 1973 Job applicants, 1977 Barlow, J.D., 1967 Boyce, Benjamin, 1967 Coleman, Evelyn S., 1966 Cowen, Roy C., 1965 Day, J. Kenneth, 1963-1966 Dornemann, William E., 1966 Fowkes, Robert A., 1966-1967 Gaertner, Georg H., 1966 Gish, Theodor, 1965-1966 Goldin, Frederick R., 1965 Hartwig, Ingrid U., 1968-1970 Hofacher, Jr., Erich, 1962-1963 Hohendal, Peter, 1965 Hopkins, E.H., 1964-1966 Ilkow, Peter, 1958-1959 Jaessel, Gerolf, 1965 Johnson, Sydney M., 1963-1964 Lewis, Harold W., 1963-1972 Koester, Rudolf, 1966-1967 Lutz, Roehrich, 1967-1969 O'Flaherty, James G., 1960 Penn, Julia M., 1965 Pitterman, Erwein, 1962-1964 Salamon, George, 1965-1966 Schanze, Helmut, 1965-1968 Schliewiensky, Dieter, 1964-1965 Schmidt, Gerard, 1964-1965 Schindler, Marvin, 1966-1967 Shears, Lambert, 1966-1967 Stapf, Paul, 1963-1964 Stok, Miek, 1968-1972 Thomas, James C., 1963-1964 Van Heys, Dorothy, 1964-1965 Wahle, Margareta, 1963-1965 Walker, Frances, 1968-1969 Watt, Richard A.K., 1967-1968 Wilson, Frederick E., 1949-1970 Law School building, 1961-1962 Long-Range Planning Committee, 1959-1961 Medievalists, 1964-1966 Miscellaneous, 1973-1974 2Modern Language Association (MLA), 1967 MLA prospects, 1966 Pre-Herman Salinger Admnistration, 1951-1952, 1955 Scandinavian literature, 1963-1968 Speakers, 1964-1965 Speakers, 1965-1967 Student work study, 1974 Summer Institute, 1962 Teaching vacancies, 1965-1975 Textbooks, 1973-1976 Textbooks, spring 1975 University memoranda, 1975-1977 Leland Phelps, 1954-1986

Series contains material created and accumulated by Leland Phelps during his tenure as faculty member, department chair, and director of graduate studies in the Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Duke University.

 Committee files, 1977-1984

Sub-series contains material relating to the various committees on which Leland Phelps was a member while at Duke.

 2Commencement Committee, 1979-1981 Commencement Committee, Commencement speaker, 1980 Committee on Academic Status of Performing Artist, 1979-1984 Committee on Academic Status of Performing Artists, Report, 1983-1984 Committee on Comaprative Literature, 1977 Curriculum Committee, 1978-1979 Langauge Institute Committee, 1981-1984, undated Langauge Institute Committee, 1981-1984, undated Language Lab Committee, 1981-1982 PEW Foundation Committee, 1983, undated Residential Life Committee, 1977-1978 Harold Jantz Collection 1977-1982

Sub-series contains material relating to the promotion of the Harold Jantz Collection and includes correspondence, the German American Literary and Cultural Conference, committtees, and grant institutions.

 German American Literary and Cultural Conference, 1979 Ad-hoc Committee, 1977-1978 Conference, 1977-1979, undated Conference, 1977-1979 Conference definites, 1978-1980 Conference negatives, 1979 Conference proceedings volume, 1981-1982 Conference program, 1977-1981, undated Conference report, 1979, undated General, 1978-1979 General, 1979-1981, undated Project miscellaneous, 1976, undated Propsal summaries, undated Volkswagen and Thyssen Foundations, 1978-1981 3"Aus unserer Zeit," #2, 1965, undated "Aus unserer Zeit," #2, undated "Aus unserer Zeit," #3, undated "Aus unserer Zeit," #3, permissions, 1970-1972, undated Bevan, William, 1979-1982 bi-weekly payroll, 1974 Commitments, 1968-1979 Commitments, 1980-1981 Computer language lab, 1980 Computer language lab, grant, Germany, 1980, undated Computer language lab, grant, N.E.H., 1980, undated German Democratic Republic (DDR), 1982 Departmental meetings, 1970-1975 Departmental meetings, 1976-1977 Departmental meetings, 1977-1978 Departmental meetings, 1978-1979 Departmental meetings, 1978-1979 Departmental meetings, 1979-1980 Departmental meetings, 1980 Departmental meetings, 1980-1981 Departmental meetings, 1981-1982 Foreign study opportunities, 1976-1978 Foreign study problems, 1975-1976 Fulbright professor, Tubingen, Germany, 1960 Friedel, Ernestein, 1980-1982 General correspondence, 1954-1961, bulk 1960 General correspondence, 1963-1965, bulk 1964 General correspondence, 1966-1967 General correspondence, 1968-1969 General correspondence, 1970-1972 General correspondence, 1973-1975 4General correspondence, 1976 General correspondence, 1977 General correspondence, 1978 General correspondence, 1979-1980, 1984 German American companies in North Carolina, 1974-1978 Independent Study, funds, 1976-1978 Ingendaay, Dr. Ernst, 1976-1978 Junior Year in Munich meeting, 1978 Language lab, tape list, undated Masters of Arts in the Fine Arts (MAFA), 1985-1986 Munster Program, 1967-1968 Munster Program, 1971-1976 National Teacher Exam, 1982 North Carolina's School of Science and Mathematics, 1980-1981, undated Persian Project, 1979-1980, undated Post-N.E.H. meeting, 1984-undated President's letter, 1982-1983 Proposal for computing project, 1980 Pye, Kenneth A., 1976-1981 Sabbatical, 1981-1983 Salinger "Festschrift," 1978-1979 SAMLA talk, 1979 Society for German American Studies newsletter, 1979-1982 Society for German American Studies newsletter, 1980-1983, undated Society for German American Studies newsletter, 1983, 1985 Studia Humanitas, 1978-1983 Taylor Cole material, 1975, 1978 University of Kassel, 1980-1981 Vanderbilt Report, 1975 William R. Hewlett Foundation, 1978-1982, undated Year-Round Operation (YRO) Task Force, 1980 Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, 1966-1983

Series contains material accumulated by the Department Chair and the Director of Graduate Studies within the Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

4General correspondence, University, 1966-1980 German Graudate Program, 1972, undated Graduate School, general, 1976-1981 Graduate students, 1971-1972 Graduate students, 1971-1972 Graduate students, 1972-1973 Graduate students, 1972-1973 Graduate students, 1974-1975 Graduate students, 1975-1976 Graduate students, 1982-1983 Graduate students, miscellaneous, 1978-1981 Grant information, 1975, udnated Inquiries, 1975, undated Princeton Test, 1973-1975