Valters Nollendorfs
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- PhD History University of Latvia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Valters Nollendorfs is board chair of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and a professor emeritus of German language and literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Nollendorfs was born 22 March 1931 in Riga, Latvia, where his father, Kārlis Nollendorfs, was a police officer in the Old Town. At the age of thirteen, together with his family, he fled Latvia to Westphalia, Germany, where he spent almost six years in a displaced persons camp. In 1950 he emigrated to Texas. In 1954 he received a B.S. in pedagogy at the University of Nebraska, and in 1955 he completed an M.A. in German language and literature there. In 1962 he earned a Ph.D. in German literature at the University of Michigan, submitting a dissertation on Goethe's Faust. From 1961 until his retirement in 1994, Nollendorfs taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he chaired the Department of German from 1975 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1988. In 1981–82, he chaired the Division of 18th and Early 19th Century German Literature of the Modern Language Association.
Valters Nollendorfs's Published Works
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- Teaching German in America. Prolegomena to a History (1988) (8)
- Out of Germanistik: Thoughts on the Shape of Things to Come (1994) (7)
- Research Materials in Baltic Studies: A Survey of Availability and Need. (1980) (5)
- German Studies in the United States: Assessment and Outlook (1977) (4)
- "The Hidden and Forbidden. History of Latvia under Soviet nad Nazi Occupations 1940-1991", ed. Valters Nollendorfs, Erwin Oberländer, Riga 2005 : [recenzja] / Dorota Michaluk. (2006) (3)
- Of Task Forces, Commissions, and Ourselves: An Outlook Instead of a Review (1983) (3)
- The hidden and forbidden history of Latvia : under Soviet and Nazi occupation, 1941-1991 : selected research of the Commission of the historians of Latvia (2005) (2)
- The Demythologization of Latvian Literature (1973) (2)
- Taking the Conference to the Teachers: Workshops to Improve Language Teaching (1983) (1)
- “For poems are forever spirals without end:” A meditative letter to Ivar Ivask (1927–1992) on his Baltic Elegies (1995) (1)
- Der Streit um den Urfaust (1969) (1)
- Starp provinci un Eiropu (1973) (0)
- Directory of German studies : departments, programs, and faculties in the United States and Canada, 1995 (1991) (0)
- Goethe’s “ELEGIE”: A Non-Biographical Approach (1965) (0)
- Piecas Naktis/Five Nights (1977) (0)
- DAAD/Monatshefte Directory of German Departments, Faculties, and Programs in the United States 1980 (1982) (0)
- Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History (1990) (0)
- The voices of one calling: The literary mastering of the Latvian legacy in Bels and Ruņgis (1975) (0)
- Princeses fenomens: Raibi stāsti (1986) (0)
- Confrontations With Tyranny: Six Baltic Plays With Introductory Essays. Edited by Alfreds Straumanis. Prospect Heights, 111.: Waveland Press, 1977. 363 pp. Photographs. $15.00. (1981) (0)
- The Religious Philosophy of Jänis Rainis, Latvian Poet (1971) (0)
- Tur ilgi ejams (1987) (0)
- Riga in the lyric poetry of the postwar latvian generation (1974) (0)
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