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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Silas Wright Dunning |
1860 | Instructor in Latin & German |
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Jonathan August Charles Hildner |
1891 - 1938 | Associate Professor of German |
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George Allison Hench |
1891 - 1899 | Professor of Germanic Languages |
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Tobias J. C. Diekhoff |
1893 - 1935 | Professor of German |
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Ernest Heinrich Mensel |
1895 - 1901 | Instructor in German |
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Warren Washburn Florer |
1897 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Herbert DeWitt Carrington |
1901 - 1903 | Instructor in German |
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Max Winkler |
1902 - 1930 |
Professor of German Chair Department of German |
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Edmund Wild |
1908 - 1935 | Associate Professor of German |
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John William Scholl |
1912 - 1939 | Associate Professor of German |
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Fred B. Wahr |
1912 - 1959 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Aloysius Joseph Gaiss |
1920 - 1960 |
Assistant Professor of German Drillmaster in German, A.S.T.P. Area and Language 1943 |
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Norman Leroy Willey |
1920 - 1952 | Professor of German |
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Arthur Van Duren Jr. |
1923 - 1958 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Walter Albert Reichart |
1925 - 1974 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Oscar Leo Bockstahler |
1927 - 1930 | Instructor in German |
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John Wallace Eaton |
1929 - 1948 | Professor of German |
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Otto Gotthold Graf |
1930 - 1980 | Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature |
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Henry W. Nordmeyer |
1935 - 1960 |
Professor of German and Linguistics Chair Department of German |
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Ernst Alfred Philippson |
1935 - 1947 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Clarence Kobes Pott |
1944 - 1977 | Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature |
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Frank X. Braun |
1945 - 1974 | Professor of German |
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Herbert Penzl |
1950 - 1963 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Mary C. Crichton |
1955 - 1995 | Associate Professor of German |
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Max Dufner |
1956 - 1969 | Associate Professor of German |
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Ingo E. Seidler |
1957 - 1997 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Martin Dyck |
1958 - 1965 | Professor of German |
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Valentine Charles Hubbs |
1959 - 1985 |
Professor of German Chair Department of German |
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Leta J. Lewis |
1959 - 1963 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Roy C. Cowen Jr |
1960 - 2001 | Professor of German |
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Alice Trumm |
1960 - 1985 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Robert H. Paslick |
1961 - 1999 | Associate Professor of German |
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Werner H. Grilk |
1962 - 1992 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Robert L. Kyes |
1962 - 2005 |
Professor of German Chair Department of German |
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William Holmes Bennett |
1963 - 1973 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Joachim Birke |
1964 - 1967 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Hans J. Fabian |
1964 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Erich P. Hofacker Jr. |
1965 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Charles B. Maurer |
1965 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Alan R. Cottrell |
1966 - 1983 | Professor of German |
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Emery E. George |
1966 - 1988 | Professor of German |
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Hansjoerg Schelle |
1967 - 1996 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Hermann F. Weiss |
1968 - 2002 | Professor of German |
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Samuel M. Wheelis |
1968 - 1975 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Claiborne W. Thompson |
1969 |
Associate Professor of German Chair Department of German |
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Thomas L. Markey |
1973 - 1987 | Professor of German and Linguistics |
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Donald F. Nelson |
1974 - 1975 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Germany |
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Gerhard Dunnhaupt |
1976 - 1992 | Professor of German |
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Vivian Y. Greene |
1976 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Cecile Cazort Zorachm |
1978 - 1984 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Renate Born |
1980 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Marilyn Sibley Fries |
1985 - 1995 | Associate Professor of German and Women's Studies |
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Timothy H. Bahti |
1986 - 2001 |
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures Associate Professor of Comparative Literature |
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Frederick Amrine |
1986 - 2022 | Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures |
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Rosina L. Lippi Green |
1987 - 1997 | Associate Professor of German |
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Kathleen M. Canning |
1988 - 2018 |
Professor of History, Women's Studies, Germanic Languages & Literature Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professor of History |
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Patricia A. Simpson |
1989 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Hubert Rast |
1996 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of German |
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Edward Dimendberg |
1998 - 2004 |
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Film and Video Studies Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Vanessa Helen Agnew |
1998 - 2014 | Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures |
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Kader Konuk |
2003 - 2014 |
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature Associate Professor Comparative Literature |