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Author Baumrin, Judith, author

Title Fritz Marti: immigrant : a biographical memoir / Judith Baumrin
Published Lanham : University Press of America, Incorporated, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 105 pages)
Contents Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Family History -- Winterthur -- Bern -- 2 Military Service -- Infantry -- Motor Corp -- 3 Zurich -- Medicus -- Note -- 4 Search for a Job -- 5 Oregon -- 6 Going East -- Goucher -- University of Maryland -- 7 Washington D.C. -- Gertrude Austin -- Gertrude and Fritz -- Notes -- 8 Chevy Chase -- Invitation to Chicago -- University of Maryland: Overview -- University of Chicago -- Notes -- 9 Brinklow -- 10 Ohio -- Berglihof -- 11 Fritz Marti -- Appendix
Summary Fritz Marti (1894-1991) came from Switzerland, where he earned a doctorate in Philosophy, to The University of Oregon in 1923. He was a committed scholar in the tradition of German Idealism. This book describes his search for intellectual freedom in the United States and shows American academic life during the early twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 105)
Notes English
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Subject Marti, Fritz, 1894-
SUBJECT Marti, Fritz, 1894- fast
Subject Swiss -- United States -- Biography
College teachers -- United States -- Biography
Philosophers -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
College teachers
Swiss
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023700686
ISBN 9780761865995
0761865993