Fritz Marti - Immigrant, a Biographical Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Judith Baumrin, the oldest of Fritz Marti's six children, has pursued a career in education as a professor of psychology at several universities with publications in peer reviewed journals and in 1979 established a center for remedial learning. Klappentext Fritz Marti (1894-1991) came from Switzerland, where he had completed his doctorate in philosophy, to The University of Oregon, Eugene, in 1923. He was a serious, committed scholar in the tradition of German Idealism. The book is about his search for intellectual freedom in America.He was part of the evolution of higher education in the United States in the 20th Century and taught at colleges and universities across the country such as Oregon, Goucher, Maryland, Chicago and Notre Dame. He became passionate about the role of a college education.In 1947 he and his wife Gertrude Austin established a college preparatory school within a farm/home community in the hills of southern Ohio. It exists today as The Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio.This is the story of his encounter with and adaptation to America and a look at American academic life during the early Twentieth Century. Zusammenfassung Fritz Marti: Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir is the story of Marti’s encounter with and adaptation to America and a look at American academic life during the early Twentieth Century. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Family HistoryWinterthurBernChapter 2: Military ServiceInfantryMotor CorpChapter 3: ZurichMedicusChapter 4: Search for a JobChapter 5: OregonChapter 6: Going EastGoucher CollegeUniversity of Maryland Chapter 7: Washington, DCGertrude AustinGertrude and Fritz Chapter 8: Chevy ChaseInvitation to ChicagoUniversity of Maryland: OverviewUniversity of ChicagoChapter 9: BrinklowChapter 10: OhioBerglihofChapter 11: Fritz Marti: AmericanAppendix A: Gertrude's Story: "House on a Hill"Sources and References...

Product details

• Authors: Baumrin, Judith Baumrin, Baumrin Judith
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780761865988
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6598-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples