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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 Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Family History Winterthur Bern Chapter 2: Military Service Infantry Motor Corp Chapter 3: Zurich Medicus Chapter 4: Search for a Job Chapter 5: Oregon Chapter 6: Going East Goucher College University of Maryland Chapter 7: Washington, DC Gertrude Austin Gertrude and Fritz Chapter 8: Chevy Chase Invitation to Chicago University of Maryland: Overview University of Chicago Chapter 9: Brinklow Chapter 10: Ohio Berglihof Chapter 11: Fritz Marti: American Appendix A: Gertrude's Story: "House on a Hill" Sources and References ...
