Word: brinkmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking yesterday from Berlin. West Germany, Reinhold Brinkmann said that he would accept Harvard's recent offer of a tenured position. The department extended the offer in a decision of unusual unanimity, professors have said...
...Brinkmann, a specialist in 19th and 20th century music history, cited the atmosphere at Harvard and the prominence of the professors in the department as the two main reasons for his decision to leave Germany...
...Brinkmann's appointment comes after long-simmering disagreements between members of the two branches of the department, which offer separate degrees and whose curricula rarely overlap. Faculty members have been described as often at odds over the department's goals, and the central administration has played an unusually strong role in recent years in tenure matters...
...professors said yesterday that Brinkmann's outstanding qualifications made him acceptable to both divisions of the department...