Word: leipzig
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From 1923 to 1925 Professor Korff was at the University of Giessen. Since he has been Professor of German Literature at the University of Leipzig. He is a widely known scholar in the field of German Classical and Romantic literature...
Following his graduation, he worked as a reporter for two years on the old Boston Advertiser to earn money to continue his education abroad. After two years' study at Leipzig, he received his doctor's degree in 1876 and returned to this country to join the History Department...
Herman A. Korff, professor at the University of Leipzig has been appointed Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture for the second half of this year. He succeeds Professor Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy, who has held this position since September...
...Author. A Viennese Jew, Franz Werfel was born a Bohemian in Prague, studied philosophy in Germany, and was teaching in the University of Leipzig when the War called him to the Russian front. Settled in Vienna after the Armistice, he has lived there quietly ever since, proclaiming in poems, essays, plays and novels his tragic philosophy: the brotherhood of man. Great frequenter of cafés, he is fond of lapsing into Oriental calm, seeking inspiration while in that state. Beethoven-locked, corpulent, 44, Author Werfel is known in Austria primarily as a poet. Some of his U. S.-translated...
Then as now Dr. Gördeler was Leipzig's Mayor. Reviled by Nazi orators for years, he is still emphatically no Nazi. His name inspires confidence among middleclass Germans who. fearful of acute shortages in the Fatherland this winter, have lately been buying up foodstuffs and clothing in a frantic rush to hoard (TIME, Aug. 6). One day last week Herr Hitler abruptly raised non-Nazi Mayor Gördeler once more to the rank of Price Dictator, made him "solely responsible to the Realmleader...