External links
- Iowa State University's Special Collections and Archives Website
- 2001-2002 Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
James R. Dow | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 2, 1936 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar of folklore, professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Folklore &linguistics |
| Institutions | |
James R. Dow is a Professor Emeritus of German at Iowa State University with research interests in German Volkskunde (folklore),Old Order Amish of Kalona and Amana Colonists of Amana. He took his doctorate from the University of Iowa in German literature in 1966. He taught at University of Wyoming before taking his permanent post at Iowa State University in Ames,Iowa. Dow served for ten years as the editor of the Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie. He was also guest professor at the University of Bremen in Germany. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 for the study and grammar of the Cimbrian language,resulting in a highly regarded book Dow edited by the late Bruno Schweizer. James Dow has 8 grandchildren Alysabeth,Byron,Christian,Daniel Buck,and Jakob Dow,and Breslin,Brenden,Braylin Crose. He is married to Susan D. Dow.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
The Cimbri were an ancient tribe in Europe. Ancient authors described them variously as a Celtic people, Germanic people, or even Cimmerian. Several ancient sources indicate that they lived in Jutland, which in some classical texts was called the Cimbrian peninsula. There is no direct evidence for the language they spoke, though some scholars argue that it was a Germanic language, while others argue that it was Celtic.
Cimbrian is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto. The speakers of the language are known as Zimbern in German.
Folklore studies is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the academic study of traditional culture from the folklore artifacts themselves. It became established as a field across both Europe and North America, coordinating with Volkskunde (German), folkeminner (Norwegian), and folkminnen (Swedish), among others.
The Nubi language is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo, and in Kenya around Kibera, by the Ugandan Nubians, many of whom are descendants of Emin Pasha's Sudanese soldiers who were settled there by the British colonial administration. It was spoken by about 15,000 people in Uganda in 1991, and an estimated 10,000 in Kenya; another source estimates about 50,000 speakers as of 2001. 90% of the lexicon derives from Arabic, but the grammar has been simplified, as has the sound system. Nairobi has the greatest concentration of Nubi speakers. Nubi has the prefixing, suffixing and compounding processes also present in Arabic.
Saul Friedländer is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
Ricarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as a historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.
Bruno Schweizer was a German linguist, best known for his work with the Nazi Ahnenerbe division. Schweizer was a personal believer in the theory that a Germanic stronghold in northeastern Italy gave rise to the Cimbrians, during the Middle Ages before and after its alleged end in 774.
Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director (Reichsgeschäftsführer) of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war crimes in the Doctors' Trial in 1947 and executed by hanging in 1948.
Gerhard Heinrich Wilhelm Fritz Hüsch was one of the most important German singers of modern times. A lyric baritone, he specialized in Lieder but also sang, to a lesser extent, German and Italian opera.
The Vasconic substrate hypothesis is a proposal that several Western European languages contain remnants of an old language family of Vasconic languages, of which Basque is the only surviving member. The proposal was made by the German linguist Theo Vennemann, but has been rejected by other linguists.
Swiss Standard German, or Swiss High German, referred to by the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or German: Hochdeutsch, is the written form of one of four official languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian, and Romansh. It is a variety of Standard German, used in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in Liechtenstein. It is mainly written, and rather less often spoken.
The Ahnenpaß documented the Aryan lineage of people "of German blood" in Nazi Germany. It was one of the forms of the Aryan certificate (Ariernachweis) and issued by the "Reich Association of Marriage Registrars in Germany".
The Slovene Hills or the Slovenian Hills is the largest hilly region of Slovenia, a smaller part is located in the Austrian province of Styria. It is situated in the northeast of the country and has an area of 1,017 square kilometres (393 sq mi). It comprises the Western Slovene Hills and the Eastern Slovene Hills. The region is known for its vineyards and wines. The central town and municipality is Lenart.
Dan Ben-Amos was an Israeli-American folklorist and academic who worked as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he held the Graduate Program Chair for the Department of Folklore and Folklife.
Dr. Regina Bendix is a professor of European ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
The Greater Germanic Reich, fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation, was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. The territorial claims for the Greater Germanic Reich fluctuated over time. As early as the autumn of 1933, Adolf Hitler envisioned annexing such territories as Bohemia, western Poland and Austria to Germany and the formation of satellite or puppet states without independent economies or policies of their own.
Arndt Wigger is a German linguist. A specialist in Modern Irish (Nua-Ghaeilge), Wigger has published many articles on different aspects of the modern form of the language. He is a fluent speaker of the Connemara dialect. He also studies Hungarian, Portuguese and Arabic. He is closely associated with the Studienhaus für Keltische Sprachen und Kulturen - SKSK, at the University of Bonn.
Eugenie Goldstern (1884–1942) was an Austrian anthropologist who conducted research on Alpine folk culture in Switzerland.
Horst Ueberhorst was a German sport historian. His six-volume world sport history of over 150 countries and a total of 3,982 pages is the most comprehensive systematic collection of the development of sports in the world. The European Committee for Sport History is honoring him annually by presenting the Horst Ueberhorst Honorary Address He was professor of sport history and founding Dean of the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the Ruhr-University in Bochum. After graduation from high school and a short voluntary service in the Army, Ueberhorst studied Sport, History, Germanic Languages and Protestant Religious Studies at the University of Bonn. After his teaching credential he taught at a grammar school in Bad Godesberg and continued his education at nearby Bonn where he received his PhD in 1952. He continued teaching at Bad Godesberg and part time at the Physical Education Department at the University of Bonn. In 1970 he started to work in the State Ministry of Education of North Rhine Westphalia. In this position he was in charge of the physical education teacher training in the state. When the newly founded Ruhr University in Bochum received a Physical Education Department he was made the first Chairperson later Dean. Here he continued as full professor until his retirement in 1992 and remained one of the most productive German sports historians. In 1991 he was honored by an international Festschrift. and received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was several times guest professor in the United States e.g. at the University of Massachusetts. He was coopted as an International Fellow der National Academy of Kinesiology and Fellow des European Committee for Sports History. The WorldCat has 169 books of/about him.
