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Fritz Marti

Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir

Judith Baumrin

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.

University Press of America

Pages: 120 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6598-8 • Hardback • June 2015 • $67.00 • (£52.00)

978-0-7618-6599-5 • eBook • September 2015 • $63.50 • (£49.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General, Biography & Autobiography / Educators, History / Study & Teaching, History / United States / 19th Century

Fritz Marti

Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir

Hardback

eBook

Summary

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.

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University Press of America

Pages: 120 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6598-8 • Hardback • June 2015 • $67.00 • (£52.00)

978-0-7618-6599-5 • eBook • September 2015 • $63.50 • (£49.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General, Biography & Autobiography / Educators, History / Study & Teaching, History / United States / 19th Century

Author

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.

Table of Contents

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”
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Fritz Marti

Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir

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Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir

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