Schlagworte: History of Higher Education in the USA, History of University Education: USA and Germany compared, Universitätsgeschichte: Amerika im Vergleich zu Deutschland, Geschichte der Hochschulbildung: USA im Vergleich zu Deutschland, International relations: USA - Germany
In 1896 the Prussian Ministry of Education requested a report to be written about the state of higher education in the United States in order to evaluate developments in academia in the USA. The Berlin minister's aide Friedrich Althoff commissioned the report from economist Prof. Dr. Johannes Conrad (Halle) who had published an empirically oriented history of universities in Germany a decade earlier. Conrad was particularly qualified to write such a report also because he had been the teacher of many American students in Germany, among them Simon Patten who upon his return to the US helped found the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In his report Conrad presents a sketch of education in America at primary and secondary level and then analyzes the structure of higher education from the top level of organization to methods of teaching in the classroom. He pays special attention to women in higher education, the role of sports, and the efficiency of university libraries. But he also observes living expenses for students and discovers that American students spend more time in libraries than students at his university in Halle. This edition presents Conrad's report in German and English for the first time and has experts analyze it in its context.
Dr. Martin Meyer (b. 1956) retired from teaching American Literature and Culture at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 2022. He studied in Münster, Heidelberg, and on a student Fulbright grant at UNM in Albuquerque, N.M. He took his Staatsexamen at Heidelberg University in 1985 majoring in English and Political Science. His doctoral dissertation (Universität Kassel, 1992) and other publications focus on the portrayal of post¬war Germany in fiction by Thomas Berger, Kay Boyle, Charles Haldeman, John Hawkes, William Gardner Smith, Leon Uris and other American authors. Some of his publications deal with the reception of American literature in Germany after 1945 and with the history of the Armed Services Editions. He is also interested in letters from the front (Feldpost), which he has edited and published, in the American short story, and in book history.
Gregory R. Zieren
Professor Gregory R. Zieren (b. 1948) taught history at Austin Peay State University (TN) from 1991 until his retirement in 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Mich¬igan, M.A from the University of London, and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His research focus is on late 19th and early 20th century social and economic history, especially German-American connections. Zieren coined the term Amerikakenner for his investigation into Studienreisende who studied conditions in the US and reported back to a German audience. Publications on economist August Sartorius von Waltershausen, on business pub¬licist Hermann Grothe, and on engineering professors Alois Riedler and Robert Thurston have already appeared. Future essays will deal with Mecklenburg immigrant Eduard Krauel, Forty-Eighter Friedrich Kapp, and World War One government minister Karl Helfferich. It was Zieren's essay "From Halle to Harvard: Johannes Conrad as Mediator of Economic Thought" (1996) that inspired this book on the 1897 Conrad Report. Zieren counts himself lucky that he was a Fulbright scholar in Germany teaching at the universities of Kassel (1988/89) and Erlangen-Nürnberg (1989/90) when unification was taking place.
Charles E. McClelland
Charles E. McClelland (b. Texas 1940) is emeritus professor of history at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He studied at Princeton, Munich and Yale (PhD '67) and taught at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UNM in 1974. He was Director of the European Studies Program at UNM for many years and served as president of the UNM and New Mexico AAUP. He retired (early) in 1997 to work as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow and Fulbright Fellow in Germany, designing and writing part of a multivolume bicentennial history of the University of Berlin. He has also been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the Zentrum für Inderdisziplinäre Forschung in Germany. He is the author of six major monographs, contributing editor of three further books as well as author of two dozen schol¬arly articles about modern Central European social, intellectual and university history as well as of the modern learned professions.
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