I had the pleasure of leading a small group of North American graduate students on a two-week archival seminar in 2013 and 2014, a then long-running GHI program that has since been discontinued. The idea was to familiarize students with Germany’s archival landscape as well as to give them an opportunity to learn a type of German handwriting called Kurrentschrift. Clelia Caruso organized the first of these, and I organized the second.
Seminar Reports
Handwriting Primers (Kurrentschrift)
- Diedrich H. Lüken, Fibel für den ersten Schreib- und Leseunterricht (St. Louis, MO: Conrad Witter’s Schul-Buchhandlung, 1873).
- Karl Hermanns, Hand-Fibel, oder der Schreib-Lese-Unterricht als Erstes Lese-, Sprach- und Lehrbuch für Schule und Haus (Philadelphia, PA: Verlag von Schäfer und Koradi, 1878).
- A. F. Lorenzen, Deutsche Fibel (Columbus, OH: Lutherische Verlagshandlung, 1901).
Image: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Schönfeldstrasse entrance, detail of photograph by Andreas Praefcke at Wikimedia Commons under a CC-BY-3.0 license.
