Hermann C.G. Brandt Papers
Content Description
Notes for the German Dictionary originally housed in a wood file cabinet, from Professor of German Hermann C.G. Brandt, Class of 1872. The dictionary was published in 1925: A German-English dictionary, by H. C. G. (Hermann Carl George) Brandt, London, New York etc. G.E. Stechert & Co.
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1900-1920
Creator
Biographical / Historical
Hermann Carl George Brandt (1850–1920) was a German-American scholar who published German grammars and German-English dictionaries among other works. Brandt was born at Vilsen, Germany. He graduated in 1872 from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and was an instructor there from 1874 to 1876. From 1876 to 1882, he was associate professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1883, he was appointed professor of German language and literature at Hamilton, and remained in that position for the rest of his life. His publications include a German-English and English-German dictionary, an edition of Lessing's Nathan der Weise (1879), a German grammar (1884; several subsequent editions), and a useful German reader (1889).
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Carl_George_Brandt; accessed Apr. 2022)
Extent
1 Linear Feet (4 archival 4x6 index card boxes)
Language of Materials
English
German
Arrangement
Original order maintained. Collection is arranged in alphabetical order other than box 3 which contains miscellaneous letters of the alphabet. A couple of correspondence between Brandt and the publisher are folded up at the beginning of the collection.
Processing Information
Index cards removed from wood file cabinet and stored in archival 4x6 shoe boxes.
- Education -- Dictionaries -- German Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Faculty Subject Source: Local sources
- Translating and interpreting -- Dictionaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jeremy Katz
- Date
- Apr. 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Hamilton College Archives Repository
