Marvin Samuel Schindler (2 January 1932 – 11 June 2003) was an emeritus professor of

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Studies at

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Education

Schindler attended

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, then earned a bachelor's degree in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the

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in 1953. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the

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Career

Schindler served as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at

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from 1971 to 1974, and as Chair of the Department of

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and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Wayne State University from 1974 until 1983."Marvin Samuel Schindler '53," UMass Magazine Online; retrieved 24 February 2009.
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, but he also authored many articles on German and Germanics and was the book review editor of ''The German Quarterly''. In addition, he was co-editor (with Roslyn Abt Schindler, Martin Herman, and Joachim Dyck) of a ''Festschrift'' in honor of Professor Diether Haenicke, entitled ''University Governance and Humanistic Studies'', a work in two volumes. Schindler's leadership of Wayne State's Junior Year in

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and Junior Year in

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study-abroad programs (he served as director of both from 1975 to 1993) earned him the

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, Erster Klasse, Germany's highest civilian honor. He twice served as resident director of the Junior Year in Freiburg program, established and run in conjunction with the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, and lived with his family in

, in the heart of the

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, during the academic years 1983-84 and 1987–88. The Universitaet honored him twice: in 1982, with its silver medallion, and in 1985, with the designation of University Senator.

Death

Schindler died of heart failure at Harper Hospital in Detroit on June 11, 2003, at the age of 71.

External links

Ohio State University Germanics Department

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schindler, Marvin 1932 births Boston Latin School alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Ohio State University Graduate School alumni Northern Illinois University faculty Wayne State University faculty Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2003 deaths