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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87m0g7t No online items Richard Sheirich Papers Jamie Weber and Sean Stanley Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library 800 North Dartmouth Avenue Claremont, CA 91711 Phone: (909) 607-3977 Email: [email protected] URL: https://library.claremont.edu/scl/ © 2021 The Claremont Colleges Library. All rights reserved. Richard Sheirich Papers PC.0020 1 Descriptive Summary Title: Richard Sheirich Papers Dates: 1955-2009 Collection number: PC.0020 Creator: Sheirich, Richard, 1927-2011 Extent: 10 Linear Feet(9 record cartons, 2 document boxes, 1 half-size document box) Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711. Abstract: This collection contains course materials, departmental correspondence and planning documents, and grant proposals belonging to Pomona College professor, Richard M. Sheirich. Please consult repository. Language of Material: Languages represented in collection: English, German. Administrative Information Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to the Archives Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Richard Sheirich Papers (PC-0020). Pomona College Archives, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Perdita Sheirich, 2012, 2014. Accruals Additions to the collection are not anticipated. Processing Information Processed and arranged by Jamie Weber. Biography / Administrative History Richard M. Sheirich was born in 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania and attended local schools through high school. As his parents felt 16 was too young to go to college, he spent an extra year at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, graduating in 1945. He attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, for part of his freshman year before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. After a year's service at Williamsburg, Virginia, Sheirich was discharged and returned to Colgate to complete his undergraduate degree in 1949. He earned a master's degree in German from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in German from Harvard University in 1965. He also held a DAAD Fellowship at Universität Hamburg in 1957-58. After teaching at Colgate and UC Berkeley, he joined the Pomona faculty in 1965, and for 31 years taught courses in German language, literature and culture ranging from early tribal migrations to the Cold War and reunification. He also conducted research on Viennese poet, novelist, and playwright Richard Beer-Hofmann, producing a number of articles as well as an edition of Beer-Hofmann's correspondence, Der Briefwechsel mit Paula, 1896-1937. Most summers, Professor Sheirich spent time in Vienna, doing research. In the 1990s, Sheirich led a major grant-funded project, "German Across the Curriculum," to better integrate the study of German into non-language courses in the humanities and social sciences. The goal of the project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was to improve foreign-language skills and to promote, among both faculty and students, a greater understanding of the complexities inherent in a foreign culture and of the relationship between language and other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Scope and Content of the Collection This collection contains materials belonging to Pomona College professor, Richard M. Sherich, for courses in German language, literature, and culture. Additional materials include those related to the "German Across the Curriculum" program and departmental correspondence and planning documents from Sheirich's involvement in the Modern Languages Department, study abroad program, Radio Oldenborg, and various other committees and programs. Grant proposals, annual reports, sabbatical reports, and correspondence with colleagues and students are also included. Organization and Arrangement The collection is organized into the following two series: Richard Sheirich Papers PC.0020 2 Series 1: Course Materials, 1969-1993 and undated Series 2: Administrative Materials, 1955-2009 and undated Discarded Materials Audio cassettes of recordings: Hitler's speech to the Reichstag, 1 September 1939; Faust: Der Tragodie, Erster Teil (Faust: The Tragedy, First Part); Walther von der Vogelweide, poems 1-14; Deutschland im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1941 Attack on Russia (Germany in the Second World War, Attack on Russia in 1941); Fruhe Zeugnisse Deutscher Dichtung Zauberspruche, Hildebrandslied in Alt Hoch Deutsch (German seal spells "Hildebrand's Song" in Old High German); Mark Hussey's "Third Reich" Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog. Subject Terms Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) -- Faculty Education Curricula German language German language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers History Teaching Sheirich, Richard, 1927-2011 Universities and colleges--Departments Genre and Form of Materials Correspondence Lectures Outlines and syllabi Reports Series 1: Course Materials 1969-1993 and undated Box 1, Folder 1 German 121 Civilization and Culture undated Box 1, Folder 2 German 121 Exams undated Box 1, Folder 3 German 121 undated Box 1, Folder 4 German 121 1980-1982 Box 1, Folder 5 German 121 Fahrplan 1988 Box 1, Folder 6 German 121 First Meeting undated Box 1, Folder 7 German Culture and Civilization German 121 undated Box 1, Folder 8 German 121 1986 Box 1, Folder 9 German 120 Culture and Civilization undated Box 1, Folder 10 German 120 Miscellaneous 1990 Box 1, Folder 11 German 110 Medieval Literature Bibliography undated Box 1, Folder 12 German 110 Medieval German Literature Exams undated Box 1, Folder 13 German 120 German Culture and Civilization undated Box 1, Folder 14 German 112 Student Opinions undated Box 1, Folder 15 German 111 1993 Box 1, Folder 16 (Heusler) Heroic Saga of Heroes Book undated Box 1, Folder 17 German 123 German Literature from 800-1750 1969 Box 1, Folder 18 German 123 First Meeting undated Box 1, Folder 19 German 123 Second Meeting undated Box 1, Folder 20 German 123 Sixth Meeting undated Box 1, Folder 21 German 123 Ruodlieb undated Box 1, Folder 22 German Language Origins undated Box 1, Folder 23 German 123 1992 Box 1, Folder 24 German 123 Tristan undated Richard Sheirich Papers PC.0020 3 Series 1: Course Materials 1969-1993 and undated Box 1, Folder 25 German 123 Spielmannsepik undated Box 1, Folder 26 German 123 Part B German Culture undated Box 1, Folder 27 Merseburg Incantations undated Box 1, Folder 28 Medieval Literature Lecture Notes undated Box 1, Folder 29 Medieval Narrative Poems undated Box 1, Folder 30 Attila undated Box 1, Folder 31 Middle High German undated Box 1, Folder 32 Humanism and Reformation (Grant's Notes) undated Box 1, Folder 33 Charlemagne (Karl der Grosse) undated Box 1, Folder 34 The Ludwig Song undated Box 1, Folder 35 Ottfried's Gospel Book undated Box 1, Folder 36 Courtly Epic General History undated Box 1, Folder 37 German 120 Oaths of Strasbourg undated Box 1, Folder 38 Hildebrandslied undated Box 1, Folder 39 German-U.S Relations undated Box 1, Folder 40 Europe: Germany's Position undated Box 1, Folder 41 History 335 Europe Since 1914 undated Box 1, Folder 42 German Reunification Issues undated Box 1, Folder 43 After the Wall: History and Problems undated Box 1, Folder 44 German and American Constitutions undated Box 1, Folder 45 Germany: Political Parties 1945-1994 undated Box 1, Folder 46 Weimar Germany: Political Parties to 1944 undated Box 1, Folder 47 DDR Party Development undated Box 1, Folder 48 Post War Society and Economy in East and West Germany undated Box 1, Folder 49 German Experience, Die Zeit undated Box 1, Folder 50 Development of Politcal Parties to 1918 undated Box 1, Folder 51 Fichte and Hegel undated Box 1, Folder 52 Der Grune Heinrich undated Box 1, Folder 53 Bonaventura: Nachtwachen undated Box 1, Folder 54 Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday undated Box 1, Folder 55 Heine: The Silesian Weavers undated Box 1, Folder 56 Fallersleben: The Song of the Germans undated Box 1, Folder 57 Barbarossa/Kyffhauser undated Box 1, Folder 58 Schiessbefel "Shooting Instruction" undated Box 1, Folder 59 Hartmann von Aue undated Box 1, Folder 60 Nibelungenlied undated Box 1, Folder 61 Immanuel Kant: The Categorical Imperative undated Box 1, Folder 62 Kant Enlightenment: Moses Mendelsohn undated Box 1, Folder 63 Kant "What is Enlightenment?" undated Box 1, Folder 64 Kant "What is Enlightenment?" undated Box 2, Folder 1 Reinhardt: Germany 2000 years undated Box 2, Folder 2 German 113 Eighteenth Century Text undated Box 2, Folder 3 German 113 Master Texts undated Box 2, Folder 4 Sturm und Drang History Survey Introduction (1700-1770) undated Box 2, Folder 5 Pre-Romantik and Romantik undated Box 2, Folder 6 18th Century German Culture undated Box 2, Folder 7 German 113 Syllabus First Semester Survey 18th Century undated Box 2, Folder 8 Leibniz Photocopies "Unvorgreiflich Gedankin" undated Box 2, Folder 9 Leibniz von dem Verhangnisse undated Box 2, Folder 10 Leibniz: Biographisches Monads undated Box 2, Folder 11 Eighteenth Century undated Box 2, Folder 12 Schaftsbury undated Box 2, Folder 13 Deismus undated Box 2, Folder 14 Boileau undated Box 2, Folder 15 German 113 Second Meeting undated Box 2, Folder 16 German 131 First Meeting 18th Century German Literature undated Box 2, Folder 17 German 131 First Meeting