Fritz Marti Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir [Hardcover]

Fritz Marti: Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir is the story of Martis encounter with and adaptation to America and a look at American academic life during the early Twentieth Century.Fritz Marti (18941991) came from Switzerland, where he had completed his doctorate in philosophy, to The University of Oregon, Eugene, in 1923. He was a serious, committed scholar in the tradition of German Idealism. The book is about his search for intellectual freedom in America.He was part of the evolution of higher education in the United States in the 20th Century and taught at colleges and universities across the country such as Oregon, Goucher, Maryland, Chicago and Notre Dame. He became passionate about the role of a college education.In 1947 he and his wife Gertrude Austin established a college preparatory school within a farm/home community in the hills of southern Ohio. It exists today as The Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio.This is the story of his encounter with and adaptation to America and a look at American academic life during the early Twentieth Century.AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Family HistoryWinterthurBernChapter 2: Military ServiceInfantryMotor CorpChapter 3: ZurichMedicusChapter 4: Search for a JobChapter 5: OregonChapter 6: Going EastGoucher CollegeUniversity of MarylandChapter 7: Washington, DCGertrude AustinGertrude and FritzChapter 8: Chevy ChaseInvitation to ChicagoUniversity of Maryland: OverviewUniversity of ChicagoChapter 9: BrinklowChapter 10: OhioBerglihofChapter 11: Fritz Marti: AmericanAppendix A: Gertrudes Story: House on a HillSources and ReferencesJudith Baumrin, the oldest of Fritz Martis six children, has pursued a career in education as a professor of psychology at several universities with publications in peer reviewed journals and in 1979 established a center for remedial learning.