German Leaves - Hardcover

Heide Ph D, Ralph P Vander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1479767905 ISBN 13: 9781479767908

Publisher: Xlibris, 2013

Synopsis

Ralph attended public high school in Ogden, Utah, where he was born. His higher education began at Weber State University and continued at the University of Utah where, following 3 years studying in the Netherlands, he completed B.A. and Masters Degrees. He earned a doctorate in Germanic and Hispanic studies at the State University of New York in Albany and also studied at universities in California, Switzerland and Spain. He has continued to travel extensively throughout the world, including several stays in foreign countries with the Experiment in International Living as leader of student home placement groups. Dr. Brewster Ghesilin, at the University of Utah who encouraged Ralph to write and stressed render, render, render in order to achieve a vital fullness. Be sparing yet incisive with language and recounting. An author should convey the greatest meaning through wise choice of words while avoiding verbosity. In reading many postwar German works such as novels by the Gruppe 47, who formed a group that was always a very loose group, he quickly perceived that the same philosophy prevailed as it did with Hemingway. Words were to be treated with the greatest respect and used sparingly and precisely. Ralphs working life has been devoted to education and supervision in colleges and high schools. For the last 12 years he has been engaged in the evaluation of schools throughout the world. He is fluent in Dutch, German and Spanish, passable in French, dabbles in Italian and Bahasa Indonesian, and is able to utter a few words in other languages. He serves on the Arts and Humanities Committee, as an advisor to the Dean of Humanities at Weber State University and writes articles and reviews as a guest columnist from time to time for local newspapers. Ralph and his wife, Judith Howell Vander Heide, last year published with Xlibris, Chris and Louisa, a novel which spans 125 years of Mormonism, polygamy and changes in the church from its founding by Joseph Smith in New York

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479767905
• ISBN 13: 9781479767908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294