Herbert Windolf

Born in 1936 in Wiesbaden, Germany, Herbert Windolf is a German citizen. Since the early 1990s, he and his wife, Ute, have resided in Prescott, Arizona. Married in 1961, they have three children.

At age twenty, Herbert undertook a motorcycle trip through Libya and Egypt, followed in 1960 by a work assignment in Paris, France, both impacting his subsequent life.

In 1964, he joined his German employer, a machine tool company, as a technician for transfer to Canada, and in 1970 relocated to Chicago as sales manager. He became managing director of the U.S. affiliate and eventually the importer for the company.

After moving to Prescott, he facilitated various scientific courses at a local adult education center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology.

He has translated and published numerous books of various authors and has written a biographical account of his wife’s grandparents and parents who were Lutheran missionaries in Sumatra.

Widely traveled, he has written and published numerous travelogues. These, together with his scientific articles, were published in the Quarterly of the Planetary Studies Foundation, where he is Vice-President Emeritus. .

This tenth volume, a collection of Favorite Poems, continues Herb’s views expounded in Observations and Reflections, Pondering What Is, Otherwise, Musings, Contemplations, Thoughts, Searching, Shadows and Light, and Insights in now more than 1700 poems written in the course of many years.