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Before coming to the United States to study as a Fulbright Fellow in 1953, Sekler taught seven years at the Technische Hochschule, and holds the little of professor extraordinarius there...
Professor Clemen was born in 1866 at Sommerfeld, near Leipzig. He attended the Fuerstenschule in Grimma, and later studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Strassburg. In 1893 he was made Provincial Conservator of the Rhine Province, and in 1898 became Professor Extraordinarius of the History of Art at Bonn. He was called to the Art Academy at Dusseldorf as Professor of the History of Art and of Literature in 1899, but in 1902 was recalled to Bonn...
From 1884 to 1901, Professor Kuhnemann was Privatdozent at the University of Marburg, and in 1901 he was made Professor Extraordinarius. In 1903 he was called to Bonn, and in the same year he was charged by the Prussian Government with organizing the newly founded Royal Academy at Posen, a task which he fulfilled with singular success. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent by his government on a lecturing tour through the United States, during which he spoke to audiences in most of the important cities and universities...
...fact is, that for a German professor ordinarus or well-established extraordinarius with fair prospect of a successful career, the American university salary will offer no possible attraction; and the reason is not far to seek. It may lie partly, to be sure, in the natural disinclination to expatriation so notably characteristic of the German official as well as military and aristocratic class, especially in so far as expatriation is supposed to involve retirement from the arena of advanced investigation. This explanation is, however, unnecessary. The German professor is decidedly better off financially than the American; and we shall deceive...
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