Don heinrich tolzmann cincinnati
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Whatever Happened to the Plagiarism Charges Leveled Against Don Heinrich Tolzmann?
In late 2003 Don Heinrich Tolzmann was accused of plagiarism. What's happened since? At the time the allegation was levelled few paid attention. And the matter seemed to drift. But HNN has learned that the University of Cincinnati, where Tolzmann is the current director of the German-American Studies Program, Curator of the German-Americana Collection, and Bibliographer for Germanic Languages and Literatures, Slavic and Philosophy, is conducting an internal investigation.
Tolzmann is a prominent German history scholar, the President of the Society for German-American Studies and German-American Citizens League of Greater Cincinnati as well as an editor or contributor to several publications.
The accusations arose in a review of his book, The German-American Experience, which appeared on the H-Net website in Dec. 2003. The review came to the attention of HNN after a recent reference to it on Correntewire.com. Robert W. Frizzell, the author of the review, noted that Tolzmann, whom he had met years before, is a"tireless promoter of German-American studies--a field stigmatized for much of the twentieth century and, even after the ethnic revival which began in the 1970s, much under-studied b
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Don Heinrich Tolzmann German-Americana Collection
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Collection
Identifier: GA-17-01
Scope and Content
Don Heinrich Tolzmann accumulated this collection of German-American throughout his career. The collection contains material stretching from the nineteenth century to the present day, and ranges from newspapers to personal letters, census records, spelling books, and almanacs published in both English and German. There are also several sets of photographs of buildings, people, and landscapes along with a tourism guide to the United States.
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This collection is open for research.
Biography of Biography or History
Don Heinrich Tolzmann is the retired Director of the German-American Studies program at the University of Cincinnati and is the former Curator of the German-Americana Collection at the University of Cincinnati Libraries. Tolzmann received his MA from the University of Kentucky and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He began his career at the University of Cincinnati as a librarian and German bibliographer and he was instrumental in bringing together the German-American collection as a separate special collection.
Tolzmann served as President of the Society for
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