Welcome to the album pages of alumni who studied and earned degrees in the Department of German at The Ohio State University from the 1940-1950's.
We hope you might have a photo or two you would like to have included in our Alumni Album. If so, please email the photo(s) in jpeg format to our Academic Program Coordinator. Include a description, date, and the name of the photographer.
![G. Gillespie PhD 1961 in German at Ohio State G. Gillespie PhD 1961 in German at Ohio State](/sites/default/files/styles/50/public/Gillespie-G_MA1958-PhD1961.jpg?itok=p5-gmNTa)
Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie
MA 1958, PhD 1961
Dissertation: The Dramatic Works of Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein
Advisor: Prof. Naumann
Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Comparative Literature
Stanford University
![I. Edse PhD 1960 in German at Ohio State I. Edse PhD 1960 in German at Ohio State](/sites/default/files/styles/50/public/Ilsedore-M-Edse_late50s.jpg?itok=R8TxXTJO)
Ilsedore M. Edse (1918-2015)
BA 1952, MA 1954, PhD 1960
Dissertation: Das Bild der Heimat bei einigen ostpreussischen Autoren seit der Jahrhundertwende
Advisor: Prof. Seidlin
Associate Professor Emerita of German
The Ohio State University
![Alumnus Henry Kratz Jr Ohio State German Department Alumnus Henry Kratz Jr Ohio State German Department](/sites/default/files/styles/50/public/Henry-Kratz.jpg?itok=Kn1ARvav)
Henry Kratz, Jr. (1922-2008)
MA 1946, PhD 1949
Dissertation: Über den Wortschatz der Erotik im Spätmittelhochdeutschen und Frühneuhochdeutschen
Professor Emeritus of Germanic philology and lexicography
University of Tennessee