Speaker Series

Dr. Christopher Wickham and Dr. Daniel Gelo

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THE GERMAN TEXAS FRONTIER IN 1853

As part of the Texas State Historical Association’s TX Talks series, co-sponsored jointly by the German Texan Heritage Society and the Dallas Goethe Center,  Dr. Christopher Wickham and Dr. Daniel Gelo will discuss their new book The German Texas Frontier in 1853.  The book examines the efforts of Ferdinand Lindheimer, the “Father of Texas Botany,” to help his fellow immigrants adapt to the physical and social environments of Antebellum Texas through his editorship of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung thereby beginning creation of a unique German Texan identity.  

Both authors are professors emeriti at the University of Texas at San Antonio; Dr. Wickham in German and Dr. Gelo in anthropology who specialized in Comanche culture and linguistics.  Their publications on German Texan and Comanche relations include Comanches, Captives, and Germans, and Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus about an attempted development of a Comanche alphabet stemming from the 1847 Meusebach-Comanche Treaty. 

 

This spring presentation is part of the Texas State Historical Association’s Texas Talk series and will be hosted and moderated by the TSHA with introduction and closing remarks by GTHS board member and speaker series chair, Dr. Barbara Berthold, Program Director of Graduate Success and Retention in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Here is the zoom link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88950193377?pwd=Nd9Les48CkbFFssYVOniQyiwynv9gr.1

Meeting ID: 889 5019 3377

Passcode: 689542

 

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