Preface II

Summary

As we encounter Edelgard E. DuBruck, we are impressed and charmed by her attitude, her conversation, her appearance, her behavior, and her intellectual bearing. High quality characterizes every one of her writings, books, articles, and reviews, in whatever language she has chosen, because her studies as well as the vicissitudes of her life have familiarized her not only with German (her native tongue) but also with English (now her main language), and with French and Spanish which she taught for years at Marygrove College, along with Humanities. In so doing, she has acquired an exceptionally vast cultural background, rare in fact among university personnel.

Those who know her personally discover soon in her glance and smile a poignant melancholy which appears even during the happiest moments of her life. This touch of sadness derives doubtlessly from the greatest affliction she has endured: in her youth she was forced to flee from Breslau (now called Wrocław), Silesia, in 1945, when the Red army advanced. In West Germany, she studied at Braunschweig and Freiburg (Black Forest), and was fortunate to receive a scholarship in the United States, choosing Michigan, whose climate was comparable to that of her former home. After her emigration in the 1950s, she embraced the USA gratefully, accepting its freedom and security, and became an esteemed citizen who contributed to this country by her teaching and other academic tasks.