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Although this website is a dot com, it's not a commercial site. This site serves as my research notebook into the study of the history of Buffalo, New York and the study of German Language and Literature. Buffalo had a large German population in its earlier days, so the two fields of study come together quite nicely. The Oldest German Marriage Newspaper - an article from the September 25, 1931 issue of the Syracuse Union. An Index to the People of Archivaria:
Buffalo and It's German Community - Translation of the history of Buffalo from a German perspective. The work is divided into 4 sections:
History of the
Germans in Buffalo and Erie County
The Life and Experiences of a Layman - written by Charles Boller, Sunday School Superintendent of the First Church of the Evangelical Community at the corner of Spruce and Sycamore.
The Book of Germans in America - Selections from the 948-page Das Buch der Deutschen in America published in 1909 by the National German-American Alliance ("The Bund"). The Lutherans These texts are listed in chronological order, according to publication date, rather than alphabetically. The Destinies and Adventures of the Stephanists who emigrated from Saxony to America - an 1839 chronicle of the immigration voyage of the Saxons, who settled in St. Louis under the leadership of Martin Stephan. This history gives details on the ouster of Bishop Stephan and the early beginnings of the group who later formed the Missouri Synod. Pastoral Letter and Correspondence between J. A. A. Grabau and the Missouri Synod - Letters describing the doctrinal differences between the Buffalo and Missouri Synod written between 1841 and 1845. The Third Synodal Letter of the Buffalo Synod - issued in 1853 and containing information on the excommunication of Pastor L. F. E. Krause, the schism in the Michigan Congregations of Pastor Winkler and Pastor Grabau's explanation of the difference between the visible and the invisible church. The Fourth Synodal Letter of the Buffalo Synod - published in 1853. Included are reasons for sending a pastoral delegation to Europe, the establishment of the Martin Luther College, further disputes with Missouri, other Lutheran synods and the Lutheran press in America and Europe. Tell It to the Church! - an appeal to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of North America written by J. A. A. Grabau and Heinrich von Rohr, outlining the Buffalo Synod's dispute with the Missouri Synod. Included on pages 7 and 9 are mentions of the takeover of the church in Eden, NY. History of the First German Lutheran Settlement in Altenburg, Perry County, Missouri written by Pastor Georg Schieferdecker and publish in 1865. This text describes the events leading to a schism in 1857 caused by disputes over chiliasm and charges of heresy against the congregation's pastor. Clarifications on the General Meeting held by the Synod of Buffalo by Johann An. A. Grabau - Pastor Grabau's chronicle of the 1865 - 1866 dispute in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Buffalo. What Grabau teaches and professes! or an Explanation of the previous Disputes in Pastor Grabau's Trinity Church of Buffalo - This text, written by a member of the Trinity Congregation which separated itself from Pastor Grabau in May of 1866, provides an insider's look at the dispute which divided the German Lutheran Immigrant Community of Buffalo from 1839 to 1866. Kirchliches Informatorium - the ecclesiastic journal of the Buffalo Synod written by Heinrich von Rohr and published in volumes 15 - 21 These articles are taken from Volumes 15, and 17 - 19, (1867 through 1872) after the three-way split of the Buffalo Synod.
The Life of the Reverend J. An. A. Grabau - Imprisoned for his religious beliefs, Pastor Grabau emigrated from Prussia with his congregation in 1839. This biography describes a prison escape, a perilous journey across the Atlantic, and 3 distinct schisms in the Evangelical Lutheran population of Buffalo.
The 50 Year Jubilee of the First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church - A 57 page booklet issued on September 8, 1889 to celebrate the 50th Birthday of the First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. The 1835 - 1854 Old Lutheran Emigration Roster: taken from Volume II of Wilhelm Iwan's The Old Lutheran Emigration at the Middle of the 19th Century. A Brief History of the Old Lutheran Immigrants and the Buffalo Synod: 1838 - 1867 - The translator's attempt to sew together the various texts on Lutherans into one narrative.
Newspapers and Journals provide insight into the lives and concerns of the region's inhabitants. A brief history of Buffalo's German Press in the 19th Century, from the 948-page German-American history, Das Buch der Deutschen in America can be found on pages 522 - 527. Pan Am Journal: Music and the German-American Experience - This page was originally developed for a Social Sciences Reference Project at the University at Buffalo. Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! - History of the German singing societies. The Power of Song - Translation of the June 25, 1901 coverage of the Opening Ceremonies for the 30th Song Festival of the North American Saengerbund. The Democracy - an English language newspaper published back in the 1850s.
Täglicher Buffalo Demokrat und Weltbürger [The Daily Buffalo Democrat and World Citizen]: This newspaper was formed by the merger on April 18, 1853 of Der Weltbürger, Buffalo's oldest German newspaper which started publication on December 2, 1837, and the Täglicher Buffalo Demokrat, first published in 1851.
Buffalo Volksfreund was a German language, Catholic newspaper published in Buffalo from 1868 to 1982.
As with other Sunday newspapers, Die Buffalo Tribüne was meant to educate and entertain. Actual news items were kept to the 7th & 8th columns of the front page and those were generally recaps of the week's major stories. The remaining 7½ pages were dedicated to cultural themes, serialized literary offerings, humorous tidbits and advertisements.
Cyrenius Chapin - a biography of a Buffalo physician and hero in the War of 1812, published in the 1868/69 edition of The Buffalo Medical Journal Twenty-second Annual Report of the German Free Congregation of Philadelphia - containing names and addresses of congregation members, financial statements, library holdings, brief history of the congregation, and school curriculum. The Adventures of the Pilot from Tsingtau - An autobiography of Gunther Plüschow, the World War I German aviator who escaped the siege of the German colony in China and confinement in an English prisoner of war camp. After the First World War: Articles from the Syracuse Union - The Syracuse Union was a German language newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. A Comprehensive Development of Our Waterfront - A 1927 article from Town Tidings. Deutsch-Amerika - A syndicated magazine published in Buffalo by the Buffalo Demokrat, focusing on World War I reports from Germany and the involvement of the German-Americans in the United States. The magazine starts at Volume 2, No. 1, January 1, 1916 as a continuation of the Kriegs-Album, which was published by the New York Staats-Zeitung. Once war in Germany was declared April 6, 1917 coverage shifted to German-American support for the United States. Germany orders Bund be dropped - Buffalo Evening News article from March 1, 1938. Germany's Sixteen Greatest World War One Heroes - A sixteen part series featured in the Dunkirk Evening Observer, September 3 - 27, 1927. How do I become an Officer in the Luftwaffe? - 4th edition of a German Air Force Recruiting booklet published in 1943. Miscellaneous Articles about Buffalo and the German Community during World War I The Modern Santa Claus - A Cartoon from the December 20, 1915 edition of the Buffalo Demokrat My Life as a Pilot - the autobiography of World War One Flying Ace Ernst Udet. Old Buffalo, 1832 - A 1909 Reproduction used to raise funds for a Nurses' Home at the German Hospital. The Red Fighter Pilot - The Autobiography of Manfred von Richthofen. War Letters of German Students - Letters from former students during 1914-1915 World War I compiled by their teacher. War Letters of a Surgeon in Hindenburg's Army - The accounts of Senior Surgeon Dr. Paul Gerhard Plenz on the Eastern Front, 1915 - 1916. United States Air Mail Service Pilot's Directions - Long before Jepson charts were available, pilots navigated using landmarks and compass directions. Here's a 1921 pubication by the Government Printing Office giving directions from New York to San Francisco.
The Liedertafel of 1860, 1868, and 1883 Buffalo Harbor during a Storm - from History of the Germans in Buffalo and Erie County, N.Y., page 111. The Park Bridge across Delaware Avenue, circa 1898 Historic Tour of the Buffalo River and the Shipping Canal The Erie Basin Marina & The Naval Park, Buffalo NY A Lockport Cruise on the Erie Canal
Hildebrand's Song - a fragment from the Old High German circa 850. Walther von der Vogelweide - Under the Linden, a poem which made quite a fuss in its day for raising a peasant topic to a courtly form, and I sat upon a Stone, our wandering minstrel's report of 13th Century politics. Mourning for a Devastated Germany, 1637 by Andreas Gryphius Life and the Ideal - Friedrich Schiller was the poet, who wrote the words which put the joy in Beethoven's Ode to Joy. "Das Ideal und das Leben", as it is called in German, represents the poet's struggle to unite the classical knowledge of antiquity with the modern advances of late 18th Century science and the Philosophy of the Age of Reason. It's a monster of a poem, but if nothing else take a good look at the 8th stanza, which starts "If the dead aspire to creation". Goethe - Goethe's exploration of the soul of man in relation to his world provided a major change in thought and helped lead the way to the modern study of psychology. Goethe's autobiography, Part I. Friedrich Hölderlin's Bread and Wine No. 7 not only influenced the German Romantic Movement. It also influenced 20th Century German Philosophy. This poem is the basis of Martin Heidegger's essay What are Poets for?. Heinrich Heine - In the introduction to his book 1985 Anthony
Burgess wrote "Revolutions are usually the work of disgruntled
intellectuals with the gift for gab." Exiled from Germany because of his
political beliefs and his Jewish heritage, Heine had good reason to be
disgruntled. Here are two fine examples: The Silesian Weavers, in
support of the weavers' work strikes of the 1840s and The Valkyrie, with an
explanation after the poem. Your Absent but Devoted Husband: A poem by a German singer participating at the Pan-American Exposition, transcribed in the June 24, 1901 edition of the Buffalo Volksfreund. Hyacinths by Theodore Storm. Lullaby by Clemens Brentano.
The Fall Day and Departure by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Venus and Mars - Poems which interpret the relationships of men and women. This Life is a Pumpkin by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, 1680. The Lederhose Saga by Baron von Münchhausen, 1911. Two Poems by Ilse Frapan The Pastry Cook Illustrated - an 1854 edition of architectural cake designs by Antonin Carème of Paris. In French with limited translations.
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