Jean Isabel Hübener
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Full name: Jean Isabel Hübener
Nicknames/Other names: Dr. Jean Hamilton
Birth: 15 August 1904 in Jarrahdale, Australia
Death: 15 January 1981 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts with honors in French and German (1927) - University of Western Australia, Australia
- PhD in Mediaeval German and French - University of Bonn, Germany
Dates employed: 1951-1967
Faculty: Arts
Department: Modern Languages
Position held:
Professor of German (1951-1952)
- Department of German Head (1952-1967)
Activities/contributions:
- Efforts led to the creation of the UNB Department of German.
- First head of Department of German.
- Made significant contributiont to the Harriet Irving Library's collection of German language and literature works.
- Implementation of graduate studies in German in 1964, during Dr. Hübener's time as head of Department of German.
- During time as head, the Department of German became renound within the Maritime Provinces for German studies.
Additional notes:
Dissertation subject was "The role of the landscape in German and French mediaeval courtly epics."
- Appointed to Guggeinheim Fellowship in 1949 to participate in research on intellectual resistance to the Nazis.
- Named emeriti at Encaenia from UNB on May 15, 1975
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