John R. Wendel papers, 1922-2016

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Wendel, John R.
Title
John R. Wendel papers
Dates
1922-2016 (inclusive)
Quantity
17.75 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 2137
Summary
The John R. Wendel papers (1922-2016) focus on Wendel's teaching career at the University of Arizona from 1967 to the late 1990s. Included in the collection are writings by Wendel and others, correspondence, news articles, publication extracts, notes, newsletters, pamphlets, and other materials, mainly regarding Wendel's teaching of German and the humanities. The collection also includes materials related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Wendel's father, John Max Wendel. John Wendel (b. 1935) received his B.A. from the University of Utah (1960) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut (1964 and 1966). He served a mission for the LDS Church in Germany from 1955 to 1958.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English, German

Historical NoteReturn to Top

John Wendel (b. 1935) received his B.A. from the University of Utah (1960) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut (1964 and 1966). He served a mission for the LDS Church in Germany from 1955 to 1958.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The John R. Wendel papers (1922-2000) focus on Wendel's teaching career at the University of Arizona from 1967 to the late 1990s. Included in the collection are writings by Wendel and others, correspondence, news articles, publication extracts, notes, newsletters, pamphlets, and other materials, mainly regarding Wendel's teaching of German and the humanities. The collection also includes materials related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Wendel's father, John Max Wendel.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Gift of John R. Wendel in 2004 and 2018.

Processing Note

Processed by Lisa DeMille in 2005.

Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2010.

Addendum processed by William Challis in 2019.

Separated Materials

Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P1199).

Related Materials

See also the John Max Wendel papers (ACCN 2191) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Personal papersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1-3
Correspondence
1966-1998
1 4-5
Letters of Recommendation
These include letters written for Wendel as well as letters written by Wendel for others.
1969-1994
1 6
"The Grand Inquisitor"
1976-1977
1 7
"Prometheus and Job"
1975-1987
1 8-9
Austria Grants and Teacher Exchange
1969-1993
1 10
Autobiographical Notes
2 1
Class Assignments
Classes assigned to Wendel to teach at the University of Arizona.
1989-1990
2 2
Job Opportunities
1966-1971
2 3
Merit Pay Policies
1981-1988
2 4
Poetry and Writings
2 5
Retirement
1996-1997
2 6
Sabbaticals
1977-1996
2 7
Speech to Adlerian Psychologists
2 8
Tenure
1970s-1996
2 9
Vita
2 10
West German Mission Reunions
1968-1971
2 11
Miscellaneous

Publications by WendelReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
Correspondence
1967-1995
3 2
Copyright Permissions
1972-1975
3 3-4
German for Reading
Correspondence, notes, research material, and other papers surrounding this German textbook.
1968-1989
3 5
German Text Excerpts
3 6
Programmed Reader
3 7
Prospectus
1974,1977
3 8
Publication Text Notes
1968
3 9
Reading Pages

Class MaterialsReturn to Top

This series contains class files, include notes, articles, publication excerpts and readings about the subject listed.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1-2
German 273
1999
4 3
German 276
1996
5 1
German 375: Alfred Adler
1992-1997
5 2
German 375: Alban Berg
1983-1999
5 3-4
German 375: Sigmund Freud
1970-1999
5 5
German 375: Gustav Klimt
1970-1999
5 6
German 375: Oskar Kokaschka
1970s-1994
5 7
German 375: Karl Kraus
1976-1999
5 8
German 375: Adolf Loos
1994-1997
5 9
German 375: Ernst Mach
1992-1995
5 10
German 375: Alma Mahler
1991-1998
5 11
German 375: Gustav Mahler
1980-1998
6 1
German 375: Max Reinhardt
1994
6 2
German 375: Egon Schiele
1994-1997
6 3
German 375: Arthur Schnitzler
1977-1999
6 4-5
German 375: Arnold Schoenberg
1950s-1999
6 6
German 375: Johann Strauss
1990-1998
6 7
German 375: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1952-1997
6 8
German 375: Anton von Webern
1955-1995
6 9
German 375: Otto Wagner
1990-1998
6 10
German 375: Ludwig Wittgenstein
1990-1992
6 11
German 375: Stefan Zweig
1985-1996
7 1-2
German 375: Bound Publication Excerpts
7 3
German 375: "The Life of the Mind," Readings
1986
7 4
German 375: Student papers
1989-1991
7 5
German 375: Syllabi
1989-2000
7 6-7
German 375: Vienna, Articles and Book Excerpts
1960s-1990s
8 1
German 375: Vienna, Notes
1991-2000
8 2
German 375: Miscellaneous
9 1-3
German 379
1999
9 4
German 410a-b
1994-1998
9 5
Honors 295
1990
9 6-8
Honors Colloquia
1975-1982
10 1-6
Honors Colloquia
1984-1998
10 7
Humanities 50b
1973-1980
10 8-10
Summer Seminars
1978-1986
20 1
German 200
undated
20 2
German 203
undated
20 3
German 205: Nineteenth Century German Literature
undated
20 4
German 273: German Literary Fairy Tales - Readings
1999
20 5
German 273: German Romanticism
undated
20 6
German 276: German Poetry
undated
20 7
German 277: Eroticism and Love
undated
20 8
German 345: Yiddish Literature in Translation
undated
20 9
German 375: Love, Decay and Madness in Vienna
1992-2000
20 10-12
German 375: Love, Decay and Madness in Vienna - Readings
undated
21 1-2
German 379: Religion in German Culture
1970-2000
21 3-5
German 379: Religion in German Culture - Readings
undated
21 6-7
German 410b: Cultural Development of Germany - Readings
undated
21 8
German 2040: Intensive German
2008
21 9
German Drama Seminar
undated
22 1
Honors Colloquium: What is Man? - Readings
1988
22 2-3
Honors Colloquium: Chaos, Order and Relationship - Readings
1988
22 4-6
Honors 295: Conversations About God - Readings
1989
22 7-9
Honors 295: Conversations About Love - Readings
1990
23 1
Humanities 250
1991
23 2-3
Humanities 250a - Readings
1991
23 4
Music and Book Reserve Lists
undated
23 5
Gradebook
1995-2000
23 6
Miscellaneous Overheads
undated

Subject Files, A-ZReturn to Top

This series contains notes, articles, publication excerpts, pamphlets, and other papers collected by Wendel for personal purposes and class use.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
11 1-3
Adlerian Psychology
1970s
11 4
Aeschylus
11 5
Hans Christian Andersen
1997
11 6
Approaches to Literature
1975
11 7
Aristophanes
11 8
Aristotle
1973-1986
11 9
Arizona Homer Institute
1987-1989
11 10
Jane Austen
1973-1985
12 1
Austrian Cultural Institute
1988-1993
12 2
Austrian Literature
1968-1988
12 3
"Austrian Studies"
1990-1991
12 4
Baroque
1960-1991
12 5
Samuel Beckett
1975-1982
12 6
Berlin Museum
1970s
12 7-8
Bible
1950s-1990
12 9
Bound Reading Materials
13 1
Cervantes
1985
13 2
Chaucer
1979-2000
13 3
Checkov
1970s
13 4
Counseling Case Study
1960-1973
13 5
Dante
1965-1990
13 6
Charles Darwin
1979-1987
13 7
Descartes
1990
13 8
John Dewey
13 9
Dostoevsky
1980s
13 10
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
1975
13 11-12
Education
1950s-1970s
13 13
Eighteenth Century Art
13 14
Albert Einstein
1972-1979
13 15
Epictetus
14 1
Desiderius Erasmus
1970-1991
14 2
EST Training
Latin for "it is," est was a large group awareness training developed by Werner Erhard. EST also stands for Erhard Seminar Training.
1970s-1980s
14 3
Experiment in International Living
1966-1977
14 4
Family
14 5
Faust
1990s
14 6
Viktor E. Frankl
14 7
German Study Hints and Review Notes
14 8
Gilgamesh
14 9
Great Books Program
14 10
Greek Art
1970s
14 11
Martin Heidegger
1986-1989
14 12
Ernest Hemingway
1981
14 13
Hippocrates
1952
15 1
Eric Hoffer
1983
15 2
Homer
1958-1991
15 3
Humanities and Education
1970s
15 4
David Hume
1974
15 5
Henrik Ibsen
1971
15 6
Islam
1979-1980
15 7
William James
15 8
Thomas Jefferson
1986-1990
15 9
Immanuel Kant
1974
15 10
Jews
1967-1971
15 11
Latin Textbook
15 12
Learning, Moods, and Emotions
1989-1992
15 13
Literature and Criticism
1960s
15 14
Man in Relation to the World
1988-1991
15 15
Sterling M. McMurrin and Education
15 16
Middle Ages
1973
15 17
Music
1965-1992
15 18
Nature of the Good Life
15 19
New Testament
1970-1996
16 1
Old Testament
1977-1992
16 2
Ontological Design Course
1989
16 3
Octavio Paz
1988
16 4
Poetry
16 5-6
Psychology
1950s-1970s
16 7
Ramses II
1968-1986
16 8
Religion
1958-1963
16 9-10
Religion and German Literature
1976-1989
16 11
Reserve Books for Classes
1980
17 1
Science
1991
17 2
St. Augustine
1976-1991
17 3
Tartuffe
17 4
Teaching Observations
1990
17 5
Transactional Analysis
1973-1974
17 6
Victim, Witness, and Crime Training
1983
17 7
Heinrich von Kleist
1958-1959
17 8
Miscellaneous

Subject Files - Individuals, A-ZReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
24 1
Arnim, Ludwig Joachim von
undated
24 2
Bach, Johann Sebastian
undated
24 3
Beckmann, Max
undated
24 4
Beethoven, Ludwig van
undated
24 5
Bernstein, Leonard
undated
24 6
Biermann, Wolf
undated
24 7
Bingen, Hildegard von
undated
24 8
Bloch, Ernest
undated
24 9
Boehme, Jacob
undated
24 10
Boll, Heinrich
undated
24 11
Brahms, Johannes
undated
24 12
Brecht, Bertolt
undated
24 13
Brentano, Clemens
undated
24 14
Bronner, Gerhard
undated
24 15
Bruckner, Anton
undated
24 16
Buchner, Georg
undated
24 17
Buschs, Wilhelm
undated
24 18
Caillebotte, Gustave
undated
24 19
Cezanne, Paul
undated
24 20
Chagall, Marc
2014
24 21
Chamisso, Adelbert von
undated
24 22
Droste-Hulshoff, Annette von
undated
24 23
Drucker, Peter
undated
24 24
Durer, Albrecht
undated
24 25
Durrenmatt, Friedrich
undated
25 1
Eckhart von Hochheim, Johannes "Meister"
undated
25 2
Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von
undated
25 3
Feuerbach, Ludwig
undated
25 4
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
undated
25 5
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich
undated
25 6
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard
undated
25 7
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
undated
25 8
Fouque', Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de la Motte
undated
25 9
Friedrich, Kaspar David
undated
25 10
Frisch, Max
undated
25 11
Goering, Reinhard
undated
25 12-14
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
undated
25 15
Gotthelf, Jeremias
undated
25 16
Grass, Gunter
undated
25 17
Grillparzer, Franz
undated
25 18
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
undated
25 19
Gropius, Walter and the Bauhaus
undated
25 20
Hebbel, Friedrich
undated
25 21
Heesters, Johannes
undated
25 22
Heine, Heinrich
undated
25 23
Herder, Johann Gottfried von
undated
25 24
Hesse, Hermann
undated
25 25
Hindemith, Paul
undated
25 26
Hitler, Adolf
undated
26 1
Hochhuth, Rolf
undated
26 2-4
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus
undated
26 5
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
undated
26 6
Holderlin, Friedrich
undated
26 7
Humboldt, Alexander von
undated
26 8
Jesus
undated
26 9
Jung, Karl Gustav
undated
26 10
Kafka, Franz
undated
26 11
Kandinsky, Vasily
undated
26 12
Kastner, Erich
undated
26 13
Kaufmann, Wilhelm
undated
26 14
Kleist, Heinrich von
undated
26 15
Kohl, Helmut
undated
26 16
Krakauer, Jon
undated
26 17
Lasker-Schuler, Else
undated
26 18-19
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
undated
27 1
Lorenz, Konrad
undated
27 2
Lucretius
undated
27 3
Luther, Martin
undated
27 4
Machiavelli, Niccolo'
undated
27 5
Mahler, Gustav
undated
27 6
Mailer, Norman
undated
27 7
Mann, Thomas
undated
27 8
Marx, Karl
undated
27 9
Mendelssohn, Felix
undated
27 10
Merkel, Angela
undated
27 11
Mill, John Stuart
undated
27 12
Miller, Arthur
undated
27 13
Milton, John
undated
27 14
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
undated
27 15
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
undated
27 16
Moore, Thomas
undated
27 17
Morike, Eduard
undated
27 18
Moses
undated
27 19
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
undated
27 20
Musil, Robert
undated
27 21
Nietzsche, Friedrich
undated
27 22
Novalis
undated
27 23
Pascal, Blaise
undated
27 24
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
undated
27 25
Plato
undated
27 26
Poe, Edgar Allen
undated
28 1
Racine, Jean
undated
28 2
Raimund, Ferdinand
undated
28 3
Rilke, Rainer Maria
undated
28 4
Renault, Georges
undated
28 5
Ruscha, Edward
undated
28 6
Sappho
undated
28 7
Sartre, Jean-Paul
undated
28 8
Schiller, Friedrich
undated
28 9
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
undated
28 10
Schopenhauer, Arthur
undated
28 11
Schubert, Franz
undated
28 12
Schumann, Robert
undated
28 13-14
Shakespeare, William
undated
28 15
Shaw, George Bernard
undated
28 16
Shepard, Sam
undated
28 17
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
undated
28 18
Sophocles
undated
28 19
Speer, Albert
undated
28 20
Storm, Theodor
undated
28 21
Strauss, Richard
undated
28 22
Swedenborg, Emanuel
undated
28 23
Swift, Jonathon
undated
29 1
Tepl, Johann von
undated
29 2
Thoreau, Henry David
undated
29 3
Tieck, Ludwig
undated
29 4
Trump, Donald
undated
29 5
Turgenev, Ivan
undated
29 6
Twain, Mark
undated
29 7
Virgil
undated
29 8
Voltaire
undated
29 9
Wagner, Richard
undated
29 10
Weber, Carl Maria von
undated
29 11
Wedekind, Frank
undated
29 12
Weill, Kurt
undated
29 13
Wollstonecraft, Mary
undated

Subject Files - Themes, A-ZReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
30 1
Distinctions between the different kinds of truth
undated
30 2
Drama and Theater
undated
30 3-4
Education
undated
30 5
English Literature
undated
30 6
Expressionism
undated
30 7
German Mormons
undated
30 8
German Poetry
undated
30 9
Holocaust Literature
undated
30 10-11
The Humanities
undated
30 12
Human Language
undated
31 1
Language Learning Ideas
undated
31 2
Literature in Berlin
undated
31 3
Love
undated
31 4
Medieval Art
undated
31 5
The Medieval Renaissance
undated
31 6
Mormonism
undated
31 7-8
Music
undated
31 9
The Nature of Tragedy and Comedy
undated
31 10
Nineteenth Century Poetry
undated
31 11
Opera
undated
31 12
Pre-Greek Art
undated
31 13
Religion
undated
31 14
Renaissance Art
undated
31 15
The Renaissance outside of Italy
undated
31 16
Roman Art
undated
31 17
Romanticism
undated
31 18
Russian Literature
undated
32 1
Survey of Movements and Periods
undated
32 2
Twentieth Century Poetry
undated
32 3
Utah History
undated
32 4-5
What is Man?
undated
32 6
World War II
undated
32 7
1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
undated
32 8
2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
undated

Miscellaneous Subject Files, A-ZReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
33 1
"A Short Guide to Improving Student Speaking and Writing," Elena Berman
1996
33 2
Arizona Theater Company Playbills
1979-1998
33 3
The Austrian Educational System
undated
33 4
"Being in the World: A Commentary on Heidegger's 'Being and Time,'" by Hubert L. Dreyfus
1986
33 5
Book Reviews
undated
33 6
Calendar with artwork from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy
1979
33 7
Chapter Two of Gerd K. Schneider's "Die Rezeption von Arthur Schnitzlers 'Reigen' Text, Auffurungen und Verfilmungen, 1897-1994"
1994
33 8
Chronology of Important Events - The Hellenic Period through the 20th Century
undated
33 9
"Das Centre Pompidou in Paris" by Alexander Fils
1980
33 10
"Das Leidende Weib: Klinger and Sternheim" by John R. Wendel
1963
33 11
Federal Republic of Germany Impressions
1978
33 12
The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program in Austria
1970-1971
34 1
"Germany: 50 Years of Peace and Freedom - 5 Years of German Unity"
1995
34 2
Graduate Work in German Studies - University of Connecticut
1961
34 3
"Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino
1972
34 4
"The Key to German Translation" by C. V. Pollard
1963
34 5
Letters on the issue of Civil Rights by Russell G. Redenbaugh
1991
34 6
"Lines on the Horizon: A New World Order in the Making" by Jacques Attali
1990
34 7
"Reflections on Dr. Borg's Life Cycle" by Erik H. Erikson
1978
34 8
Reichstag Aspekte
undated
34 9-10
"The Tree of Knowledge: A new look at the biological roots of human understanding" by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela
1986
34 11
"The Unequivocal Heavy Being" by Stephen Goode
1992
34 12
Utah Shakespearean Festival Playbill
1993
34 13
"Vienna," a publication by the Vienna Tourist Board
undated
34 14
10 Paintings from the Exibition "French Paintings from the USSR"
1988

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsReturn to Top

This series contains news articles, correspondence, pamphlets, newsletters, and other materials concerning the LDS Church.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
18 1
Correspondence
1966-1971
18 2
African-Americans
1963-1978
18 3
Apostacy and Restoration
1960s
18 4
Book of Mormon
1960s
18 5
Church and State
1942-1966
18 6
Church History
1960s-1970s
18 7
Equal Rights Ammendment
1979-1985
18 8
Folklore
1940-1995
18 9
Law of Consecration
1963-1976
18 10
"The LDS Church vs. the Revealed Word of God"
18 11
Liberalism
1950s-1975
18 12
Mormon History Association
1960s-1980s
19 1
Polygamy
1970s-1990s
19 2-3
Essays and Articles
1950s-1990s
19 4
Notebook
circa 1960s
19 5
Miscellaneous

PeriodicalsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
35 1
Austria Kultur
2000-2001
35 2
Austria Today
1994
35 3
Austria Travel Magazine
undated
35 4
Austrian Information
1998-2016
35 5
Austrian Studies Newsletter
2000-2001
35 6
Bunte Spezial "1945-1984, Forty Years in Pictures"
1985
35 7
The Collector's Quarterly
undated
35 8
Deutschland
1995-1996
35 9
The Foundry Mark
undated
35 10
German-American Cultural Review
1996-1997
35 11
The Graduate Review
1976-1981
35 12
Internationale Politik Transatlantic Edition
2000
35 13
Inter Nationes
1998-2000
36 1
Merian
1956-1957
36 2
Newsweek
1990
36 3
Theaternachrichten
1970-1971
36 4
Wirkendes Wort
1999

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • German literature--Study and teaching--Sources

Personal Names

  • Wendel, John R.--Archives

Corporate Names

  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--Sources

Form or Genre Terms

  • Articles
  • Correspondence
  • Newsletters
  • Notes
  • Pamphlets