Texas Talks - Texas German Historical Association with Christopher Wickham and Daniel Gelo

Texas Talks - Texas German Historical Association

with
Christopher Wickham and Daniel Gelo

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Dr. Christopher Wickham and Dr. Daniel Gelo will discuss their new book The German Texan Frontier in 1853, and the role of Ferdinand Lindheimer, the “Father of Texas Botany,” in helping 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 session is sponsored jointly by the German Texan Heritage Society, the Dallas Goethe Center, and the University of Texas – Arlington.