The Author: Jeffrey L. Sammons received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he is Leavenworth Professor of German Literature Emeritus. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, and Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German at Rutgers University. His most recent book publications are Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany’s False Dawn (2004) and Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives 1985-2005 (2006), along with a translation and commentary, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne: A Memorial (2006).

The Author: Jeffrey L. Sammons received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he is Leavenworth Professor of German Literature Emeritus. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, and Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German at Rutgers University. His most recent book publications are Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany’s False Dawn (2004) and Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives 1985-2005 (2006), along with a translation and commentary, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne: A Memorial (2006).

The Author: Jeffrey L. Sammons received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he is Leavenworth Professor of German Literature Emeritus. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, and Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German at Rutgers University. His most recent book publications are Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany’s False Dawn (2004) and Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives 1985-2005 (2006), along with a translation and commentary, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne: A Memorial (2006).