Herbert Rowland

Herbert Rowland was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and received a BA with high honors in German and English from the University of Arkansas. He continued his study of German literature at the University of Tbingen. Returning to the United States, he received MA and PhD degrees in German from the University of Oregon. He taught at a high school in Oregon and at Eastern Washington University before going to Purdue University, where he is now Professor of German. Rowlands scholarship has dealt mainly with German Literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. more recently, he has written on the literary relations between Denmark, Germany, and the United States, principally as they relate to Hans Christian Andersen.