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Sammons, Jeffrey Leonard was born on November 9, 1936 in Cleveland. Son of Harold Leonard and Therese (Herrmann) Sammons.
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Sammons, Jeffrey Leonard was born on November 9, 1936 in Cleveland. Son of Harold Leonard and Therese (Herrmann) Sammons.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1962.
Instructor, assistant professor Brown University, Providence, 1961-1964. Assistant professor German, Yale University, 1964-1967, associate professor, 1967-1969, professor, 1969—2001, professor emeritus, since 2002, Leavenworth professor German, 1979—2001. Craig visiting professor German, Rutgers U.2003.
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Author: Heinrich Heine: The Elusive Poet, 1969, Six Essays on the Young German Novel, 1972, Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism, 1977, Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography, 1979, Wilhelm Raabe: The Fiction of the Alternative Community, 1987, The Shifting Fortunes of Wilhelm Raabe, 1992, Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy: Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May and Other German Novelists of America, 1998, Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany's False Dawn, 2004, Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives, 1985-2005, 2006, Kuno Francke's Edition of the German Classics: A Critical & Historical Overview, 2009. Translator: Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne, a Memorial, 2006.
Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers German, Goethe Society North America, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences, North America Heine Society.
Married Kathryn Josephine Stella, July 1958 (divorced 1962); Married Christa Ann Smith, October 20, 1967.
Children: Charles Leonard, Harold Hawthorne, Benjamin Gardner.