Background
Aman, Reinhold Albert was born on April 8, 1936 in Fuerstenzell, Bavaria. Son of Ludwig and Anna Margarete (Waindinger) Aman. came to the United States, 1959, naturalized, 1963.
(Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world...)
Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world swears by"--this compendium of colorful language in all its forms takes a linguistic look at "dirty words". Offering a clever mixture of both scholarly and popular, witty and serious words, this good-natured look at offensive language includes dirty jokes, regional swear words, and myriad terms of abuse.
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Aman, Reinhold Albert was born on April 8, 1936 in Fuerstenzell, Bavaria. Son of Ludwig and Anna Margarete (Waindinger) Aman. came to the United States, 1959, naturalized, 1963.
Prior to working as a translator and clerk for the United States. Army in Frankfurt, he studied chemical engineering in Augsburg and later worked as a chemical analyst and petroleum chemist in Frankfurt, Munich and Montreal.
He moved to Milwaukee in 1959, and worked there as a metallurgist and analytical chemistry Aman received his baccalaureate from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1965, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Texas in 1968. (His dissertation was entitled "Der Kampf in Wolframs Parzival") During his college years he taught German, French, Spanish, and English at various local high schools, mostly on a part-time basis.
In his last year at Texas, he also served as a teaching assistant and teaching associate.
From 1968 to 1974, Aman was an assistant professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (which he now dismisses as "Dungheap U"), where he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in German grammar, stylistics, conversation, phonetics, philology, medieval and Baroque literature, dialectology, bibliography, and research methods. Apart from Maledicta, Aman has published Bayrisch-Österreichisches Schimpfwörterbuch (), shorter monographs, as well as various books, including Hillary Clinton"s Pen Pal (), a guide to the slang and mores of American prisons, directed to Hillary Clinton.
(Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world...)
(Volume V (two issues) of unique journal focusing on "verb...)
(Book by Aman, Reinhold)
(paperback)
Member International Maledicta Society (president), American Dialect Society, American Name Society, Dictionary Society North America.
Married Shirley Ann Beischel, April 9, 1960 (divorced 1990). 1 child, Susan.