Germans of Louisiana

by Ellen Merrill, Don Tolzmann (Foreword by)

Overview

During the antebellum period, New Orleans was the largest German colony below the Mason-Dixon line. Later settlements moved upriver between New Orleans and Donaldsonville, near Lecompte, and in North Louisiana near Minden. Germans of Louisiana is the first unified published study of the influence the German people made on the state of Louisiana and its inhabitants. Beginning with the French and Spanish colonial periods and working through the post-Civil War period, this book covers the heritage those German settlers left behind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589802445
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/30/2004
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,110,175
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ellen C. Merrill received grants from both the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the National Park Service to research this book. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Newcomb College in 1957 and spent three years in Europe at the University of Heidelberg, where she earned a diploma from the School of Translators and Interpreters. She returned to the States to obtain her doctorate in German language and literature from Tulane University. She has taught at Dillard University, Nicholls State University, and the University of New Orleans and has served as the director of the German archive at the Historic New Orleans Collection.