CV, 1/91 & Publications



JOHN ROGER PAAS

William H. Laird Professor of German and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus

Carleton College

1 Barren Down House German Department

Leg Square Carleton College

Shepton Mallet One North College Street

Somerset BA4 5LL

UK

rpaas@carleton.edu

Education: Bryn Mawr College 9/67-5/73 Ph. D.

Hamilton College 9/63-6/67 B. A. (summa cum laude;

Phi Beta Kappa)

Dissertation “The Seventeenth-century Verse Broadsheet: A Study of Its Character and

Title: Literary-Historical Significance”

Military Service: 9/69-8/71

Employment: Carleton College 9/74-8/2015 Professor

Northfield, MN Chair: 1985-88,

1999-2000, 2007-11

Bryn Mawr College 9/73-5/74 Part-time Assistant

Bryn Mawr, PA Professor

Postgraduate National Endowment for the 1/04-9/04

Grants: Humanities, Fellowship

Alexander von Humboldt 12/00-7/01

Senior Research Grant

National Endowment for the 9/92-6/93

Humanities, Texts/Editions

Visiting Fellowship 11/91-12/91 Beinecke Library, Yale Univ.

NEH Travel to Collections 7/90

Fulbright Senior Research 9/88-7/89

Fellowship

Carleton College Faculty 1/85-4/85

Development Grant

Bush Foundation Faculty 9/78-12/78

Development Grant

IREX Fellowship 3/78-6/78

Andrew W. Mellon 7/76-8/76

Foundation Summer Grant

German Academic Exchange 6/75-8/75; 7/78-8/78; 7/83-8/83

Service (DAAD) Summer Grant

Past Professional Gutenberg Society

Organizations: Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für Barockforschung

Sixteenth Century Society

Society of German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (President, 1999)

Publications

Books:

The Altzenbachs of Cologne. Early Modern German Print Publishers: Popular Prints of the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.

The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700. 14 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1985-2017.

America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014.

Engraved in Augsburg: Research and Essays on the History of Printmaking in Augsburg, ed. with Josef H. Biller and Maria-Luise Hopp-Gantner. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag, 2013.

Every Book, a Tale: Selections from Special Collections in the Laurence McKinley Gould Library of Carleton College. Northfield: The Trustees of Carleton College, 2010.

Augsburg, die Bilderfabrik Europas: Essays zur Augsburger Druckgraphik der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag, 2001. [Augsburg, the Picture Factory of Europe: Essays on Augsburg Prints of the Early Modern Period]

“der Franken Rom”: Nürnbergs Blütezeit in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts, ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995. [“Rome of the Franks”: Nuremberg’s Cultural Resurgence in the Second Half of the 17th Century]

Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700, vols. 40 and 41. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1995.

Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700, vols. 38 and 39. Roosendaal: Koninklijke Van Poll, 1994.

Unbekannte Gedichte und Lieder des Sigmund von Birken. Chloe, 11. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1990. [Unknown Poems and Songs by Sigmund von Birken]

Effigies et Poesis: An Illustrated Catalogue of Printed Portraits with Laudatory Verses by German Baroque Poets. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988.

[with Wolfgang Harms, Michael Schilling, and Andreas Wang]. Illustrierte Flugblätter des Barock: Eine Auswahl. Deutsche Neudrucke: Reihe Barock 30. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1983. [Illustrated Broadsheets of the Baroque: A Selection]

Articles:

“Popular Music: Tin Pan Alley as National Barometer.” A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War, ed. Tim Dayton and Mark W. Van Wienen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. 76-93.

“The Prints of Johann Stridbeck the Elder and the Younger.” Print Quarterly 37: 72f.

“Bamberg Broadsheet Calendars from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries.” Print Quarterly 36: 316-319.

“Images of War and Revolt.” Print Quarterly 35 (2018): 308-310.

“La vie de la vierge: J. C. Leopold à Augsbourg.” La fuite en Egypte – La vie sauve. Les catalogues du Musée de l’Image, 25. Épinal: Musée de l’Iage, 2017. pp. 228-233.

“Johann Georg Schleder (1597-1685), Journalist, Chronicler, and Broadsheet Writer.” Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print, ed. Andrew Pettegree. Library of the Written Word, 60. Leiden: Brill, 2017. pp. 316-334.

“The Changing Landscape of the Competitive Nuremberg Print Trade: The Rise and Fall of Paulus Fürst (1608-1666).” Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, ed. Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins. Library of the Written Word, 41. Leiden: Brill, 2015. pp. 35-63.

“Stylized Poses. Seventeenth-Century Equestrian Portraits on German Political Broadsheets.” Generals and beggars, actors and sovereigns. Portraits in widely circulating prints from XVII to XX century, ed. Alberto Milano. Bassano del Grappa: Tassotti Editore, 2013. pp. 39-53.

Descriptions of broadsheets in: Martha White Paas, The ‘Kipper und Wipper’ Inflation, 1619-1623: An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

“‘Under Omar’s subtle spell’: American Reprint Publishers and the Omar Craze.” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: Popularity and Neglect, ed. Adrian Poole et al. London: Anthem Press, 2011. pp. 127-146.

“The Use of the Popular Press To Influence Domestic and Foreign Opinion: Dutch Broadsheets From the Year of Disaster, 1672” in: Bilder – Sachen – Mentalitäten: Arbeitsfelder historischer Kulturwissenschaften, ed. Heidrun Alzheimer et al. Regensburg: Verlag Schnell und Steiner, 2010. pp. 287-292.

“Edward FitzGeralds The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859): Geschichte eines unerwarteten literarischen Erfolgs.“ Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier, Tagungsband Ravenna 2009, ed. Wolfgang Brückner et al. Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier, vol. 14. Münster et al.: Waxmann, 2010. pp. 85-98. [“Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859): The History of an Unexpected Literary Success”]

“Die Verbreitung wundersamer Neuigkeiten in der Frühen Neuzeit: Flugblätter über den sonderbaren tatarischen Bogenschützen von 1664.” Flugblätter von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart als kulturhistorische Quellen und bibliothekarische Sondermaterialien, ed. Christiane Caemmerer, Jörg Jungmayr and Eef Overgaauw. Frankfurt/Main et al.: Lang, 2010.  pp. 1-23.

[“The Spread of Marvelous News in the Early Modern Period: Broadsheets about the Monstrous Tartar Archer of 1664”]

“Joachim von Sandrart as Entrepreneur: The Months as Print Series with Verses.” Joachim von Sandrart: Ein europäischer Künstler und Theoretiker zwischen Italien und Deutschland, ed. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer and Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata. Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 25. Roma: Biblioteca Hertziana, 2009. pp. 133-142.

“Towards a Reevaluation of Early Modern Poetry.” Sixteenth Century Journal XL (2009): 266-267.

“Parallel Lives: Sigmund von Birken and Duke Anton Ulrich” in: Early Modern German Literature 1350-1700, ed. Max Reinhart. Vol. 4 of Camden House History of German Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2007. pp. 853-867.

“Die vielen Gesichter des Krieges: Amerikanische Notenblätter während des Ersten Weltkrieges.” Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier, Tagungsband Ravenna 2006, ed. Wolfgang Brückner et al. Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier, vol. 11. Münster et al.: Waxmann, 2007. pp. 92-109. [“The Many Faces of War: American Sheet Music from the First World War”]

“Deutsche Graphikproduktion in Nürnberg zu Harsdörffers Lebzeiten.” Georg Philipp Harsdörffer und die Künste, ed. Doris Gerstl. Schriftenreihe der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, 10. (Nürnberg: Fachverlag Hans Carl, 2005). pp. 127-142. [“German Print Production in Nuremberg during Harsdörffer’s Life”]

“Sandrart.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 6. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2003.

p. 484.

“Johann Georg Schleder.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 6. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2003. p. 547.

“Nuremberg Engraves for Sweden: Jacob von Sandrart’s Equestrian Portraits of Charles X and Charles XI.” Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2002. pp. 264-271.

“Zur überregionalen Auftragsarbeit eines Augsburger Kunststechers: Philipp Kilians Beitrag zu Germanvs Vratislaviæ Decor (1667).” Augsburg, die Bilderfabrik Europas: Essays zur Augsburger Druckgraphik der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. John Roger Paas. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag, 2001.

pp. 79-92. [“An Outside Commission for an Augsburg Printmaker: Philipp Kilian’s Work on Germanvs Vratislaviæ Decor (1667)”]

“Martin Opitz.” Encyclopedia of German Literature, vol. 2, ed. Matthias Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. pp. 778-779.

“Johann Joachim Winckelmann.” Encyclopedia of German Literature, vol. 2, ed. Matthias Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. pp. 1007-1008.

“Political Journalism during the Thirty Years’ War: The Reverend Martin Rinckart (1586-1649),

a German pastor politicus”. Sborník k 80. narozeninám Mirjam Bohatcové, ed. Anezka Badurová. Praha: Vydala Knihovna Akademie ved Ceské republiky, 1999. pp. 213-222.

A biographical sketch and catalogue descriptions of several objects in: Von teutscher Not zu höfischer Pracht, 1648-1701. München: DuMont, 1998. pp. 234-237, 239-242, 244.

“Zusammenarbeit in der Herstellung illustrierter Werke im Barockzeitalter: Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681) und Nürnberger Künstler und Verleger.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 24 (1997): 217-239. [“Collaboration in the Production of Illustrated Works in the Baroque Period: Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681) and Nuremberg Artists and Publishers”]

“The Changing Image of Gustavus Adolphus on German Broadsheets, 1630-3.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 59 (1996): 205-244.

“Sigmund von Birken.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 164: German Baroque Writers, 1580-1660, ed. James Hardin. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. pp. 50-63.

“Inseparable Muses: German Baroque Poets as Graphic Artists.” Colloquia Germanica 29 (1996): 13-38.

“The Production of Emblems in Nuremberg, ca. 1650-1680.” Life’s Golden Tree: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Browning, ed. Thomas Kerth and George C. Schoolfield. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996. pp. 115-140.

“Mannasser.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1995.

p. 52.

“The Publication of a Seventeenth-Century Bestseller: Sigmund von Birken’s Der Donau-Strand (1664).” The German Book 1450-1750: Studies presented to David L. Paisey, ed. John L. Flood and William A. Kelly. London: The British Library, 1995. pp. 229-241.

“Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681): A Microliterary Study of a German Baroque Poet at Work.” The Image of the Baroque, ed. Aldo Scaglione. Studies in Italian Culture, 16. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 1995. pp. 157-174.

“From Respected Guest to Persona Non Grata: The Engraver and Broadsheet Publisher Peter Isselburg in Nuremberg, 1612 to 1622.” German Life and Letters 48 (1995): 292-310.

“Unknown Verses by Sigmund von Birken on Maps by Jacob von Sandrart.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 21 (1994): 7-9.

“Jacob von Sandrarts gedruckte Reiterbildnisse mit Versen des Sigmund von Birken.” Philobiblon 38 (1994): 16-32. [“Jacob von Sandrart’s Printed Equestrian Portraits with Verses by Sigmund von Birken”]

“Georg Kress.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1994. p. 343.

“In Praise of Johann Michael Dilherr: Occasional Poems Written in 1644 by Sigmund von Birken, Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, and Johann Klaj.” Daphnis 21 (1992): 601-613.

“The Process of Poetic Assimilation as Revealed in the Earliest Known German Alexandrines by Adam Olearius.” «Der Buchstab tödt - der Geist macht lebendig» Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Hans-Gert Roloff, vol. 1, ed. James Hardin and Jörg Jungmayr. Bern: Peter Lang, 1992. pp. 761-774.

“Paulus Fürst.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1991. p. 73.

“Johann Hoffmann.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1991. p. 504.

“Sigmund von Birkens anonyme Flugblattgedichte im Kunstverlag des Paul Fürst.” Philobiblon 34 (1990): 321-339. [“Sigmund von Birken’s Anonymous Broadsheet Poems Published by Paul Fürst”]

“Georg Kress, a Briefmaler in Augsburg in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1990: pp. 177-204.

“Sigmund von Birken’s Des Friedens Vermählung mit Teutschland.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 17 (1990): 82-89.

“Opitz in Praise of Johannes Heermann: An Example of the Versatility of Portrait Verse.” Opitz und seine Welt. Chloe, 10. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1990. pp. 413-420.

“Sigmund von Birken and Gabrielle Charlotte Patin.” Daphnis 18 (1989): 569-575.

“British and Irish Theses on German Literature and Language of the Seventeenth Century.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 14 (1987): 79-86.

“Aubryscher Kunstverlag.” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1987. p. 184. [“The Aubry Print Firm”]

“Johann Michael Moscherosch und der Aubrysche Kunstverlag in Straßburg, 1625 bis ca. 1660: Eine Bibliographie der Zusammenarbeit von Dichter und Verleger.” Philobiblon 30 (1986): 5-45. [“Johann Michael Moscherosch and the Aubry Print Firm in Strasbourg, 1625 to ca, 1660”]

“Ergänzende Einzelheiten zu Paul Flemings deutschen Einblattdrucken.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-

Nachrichten 11 (1984): 14-15. [“Additional Details Concerning Paul Fleming’s German Broadsheets”]

“Philipp von Zesen’s Work with Amsterdam Publishers of Engravings, 1650-1670.” Daphnis 13 (1984): 319-341.

“Einblattdrucke zum Reformationsjubiläum, 1617.” Lutherjahrbuch 50 (1983): 36-47. [“Broadsheets for the First Centennial of the Reformation, 1617”]

“A Broadsheet Sonnet by Diederich von dem Werder?” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 10 (1983): 548-49.

“An Unknown 18th-century Edition of a Dutch Translation of the Faustbuch.” Goethe Yearbook: Publications of the Goethe Society of North America 1 (1982): 172.

“Ergänzungen zu Wiedemanns Verzeichnis der Einblattdrucke von Johann Klaj.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 8 (1981): 190-91. [“Additions to Wiedemann’s List of Broadsheets by Johann Klaj”]

“Applied Emblematics: The Figure on the Simplicissimus-Frontispiece and its Place in Popular Devil-Iconography.” Colloquia Germanica 13 (1980): 303-20.

“Poeta incarceratus: Georg Philipp Harsdörffers Zensur-Prozeß, 1648.” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Beiheft 1 (1979): 155-64. [“Poeta incarceratus: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer’s Censorship Trial, 1648”]

Book reviews in:

Daphnis, The Eighteenth Century Journal, The German Quarterly, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Renaissance Quarterly, German Studies Review, Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken, Print Quarterly

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