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Margritt Engel

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Connecting Alaska: Nature and Environment

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Darren Prokop

Rachael Ray

Jon Allen

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Hurricane Maria

Alex James

Kathleen Dean Moore

Caroline Van Hemert

Heather Adams

Dahr Jamail

Will Jacobs

Jonathan White

James Muller

Larry Merculieff

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Margritt Engel shares her father’s letters dated Nov. 1917-Dec. 1918 from Riga, Latvia written to his parents in Saxony.    In addition, she examines her father’s diary written during WWII, dated from November 1941 to March 1945.   Deemed unfit for combat due to a riding accident, Margritt Engel’s father spent both wars in the food supply service.    His is letters and diaries offer a fascinating and intimate glimpse into the life of an East German during two world wars.  Margritt Engel translated, Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 by Georg Wilhelm Steller; with O.W. Frost and History of Kamchatka with  Karen Willmore, published by UA Press. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Languages at UAA.

Margritt Engel shares her father’s letters dated Nov. 1917-Dec. 1918 from Riga, Latvia written to his parents in Saxony. In addition, she examines her father’s diary written during WWII, dated from November 1941 to March 1945. Deemed unfit for combat due to a riding accident, Margritt Engel’s father spent both wars in the food supply service. His is letters and diaries offer a fascinating and intimate glimpse into the life of an East German during two world wars. Margritt Engel translated, Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 by Georg Wilhelm Steller; with O.W. Frost and History of Kamchatka with Karen Willmore, published by UA Press. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Languages at UAA.

Margritt Engel presents A German Eyewitness Account of Losing Two World Wars

Karen Willmore

G.W. Steller

Translators of "Steller's History of Kamchatka;  Collected Information Concerning the History of Kamchatka, Its Peoples, Their Manners, Names, Lifestyles, and Various Customary Practices",  Margritt Engel and Karen Willmore, are working together again on newly found diaries of naturalist and explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller.  The challenges they face in translating 18th century German, handwriting writing analysis, matching geographic descriptions with nomenclature, and sourcing words from  Grimm and other references are a few of the themes highlighted..  Margritt Engel translated, Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 George Wilhelm Steller; with O.W. Frost in 1988. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Languages at UAA.  Karen Willmore coauthored with O.W. Frost Description of Unpublished Steller Papers in Smithsonian Archives and the Library of Congress.  She is a retired UAA faculty member in the Department of Languages.

Translators of "Steller's History of Kamchatka; Collected Information Concerning the History of Kamchatka, Its Peoples, Their Manners, Names, Lifestyles, and Various Customary Practices", Margritt Engel and Karen Willmore, are working together again on newly found diaries of naturalist and explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller. The challenges they face in translating 18th century German, handwriting writing analysis, matching geographic descriptions with nomenclature, and sourcing words from Grimm and other references are a few of the themes highlighted.. Margritt Engel translated, Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 George Wilhelm Steller; with O.W. Frost in 1988. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Languages at UAA. Karen Willmore coauthored with O.W. Frost Description of Unpublished Steller Papers in Smithsonian Archives and the Library of Congress. She is a retired UAA faculty member in the Department of Languages.

Margritt Engel and Karen Willmore present  G.W. Steller's Trek Through the Wilds of Siberia