Participants
Past Contributions
Since the inception of the project in 1998, many people have generously contributed their energy, talents, time, and resources. Their participation has been invaluable. In alphabetical order, they are as follows:
- Mary Chapman, (Editorial Board member), 2000-2002
- Kyle Heyne, (Website updates, technical editing), 2005-2007
- Jorge Ramirez, (Website design, technical editing), 2004-2005
- Susan Rosowski, (Advisory Board member), 1999-2004
- Wolfgang Schäfer, Editorial Board member (1998-2005)
- David Seaman, (SGML/XML consultant), 2000-2003
- Alfred Weber, (Founding Editor, Editorial Board member), 1998-2003
In Memoriam
Alfred Weber died March 23, 2006. He was 81 years old.
Alfred was the founding editor of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition (now headquartered at the University of Central Florida), and a founding member of the Charles Brockden Brown Society. His patience, kindness, and interest in the work of other scholars made him an ideal mentor and friend. It was his dream to see the uncollected work of Charles Brockden Brown identified and published in a manner worthy of this genius of the early Republic.
By the time he initiated the CBB editorial project, Alfred was already retired from his position as Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, which he had held from 1968 to 1990. Born in Berlin, Alfred started his academic career in Berlin and Tübingen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1953. After several years as a journalist, he held academic positions in Berlin and Heidelberg before assuming the chair in Tübingen. On his many visits to the United States, he held grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association), and he held visiting professorships at SUNY Cortland, the University of Oregon, and the University of Northern Arizona. In addition to his pioneering work on C.B. Brown and the American short story, for which most of us know him, Alfred also wrote about 19th and 20th century English and American poetry (his dissertation was on T.S. Eliot), and on the relationship between literature and film. He was the founder of the German Film Archive for American Studies and directed an interdisciplinary research project on the history of documentary film in the United States.
After his last published essay appeared in 1997, Alfred spent the next eight years compiling a treasure trove of bibliographical and editorial materials that became the foundation of the current Charles Brockden Brown editorial and digital project. He never stopped working.
We will miss Alfred’s genial presence and kindly company at our meetings. I will miss his wonderful “Berliner” voice on the telephone that never failed to send cheer and encouragement. It was a pleasure to know him, and a privilege to be his friend.
Fritz Fleischmann
