Marvin Schindler

Who was Marvin Schindler?

Marvin Samuel Schindler was an emeritus professor of German and Slavic Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

He attended Boston Latin School, then earned a bachelor's degree in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts in 1953. He went on to get his master's and doctoral degrees in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Schindler served as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Northern Illinois University from 1971 to 1974, and as Chair of the Department of Romance and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Wayne State University from 1974 until 1983. His sole authored book was The Sonnets of Andreas Gryphius, a study of the 17th-century German Romantic poet Andreas Gryphius, but he also authored many articles on German and Germanics and was the book review editor of The German Quarterly. In addition, he was co-editor of a Festschrift in honor of Professor Diether Haenicke, entitled University Governance and Humanistic Studies, a work in two volumes.