Werner Neuse archive

Werner Neuse (1899-1986) was a German scholar of the German language. Neuse was born in Iserlohn, Germany. He studied at the Universities of Gieben and Berlin, and received his doctorate from Gieben in 1930. He came to the United States in 1925 to teach at the University of Wisconsin and Hunter College in New York. He was appointed associate professor of German at Middlebury College in 1932, and became full professor in 1940. Neuse was also the assistant director of the German Summer School at Middlebury College, beginning in 1932, one year after joining its faculty. Neuse became director of the German school in 1948 and served that position until his retirement in 1967. Neuse organized the return of the German School to the Middlebury College campus in 1951 (it had previously been held in Bristol, VT).

Neuse was also elected President of the American Association of Teachers of German for three years, First Vice-President of the Modern Language Association for one year, and served as Editor-in-Chief of The German Quarterly for five years. Neuse was awarded the Goethe Medal in Silver by the Goethe Institute in Munich, the Merit Cross First Class and the Grand Cross by the Federal Republic of Germany, and he received an honorary doctorate from Middlebury College.