Future teachers appreciated the chance to learn here what they had for some reason missed or forgotten and what they might need soon enough in their own classroom. After I had taught many of the courses in the Department, one day the Chairman of the Graduate Studies Committee asked me what my field of specialization would be. To prepare myself for both of these tasks I applied for and received a Fulbright stipend to Vienna. In 1968, Vol. The editorial work on Vol.
V is about to be completed.
A number of my scholarly papers, first read in this country, Germany, Switzerland, England and the Netherlands, the published in learned journals, deal with the Baroque, as do four dissertations and a number of theses I directed. On my 75th birthday former students, friends and colleagues presented me with a Festschrift entitled Opitz und seine Welt , Amsterdam, 1990.