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= George Aloys Wolf (1862-1946) = George A. Wolf was a graphic designer, printer, and publisher based in Wilmington, Delaware whose business was active during the years 1890-1911.

Personal life
He was born in Camden, NJ in 1862, In 1891 he married Rebecca George France in Wilmington, Delaware. He appears in the Wilmington City directories from 1893-1897 as being located at 506 in the Equity building (at Ninth and Market), and from 1898-1910 at 807 or 809 Shipley Street. During this time he was actively engaged in groups of printers and publishers. In 1911, he leased his printing plant to Harrison W. Barnes, and later sold the property to John P. Reardon in 1912. He was a collector of historical documents. He died in NY in 1946 and is buried in Lyndhurst, NJ.

Advertising
He was a specialty printer that produced advertising brochures and trade catalogs for a variety of manufactures. He specialized in works with illustrations, employing specialty papers, colored inks. and specialty printing techniques.


 * Betts Machine Company. 24-Inch Slotting Machine. circa 1890.
 * The Remington refrigerating machinery for the manufacture of ice and mechanical refrigeration for every purpose. 1894,
 * Laflin and Rand Powder Company. Orange extra sporting. 1895.
 * The Pusey & Jones Company, Constructores de bues, yates de vapor, vapores de río, barcas, remolcadores, lanchas y dragas, mÁ uinas y calderas marítimas.1895
 * Robin Hood cycles, 1900
 * The Acme Motor Car Co., Reading, Pennsylvania. The S.G.V. Car, 1911 Model.

Du Pont Company
George A. Wolf had a special relationship with the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company and undertook design and printing work on their behalf. He is credited with designing the DuPont company oval logo in 1906, and the original carved model of his design is preserved by the Hagley Museum. He printed or published number of publications for the company:


 * Du Pont blasting powder. 19--
 * Safety blasting explosives; classes and properties of different explosives -- apparatus and methods used in testing. 19--.
 * Reliable brand exploders and batteries, for sale by E.I. du Pont Company, Wilmington, Del., not dated but circa early 1900s.
 * Sales Department Convention, New York City, March 20th-23rd ; headquarters: Astor Hotel, Times (Longacre) Square, Broadway and 44th Street : general program, 1905
 * Report of the proceedings at the second convention of the Sales Department of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, November twentieth to twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five. 1905.
 * Third Convention, Sales Department, E.I. du Pont Company : programme : Arlington Hotel, October 15 to 20, Washington, D.C., 1906.
 * Program (of) superintendents' meeting : E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co., High Explosives Operating Department, Marlborough-Elenheim, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 7th to 12th, inclusive, 1909.

He later undertook some personal publishing for du Pont family member Thomas Francis Bayard,

Book Publisher
His firm published a number of promotional books for cities and governments and often focused on books that contained images or views.


 * Industrial Wilmington, 1898
 * Ideal New Castle, 1899
 * In memoriam : Sidney E. Stuart, Captain, Ordnance Dept., U.S.A. 1899 
 * The Church Club of the diocese of Delaware.1899
 * Industrial Trenton and Vicinity, 1900
 * Program of the unveiling of the monument at Cooch's Bridge, 1901.
 * Legrand, Howland, Jacques of Bruges, 1904
 * James E. Bell. The rifle gallery, its construction and use, for the National guard, schools and clubs, also a chapter on revolver shooting, 1903
 * Wilmington and historic Brandywine: forty-seven gravures illustrating the most attractive spots in and around Wilmington, Delaware. 1905
 * Short historical and industrial sketch of the City of Wilmington, Delaware. 1907.
 * Book of the State of Delaware, 1907 (issued for the Jamestown Exposition)
 * Sight-seeing Trip from Philadelphia to the Historic Brandywine Spings Park, 1909.

Postcard Publisher
He was a postcard publisher and issued cards both before and after 1907 when postcards started to have divided backs. Many of his cards were colored with a green or orange pigment.

Many of his postcard images related to locations New Castle County, Delaware including Delaware City, Newark, New Castle, Wilmington, and Brandywine Springs amusement park. He also published images of nearby towns in Pennsylvania including Kennet Square, Landenburg, Swarthmore, and nearby towns in Maryland including Elkton and North East, There is also a group of cards that he published of Barnesville, Ohio.

In addition to recording places, George Wolf as a publisher was interested in American History and issued postcards relate to the American revolution and George Washington as related to Delaware and Pennsylvania. This is especially reflected in cards that relate to Cooch's bridge and the Battle of the Brandywine in Chads Ford, PA. he also produced cards related to the inauguration of the USS Delaware and its visit to Wilmington in 1910. Wolf also produced cards of Southern Delaware towns for Loletie M. Smith of Laurel, DE.

Personal life and Education
he was born in 1907 in Elyria, Ohio (now part of Greater Cleveland) to German immigrant parents. he attended Oberlin College where he obtained his B.A. in 1929.

He pursued graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he was a Hermann Metz Fellow, 1929–1930. he completed his masters with a thesis on Shakespeare in Tieck's imaginative writings in 1930. He was a traveling Fellow at the Universities of Munich and Bonn, 1930–31, and completed his doctoral degree in Comparative Literature with a concentration in German in 1933.

In 1935 he married Eleanore M Whitmore in New York. He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He retired to Durham, NC and was in residence at Duke University until his death. He is buried in Wilmington, Vermont where for many years he maintained a summer residence.

The Eleanore and Harold Jantz Graduate Student Internships at he the Rubenstein Library at Duke University and the Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture at Oberlin College have been established in his memory.

Academic career
His first academic position was Assistant Professor of German, 1933–34, Antioch College; Assistant Professor of German, 1934–42, Clark University; Assistant Professor of German, Princeton University, 1942-; Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins.

Lecturer on German Art, Worcester Art Museum, 1935–36, and 1939–40.

he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1948.

His academic interests were broad. While much of his career was devoted to German Baroque literature and the age of Goethe, he also maintained significant interests in Early american verse (the topic of his first book), German writing about America, German publishing in America, and the history of art.

He served as editor of the journal MLN (Modern Language Notes) and was instrumental in moving it to its five issue annual structure.

He tought many notable students including Frank L. Borchardt,

Works

 * The First Century of New England Verse, 1943
 * Goethe's Faust as a Renaissance Man: Parallels and Prototypes, 1951
 * Amerika im deutschen Dichten und Denken, which appeared in Vol. III of Deutsche Philologie im Aufriss in 1962
 * The Soothsayings of Bakis Goethe's tragi-comic observations on life, time, and history, 1966.
 * The mothers in Faust : the myth of time and creativity. 1969.
 * The Form of Faust, 1978

Collection
Jantz was an avid personal collector and amassed a large collection of German works in his area of specialty. Originally housed in the basement of his Baltimore home the collection was regularly shared with students and contributed to his deep understanding of the German Baroque period. The collection was celebrated for holding many lesser known works and authors and particularly items not held in North America.

The Book and manuscript collections came to Duke University in 1974, where it is now preserved in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The core German Baroque collection contains approximately 3700 titles and was later microfilmed and described in a printed catalog. Subsequent additions and gifts grew the collection to over 10,000 printed volumes, and expanded to the collection to include historical manuscripts, prints, engravings, and broadsides. In addition to German Baroque materials the collection is strong in German works related to America, German American publications, works related to American Art, 19th C historical fiction related to America. The collection includes a variety of works from the personal library of Enoch Pratt.

Jantz was also a collector of American Art and much of his collection was sold at auction.

Thomas J. Wise Library collections[ edit]
Papers


 * The Harry Ransom Center of The University of Texas at Austin. (13.86 linear feet)
 * The Firestone Library at the Princeton University Library
 * Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
 * University of Delaware
 * Duke University Archives, Newman Ivey White papers
 * Columbia University Libraries
 * New York Public Library

Books published by Wise


 * Harry Ransom Center of The University of Texas at Austin.
 * University of Delaware
 * University of British Columbia
 * University of Manchester

Books from Wise's Library


 * British Library, holds the Ashley Library
 * David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University,