In Partial Fulfillnent April 1966 - MSpace at the University of Manitoba

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f l,rould- Iike first of all to express my
gratitud_e to Dr. Moritz Jahn for his time and- co-
operation in d-iscussing with me his rvorks in connection
with my thesis. Every conversation with him was d-eeply
rewarding and most enlighteni-ng in terms of the thesis t
and spiritually enriching from a personal point of
view. I would. like to thank Dr. Jahn also for putting
at rny disposal a personal notebook containing comments
regard-ing his work. I received- permission from hirn
to copy several tapes as v¡ell, oo which are a rad-io
broad-cast about Jahn (tfre text spoken by Dieter
Bel1mann) , a d-iscourse on lov¡ German humour ( spoken
by Dr. Jahn), and_ read_ings by the poet out of his works.
ivly sineere thanks go out also to Dr. Heinrich
i¡lesehe, Professor for Trow German at the university of
Göttingen and- d.irector of the Nied.ersäehsisches
trrjörterbuch. Through him and- his family I first mad'e
the acquaintance of Moritz Jahn and- his vtorks '
Professor l¡lesche put at my d-isposal rnuch valuable
material on the subject of I-,ow German language and.
literature, as roell as offering me his invaluable
ad-vice and. assistance.
f would- like to thank also Herr Gü::ther sachse '
Dr. Jahn's publisher, and- his wife for their time and'