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- Title
Who Is Paul Grabbe?
- Abstract
This article focuses on Russian author Paul Grabbe. He was born in 1902 in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia and received his early training at the Corps des Pages, the West Point of old Russia. The son of General Count Alexander Grabbe, hereditary Cossack and aide-de-camps to the late Tsar, he was destined for the Army but ducked military manuals assiduously, preferring Chekhov, tennis and Beethoven. The Revolution of 1917 forced him to leave the country with his parents. A British man-of-war brought them to Denmark. Six years later Paul Grabbe embarked alone for New York-to find the United States an exciting, if pretty tough place, for a young man of no particular attainments. Waiter, miner, secretary, he turned from job to job as he made his way across the continent and back. The first concrete use he made of the principles he had developed was in the creation of a course in the Russian Language, which he taught experimentally at the Institute of Educational Research at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
- Subjects
GRABBE, Paul; COLLEGE teachers; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; RUSSIAN language; EASTERN Slavic languages; EDUCATION research
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1945, Vol 1, Issue 3, p65
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1945.tb02696.x