Fritz Juengling's Bio
Doctor Juengling received his bachelor’s degrees in German studies and Secondary Education at Western Oregon University, his Master’s and Doctorate in Germanic Philology with minors in both English and Linguistics at the University of Minnesota. Germanic Philology is a highly specialized field of study, combining languages, linguistics, paleography and history.
For his graduate degrees, Dr. Juengling was required to demonstrate competence in English, German, Medieval Latin and two other modern languages. He chose Dutch and Norwegian. He also took courses in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, Old and Middle High German, Old Norse (Old Icelandic), Gothic, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Middle Dutch, history of the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages, Latin and Greek philology, Latin paleography, and Middle English paleography. He also took a number of courses on English dialects and wrote his dissertation on the formation of Southern Hemisphere dialects of English. He has taught German, English, Latin and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) at the high school and university levels.
Dr. Juengling is an Accredited Genealogist® for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists and certified by the Verband deutschsprachiger Berufsgenealogen. He runs a genealogy research and translation business.
Fritz’s Topics:
- Historical Events: How they Affect your Genealogy Research
- Austro-Hungarian Empire Geography
- A History of the Low German Language
- Extracting Information from German Church and Civil Records, German Handwriting.