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Retired Professor John Walz, Famous German Scholar, Dies

John A. Walz, professor of German, emeritus, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 82.

Walz, a noted philologist and Goethe scholar, came to the University in 1905. He was the author of several books on the German language and contributed several articles to philological journals. In 1936 he published his famous "German Influence in American Education and Culture."

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