News from the German-American Heritage Foundation:
The German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA is dedicated to promoting and preserving the heritage of Americans of German-speaking ancestry.
Margrit B. Krewson will be honored on April 17, 2008 by the organization as the Distinguished German-American of the Year for 2007.
From 1980 until 1998, she served as the German/Dutch Area Specialist in the European Division of the Library of Congress. Prior to that appointment, she held several positions in the Library’s Loan Division. She was responsible for raising funds for three Library of Congress organized exhibits that also traveled to Germany.
During her retirement, she spent an additional six years concluding the Library of Congress’ acquisition of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map, best known as the birth certificate of America. In addition she facilitated the display of the exhibit, “Treasures from the Saxon State Library” in Miami, and is currently supporting a similar project, “600 Years University of Leipzig,” which will open at the Grolier Club in New York City in 2009.
Margrit Beran Krewson was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was educated in Heidelberg at the undergraduate level. She received an M.A. in Germanic languages and literature from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she was awarded the Buka Prize for outstanding scholarship in Germanic area studies.
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