Herbert Wichelns

Herbert August Wichelns (December 29, 1894 – March 4, 1973) was an American rhetorician.

Personal life Wichelns grew up in New York, attending Boys’ High School in Brooklyn. He attended college at Cornell University. Wichelns was awarded an A.B. degree in 1916 and a Ph.D. in 1922. He was a second lieutenant in the US Army during the First World War.

University career He taught at Cornell as an assistant instructor and instructor from 1916 to 1917 and, after his military service, as an instructor at Dartmouth College from 1920 to 1921 and at New York University in 1922. After that he became an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in 1923–24. He returned to Cornell as an assistant professor until 1931, when he became a full professor. Wichelns retired in 1962.

Publications A History of the Speech Association of the Eastern States 1909-1959 (1969) James Albert Winans, 1872-1956 (1957) Colleague and Scholar (1955) Burke's Essay on the Sublime and its Reviewers (1922) James Albert Winans (1961) Great Teachers of Speech: Wayland Maxfield Parrish: Colleague and Scholar (1955) The Literary Criticism of Oratory (1925) Analysis and Synthesis in Argumentation (1925) Public Speaking and the Dramatic Arts (1959) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960)