Study Abroad Scholarships

Additional scholarships, up to $3,000, may be available, based on financial need and/or merit from the Hubbs Memorial Scholarship fund.  

Eligibility

Students must plan to study in Freiburg during the academic year. Students receiving a Baden-Württemberg or DAAD scholarships are not eligible for additional scholarship funding available through GLL.

Deadline

February 13

How to Apply

Students may apply for additional scholarship money by submitting one application by February 13.

Criteria and Review

GLL’s executive committee determines annual scholarship recipients and amounts.  Scholarship awards will be communicated by the the end of April.

Donor Information

The academic year in Freiburg scholarships are funded by an endowment created by his colleagues, family, alums and other friends in honor of Valentine C. Hubbs (1925-1985), who directed the Freiburg Program, and felt great affection for both the institution and the students who went abroad with him. The University's memorial of Professor Hubbs is reproduced below. 

Memorial to Valentine C. Hubbs

"On Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1985, just two weeks before his sixtieth birthday, our esteemed colleague Charles Hubbs died in Ann Arbor after suffering a stroke. His colleagues and students in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures were stunned by the suddenness of his departure in the prime of life, carrying on to the last the multiple activities of a dedicated teacher, researcher and scholar, devoted husband, and avid sportsman.

Charles Hubbs graduated from Hofstra College in 1950 and completed his Ph.D. at New York University in 1959. In the same year he was appointed Instructor in our department, rising to the rank of Professor in 1971. He served as Chairman of the department from 1970 to 1976, as well as on numerous committees throughout the College. His name is perhaps most closely tied to the University's Junior Year in Freiburg with which he has been associated uninterruptedly since 1966, and many hundreds of our alumni remember his helpful advice and his warm, gentle humor.

As a scholar and teacher, Charles represented the important era of German Romanticism, and numerous articles and editions bear witness to his life-long interest in that literary period. Another area of research that fascinated him was the history of Hessian troops in America, culminating in his book Hessian Journals, published in 1981, recently translated into Japanese. As editor of the journal Michigan Germanic Studies, he was admired for this painstaking attention to style as well as the collegial way in which he took on additional burdens voluntarily, such as the co-chairmanship of the Martin Luther Quincentennial Conference in 1983, the proceedings of which have since been published. At the time of his death, he was working on a new volume on the German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist.

Charles Hubbs will be remembered as a gentle and devoted family man, a scholar of international standing, an efficient administrator, and popular teacher. He will be missed by his colleagues and his students."

-Gerhard Dünnhaupt

In 2018, W. Devere Sturm generously established this scholarship to fund the program fee, lodging expenses, and a flat stipend to cover additional living expenses (a value over $25,000) for one student per year participating in the Academic Year in Freiburg (AYF) Program.