Dr. Ingeborg H. Solbrig, 93, lecturer domestic and abroad, writer (bilingual), German language/ literature educator emerita, passed away Oct. 20, 2016, at Windmill Manor in Coralville.

No services are planned at this time, but memorial donations may be sent to the Iowa City Animal Shelter in care of Ingeborg Solbrig.

Ingeborg was born in Weissenfels, Germany, in 1923. The daughter of the late Reinhold J. Solbrig and Hildegard M. Solbrig nee Ferchland, Ingeborg immigrated to the USA in 1961 from Italy, where she had resided for three years.

Ingeborg graduated from the chemistry program in Halle, Germany, in 1948. She studied one semester of Spanish at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1961 and obtained a B.A., summa cum laude, from San Francisco State in 1964. She did post-graduate studies at the University of California-Berkeley, 1964-65; earned a M.A. in German studies at Stanford University in 1966; and a Ph.D. joint degree from Stanford in German studies and humanities in 1969 after a year of research toward the doctoral dissertation in Germany and Austria.

She was assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island-Kingston, 1969-70; University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 1970-72; University of Kentucky-Lexington, 1972-75; associate professor at the University of Iowa from 1975 to 1981, professor from 1981 to 1993, and professor emeritus since 1993.

—Excerpted from an obituary that originally appeared at http://www.thegazette.com/obituaries/ingeborg-solbrig-20161027-0000038086-01#DGa81zermajMKzJY.99