Reinhold Aman

Reinhold Aman (April 8, 1936 – March 2, 2019)[1] was a chemical engineer and professor of German before achieving national and even international recognition as the publisher of Maledicta, a scholarly journal dedicated to the study of offensive language, also known as maledictology.

During his university years he taught German, French, Spanish, and English at various high schools, usually on a part-time basis.

Aman was hired in 1968 as an assistant professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (which he later dismissed as "Dungheap U"), where he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in German philology, grammar, stylistics, conversation, phonetics, medieval and Baroque literature, dialectology, bibliography, and research methods.

[2] Apart from Maledicta, Aman published a Bayrisch-Österreichisches Schimpfwörterbuch ("Bavarian-Austrian Curse Dictionary")[3] (ISBN 3-86520-095-8) and shorter monographs as well as various books, including Hillary Clinton's Pen Pal: A Guide to Life and Lingo in Federal Prisons [4] (ISBN 0-916500-14-4) (1996).

He served 15.5 months at Santa Rita, Terminal Island, Lompoc, and Dublin (now a Federal prison for women only), and was released in February 1995.