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Gerda Bell, academic

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Gerda Bell, academic

Academics such as Gerda Bell helped promote the German language. The Gerda Bell scholarship at Victoria University in Wellington offers promising German students an opportunity to spend a semester at a German university.

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James N. Bade, Germans – Immigration after 1914, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/563/gerda-bell-academic (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by James N. Bade, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.