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edit@Brewcrewer: You added a template with the warning: "This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please include more appropriate citations from reliable sources" [1]. This doesn't really apply here. The "primary source" is the official University of Pittsburgh faculty page; official pages of major universities are generally accepted as most reliable references. What we're looking at here is not so much a source affiliated with the subject, but rather a subject (Thum) affiliated with a source (U of Pittsburgh). Information found on official university websites, such as the employment history and publications of faculty isn't usually found anywhere else, at least not with the same degree of accuracy and reliability. That's why I'm removing the template. If you doubt any particular statements in the article, please be more specific.
@Piotrus: You wiki-linked my ad-hoc English translations of the book titles [2]. I'm reverting this because I think that none of the books (not even The Foreign City) are notable enough to get articles of their own in the foreseeable future. I intentionally used single square brackets to indicate that the English titles are not official - I didn't want to create wikilinks. --Thorsten1 (talk) 17:12, 28 June 2008 (UTC)