Fritz Paul

Fritz Paul (4 April 1942 – 19 December 2025) was a German philologist who specializes in Scandinavian studies.

Biography Fritz Paul was born in Nesselwang, Germany on 4 April 1942. After gaining his abitur in Kempten in 1962, Paul studied German and Nordic philology at LMU Munich and the University of Oslo. He received his Ph.D. in 1968 with a thesis on the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen.

From 1968 to 1972, Paul was a research assistant at the Seminar for Nordic Philology and Germanic Antiquity at LMU Munich, where he completed his habilitation in Nordic philology in 1972. Paul was subsequently appointed a professor in Scandinavian studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 1979 to his retirement in 2007, Paul was a professor in Germanic and Nordic philology at the University of Göttingen. Paul is a specialist in both Old Norse literature and modern Scandinavian literature.

He is also a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1994.