Germanist

This page lists 658 biographies of germanists, covering lives from 1762 to 1992. Featuring Erica Chenoweth, Barbara Cassin and Bénédicte Savoy. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Robert Nedoma

b. 1961

Gerhard Lauer

b. 1962

Felix Liebrecht

1812 – 1890

Peter Wiesinger

1938 – 2023

Rudolf Meissner

1862 – 1948

Henry Sussman

b. 1947

Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

b. 1957

Ernst Martin

1841 – 1910

David E. Wellbery

b. 1947

Philipp Strauch

1852 – 1934

Murray G. Hall

1947 – 2023

Rudolf Hildebrand

1824 – 1894

Max Wehrli

1909 – 1998

Derek Lewis

b. 1946

Norbert Wagner

1929 – 2023

Hermann Boeschenstein

1900 – 1982

Fatima Naqvi

b. 1972

Albert Köster

1862 – 1924

Robert C. Holub

1949 – 2023

Hamid Tafazoli

b. 1968

Kanji Nishio

1935 – 2024

Adela Žgur

1909 – 1992

Bernhard Blume

1901 – 1978

Cyrus Hamlin

1936 – 2011

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz

b. 1948

Charles Edward Townsend

1932 – 2015

Oscar Walter Cisek

1897 – 1966

William Witte

1907 – 1992

Annette Volfing

b. 1965

Dariusz Pawłoś

b. 1969

Walter Steinhauser

1885 – 1980

Victor Lange

1908 – 1996

August Closs

1898 – 1990

Roy Wisbey

1929 – 2020

Karl Julius Schröer

1825 – 1900

Otto Gschwantler

1930 – 2016

Rudolf Henning

1852 – 1930

Terence James Reed

b. 1937

Sarah Colvin

b. 1967

Georg Schambach

1811 – 1879

Tonio Schachinger

b. 1992

Reinhard Breymayer

1944 – 2017

Ulrich K. Goldsmith

1910 – 2000

Brigitte Peucker

b. 1948

Karl Luick

1865 – 1935

Ferdinand Vetter

1847 – 1924

Francis Owen

1886 – 1975

Johannes Hoffmeister

1907 – 1955

Kathryn Starkey

b. 1966

Rüdiger Campe

b. 1953

Guy Stern

1922 – 2023

Thomas Reiser

b. 1979

Wolfgang Kayser

1906 – 1960

Joseph P. Bauke

1931 – 1983

Zhao Jin

b. 1968

Alois Wolf

1929 – 2020

Don Carlos Travis Jr.

1911 – 1996

Hans Reiss

1922 – 2020

Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg

b. 1940

Henry Wood

1849 – 1925

Wilhelm Müller

1812 – 1890

Ludwig Tobler

1827 – 1895

Orrin W. Robinson

b. 1947

Lisa Kahn

1927 – 2013

Markus Michael Fischer

b. 1957

Paul Michael Lützeler

b. 1943

Fritz Strich

1882 – 1963

Georg Baesecke

1876 – 1951

Dennis Howard Green

1922 – 2008

Helena Deneke

1878 – 1973

Gerhard Hahn

b. 1933

Walther von Hahn

b. 1942

Edward Timms

1937 – 2018

Sławomir Tryc

b. 1952

J. P. Stern

1920 – 1991

Michael Knoche

b. 1951

Edmund Mudrak

1894 – 1965

Lawrence Ryan

1932 – 2026

Wybren Jan Buma

1910 – 1999

Barbara Könneker

1935 – 2024

William Witherle Lawrence

1876 – 1958

Adolf Holtzmann

1810 – 1870

Susi Wurmbrand

b. 1966

Otto Mensing

1868 – 1939

Ernst Schwarz

1895 – 1983

Rudolf Simek

b. 1954

Burton Pike

1930 – 2022

Werner Betz

1912 – 1980

Yoshiko Noguchi

b. 1949

Sandra Ballif Straubhaar

b. 1951

Friedrich von der Leyen

1873 – 1966

Helga W. Kraft

Otto Heller

1863 – 1941

David Yeandle

1955 – 2025

Klaus See

1927 – 2013

Rüdiger Bernhardt

b. 1940

Leslie Peter Johnson

1930 – 2016

Agata Kornhauser-Duda

b. 1972

Leonard Forster

1913 – 1997

Henri Lichtenberger

1864 – 1941