About Peter Buchholz
Born 1941. Peter Buchholz is a South African philologist.
Peter Buchholz (born 1941) is a South African philologist who is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Africa. He specializes in Germanic studies.
Biography Peter Buchholz was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1941. He gained his habilitation in Germanic Philology at the University of Kiel in 1977. Buchholz has taught at the universities of Saarland, Kiel, Berkeley, and Sorbonne. In 1981, Bucholz was appointed Professor at the Department of Modern European Languages at the University of South Africa. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2003. Bucholz has published a large number of scholarly works on Old Norse religion and literature.
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Who is Peter Buchholz?
South African philologist
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Peter Buchholz was born in 1941 in Pretoria.
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Peter Buchholz is a philologist.
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Peter Buchholz is South African.
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