Fritz Peter Knapp

Fritz Peter Knapp (born April 6, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian German scholar and literary scholar .

Life

After graduating as Dr. phil. at the University of Vienna in 1968 and habilitation there in 1973, he became professor in Passau in 1982 and in Heidelberg for older German philology in 1996.

Knapp wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

Fonts (selection)

• The Latin animal pos . Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-534-07808-X .
• The literature of the early and high Middle Ages in the dioceses of Passau, Salzburg, Brixen and Trento from the beginning up to the year 1273 . Graz 1994, ISBN 3-201-01611-X .
• Foundations of European literature in the Middle Ages. An introduction to social, cultural, language, ideas and form history . Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-25374-6 .
• The birth of the fictional novel from the spirit of the fairy tale. Presented on October 25, 2013 . Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 3-8253-6297-3 .

literature

• as editors Thordis Hennings, Christopher Roth, Christian Schneider and Manuela Niesner : Medieval Poetics in Theory and Practice. Festschrift for Fritz Peter Knapp on his 65th birthday . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020544-2 .
• Prof. Dr. Fritz Peter Knapp