Alois Wolf

Alois Wolf (born September 12, 1929 in Micheldorf in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian Germanic and Scandinavian Medievalist . He is emeritus professor for Germanic Philology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau .

After graduating from high school in Linz, he studied older German language and literature as well as English and Nordic studies in Innsbruck, interrupted with study visits to Vienna, Marburg and Reykjavík. He received his doctorate in Innsbruck in 1953 and taught there as a university lecturer from 1955, subsequently also in Hull and Münster. In 1965 he took up a lectureship in Salzburg, and in 1966 he was offered a full professorship in Kiel. In 1973 he accepted a professorship in Freiburg until he was released.

Wolf's research focus is the high medieval literature of love, especially Hartmann von Aue and Gottfried von Strasbourg , as well as heroic poetry, Germanic heroic sagas, as well as mythical and heroic Icelandic literature and tradition.

Wolf has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1996 . In 1961 he was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize of the City of Vienna, and in 1996 the Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria . Wolf is married and lives in Freiburg.

Since 1949 he has been a member of the Catholic student union KÖHV Alpinia Innsbruck.

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• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolf, Alois .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Entry at the ÖAW with picture