Christian Gellinek
Christian Hans-Georg Gellinek (born May 11, 1930 in Potsdam ) is professor emeritus for German Philology in the Germanics & Slavics department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA; last lecturer in social science at the University of Vechta from 2008 to 2010.
Life
After studying law and political science at the University of Göttingen from 1952 to 1957, he received his doctorate in 1964 at Yale University . From 1963 to 1970 he was teaching assistant to associate professor without tenure in the Yale German Department, New Haven, Connecticut. From 1971 to 1987 tenured full professor of German at the University of Florida, Gainesville, including four years as chairman of German and Slavics. The habilitation took place in 1975 in the field of German Philology at the University of Basel . In the last decade and a half, his specialty has shifted to the emigration of Germans to America. In his farewell lecture , both branches of research are combined.
Visiting professorships
Basel 1974-75; UCLA 1984; Institute for Comparative Urban History at the University of Münster 1987–95; State University / University of Potsdam 1991; Brigham Young University , Utah interim 1998-2004; University of Vechta, 2008–2010.
Publications
- Homepage Christian Gellinek publications and Philipp Scheidemann collection [edition in five volumes], ed. u. commented by Christian Gellinek. Monsenstein and Vannerdat - Wissenschaft, Münster May 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Gellinek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Gellinek's homepage , accessed on November 17, 2010
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| SURNAME | Gellinek, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gellinek, Christian Hans-Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |