Frank Goebler

Frank Göbler (* 1957 in Marienberg ) is a German Slavist .

Life

Göbler, born in the Westerwald , studied after graduating from Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Westerburg at the University of Cologne with a major in Slavic Philology and a minor in West Slavonic Philology and English . In 1983 he passed the master’s examination. In 1988 he received his doctorate on Vladislav F. Chodasevič : Duality and distance as the main features of his poetry . For his work, he was awarded the German Society for East European Studies. Subsequently Göbler was a research assistant at the Slavic Institute of the University of Cologne, where he dealt with the writing in 1991The work Aleksej K. Tolstoy for the Slavonic Philology habilitiere . In 1992 he was appointed senior scientific assistant. This was followed by substitute professorships at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg and Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg, as well as stays abroad in Moscow and Zagreb . In 1997 Frank Göbler was appointed professor for Slavic literature at the Institute for Slavic Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . The main focus of his research is the Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the literature of Russian emigration. He is still interested in the Serbian and Croatian literature of the 20th century.