Friedrich Vollhardt

Friedrich Vollhardt (born September 22, 1956 in Göttingen ) is a German German philologist and professor of modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

After graduating from high school, Vollhardt studied German , philosophy and theology at the universities of Munich and Freiburg and graduated in 1980 with the master's examination and 1981 with the state examination. In 1984 he did his doctorate in Munich on Hermann Broch's position in history , for which he received the LMU sponsorship award. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg and completed his habilitation in 1992.

In 1993 he accepted a position at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and in 1996 he moved to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Vollhardt has been a full professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität since 2004, with a focus on early modern literature. In addition, he is the supervisor of the international doctoral college “Textuality of the Premodern” of the Bavarian Elite Network and co-editor of the Real Lexicon of German Literature .

Works (selection)

• Hermann Broch's position in history. Studies of early philosophical work and the trilogy of novels "Die Schlafwandler" (1914–1932). Tuebingen 1986.
• Heinrich Rickert : cultural studies and natural science. With notes and an afterword. Stuttgart 1986.
• German stories of the 18th century. From Gottsched to Goethe. Munich 1988.
• On dealing with literature and literary history. Positions after the "theory debate". Stuttgart 1992.
• Christian Thomasius (1655-1728). New research in the context of early enlightenment. Tübingen 1997.
• Self-love and sociability. Studies on the relationship between natural law thinking and moral didactic literature in the 17th and 18th centuries. Tübingen 2001.
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Epoch and work. Göttingen 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Vollhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Friedrich Vollhardt