Günter Hess (Germanist)
Günter Hess (* 1940 in Würzburg ) is a German specialist in German .
Life
After receiving his doctorate in Munich in 1970 with Hugo Kuhn and Walter Müller-Seidel , he taught from 1981 to 1983 as a professor of German and Renaissance philology at the University of Göttingen . Afterwards he held the chair for modern German literary history II at the University of Würzburg until his early retirement in 2001 .
His areas of specialization are humanism and neo-Latin literature, cultural history of the 19th century. and contemporary literature.
Fonts (selection)
- German-Latin fools guild. Studies on the relationship between vernacular and latinism in satirical literature of the 16th century . Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-02841-1 .
- The death of Seneca . Studies on the art of imagination in texts and images of the 17th and 18th centuries . Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-88-7041-369-4 .
- Panorama and monument. Studies on the image memory of the 19th century . Würzburg 2011, ISBN 3-8260-4511-4 .
- Walter Bauer - a journey through life from Merseburg to Toronto. A biography . Halle an der Saale 2018, ISBN 3-96311-024-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |