Gerhard Wolf (philologist)
Gerhard Wolf (* 1954 in Nuremberg ) is a German old Germanist .
Life
After graduating from the Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1972, he studied law from 1972 to 1973 and from 1973 to 1979 for the teaching post for German, history, social studies and geography (1st state examination ). After receiving his doctorate in 1984 as a Dr. phil. from 1984 to 1991 he was Academic Councilor a. Currently at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Regensburg . After the Venia Legendi in 1992 for the field of German Philology (Medieval Studies) , he held the Chair for Older German Philology at the University of Bayreuth from 1995 to 2020 .
His main research interests are medieval chronicles, Dutch-German literary relations in the Middle Ages, literature of the 16th century, court novels, travelogues from the 14th to 16th centuries. Century, spiritual and secular games and didactic literature.
Fonts (selection)
- The art of teaching. Studies on the dialogue poems ("Kleiner Lucidarius") from the "Seifried-Helbling" collection . Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-8204-8702-6 .
- From the chronicle to the world book. Sense and claim of southwest German house chronicles at the end of the Middle Ages . Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-016805-7 .
- as editor with Johan H. Winkelman: Diederic van Assenede: Floris ende Blancefloer . Münster 2014, ISBN 3-89688-492-1 .
- as editor with Norbert H. Ott: Manual Chronicles of the Middle Ages . Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-11-020627-7 .
literature
- as editors Nadine Hufnagel, Susanne Knaeble, Silvan Wagner and Viola Wittmann: Crisis and Future in the Middle Ages and (Early) Modern Times. Studies on a transcultural phenomenon: Festschrift for Gerhard Wolf on his 60th birthday . Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-7776-2649-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German old Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |