Gero from Wilpert

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Gero von Wilpert (born March 13, 1933 in Tartu (German: Dorpat), Estonia ; † December 24, 2009 in Sydney , Australia ) was a literary scholar .

Like all Baltic Germans , he had to leave Estonia after the country was granted to the Soviet Union in 1939 as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact . Wilpert studied literature and linguistics , classical philology and philosophy in Heidelberg from 1953 to 1957 . After many years as a lecturer in Stuttgart (1957–1972) he was professor of German literature in Sydney .

His specialist dictionary of literature ( Kröner's pocket edition ) has been one of the most widely used and best-known reference works in German-language literary studies since the first edition in 1955. In addition, he has u. a. Written works on Goethe and Schiller as well as a German Baltic literary history .

Publications

  • Non-fiction dictionary of literature (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 231). 8th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-23108-5 (EA 1955); a special edition of this 8th edition appeared in 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 ).
  • with Ivar Ivask (ed.): Modern world literature. The contemporary literature of Europe and America (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 430). Kröner, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-520-43001-0 .
  • The lost shadow. Kröner, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-520-70101-4 .
  • German poet dictionary. Biographical-bibliographical dictionary on German literary history (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 288). 1963; 3rd, expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-28803-6 .
  • First editions of German poetry. Together with Adolf Gühring. 1967. (2nd revised edition. 1992, ISBN 3-520-80902-8 )
  • The German ghost story. Motif, form, development (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 406). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-40601-2 .
  • Goethe Lexicon (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 407). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9 .
  • Schiller Chronicle. His life and work. 2000, ISBN 3-15-018060-0 .
  • Baltic German literary history. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53525-9 .
  • The 101 most important questions: Goethe. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55872-6 .
  • The 101 most important questions: Schiller. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58687-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wilpert, Gero von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2009
Place of death Sydney