Hans-Henrik Krummacher

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Hans-Henrik Krummacher (born August 24, 1931 in Werden ) is a German specialist in German.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1949 at the Grauen Kloster grammar school , he studied German, philosophy, art history and classical philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1949 to 1956 . After receiving his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1956 (“as if” in poetry), he was a research assistant at the Schiller National Museum from 1956 to 1958 and a research assistant at the University of Cologne from 1958 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1967 he had a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG . After his habilitation in 1967 in Cologne for Modern German Philology (Young Gryphius and Tradition), he took up a chair in Münster in 1967 and was appointed to a chair in Modern German literary history in Mainz . In 1972 he was visiting professor at Middlebury College . From 1974 to 1982 he was a member of the Senate Commission for German Research of the DFG. From 1976 to 1987 he was a member of the permanent working group for German bibliography of the DFG (1976–1983 chairman). In 1980 he turned down the offer of a chair for modern German language and literature in Vienna . In 1999 he retired .

His main research interests are baroque literature, the history and theory of poetry, literature and theology in the 16th – 18th centuries. Century, Edition Philology, Andreas Gryphius and Eduard Mörike .

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