Hendrik Birus

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Hendrik Birus (born April 16, 1943 in Kamenz ) is a German specialist in German . He taught comparative literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Jacobs University in Bremen .

Life

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. and habilitation (1984) he received a call to the LMU Munich in 1987 , where he was appointed director of the newly founded Institute for General and Comparative Literature in 1988 and was professor until 2006. Visiting professor at the universities of Vienna, Rome, Illinois, Indiana, Washington and Yale. In 2006 he became Vice President and Dean of the School for Humanities and Social Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen , where he has been Wisdom Professor of Comparative Literature since 2014.

Birus is one of the most renowned German Goethe researchers. He edited and commented on the two-volume edition of the West-Eastern Divan as part of the Frankfurt Goethe Edition . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Poetic naming. On the meaning of the names in Lessing's Nathan the Wise. 1978.
  • Hermeneutic positions: Schleiermacher - Dilthey - Heidegger - Gadamer. 1982.
  • Comparison. Goethe's introduction to the spelling of Jean Paul. 1986.
  • (Ed.) Johann Wolfgang Goethe: West-Eastern Divan. 2 volumes (Frankfurt edition) 1994.
  • (with Sebastian Donat) Goethe - a final universal genius? 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the person. In: LMU. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Kristin Beck: Hendrik Birus is the new Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the IUB. In: Information Service Science. University of Bayreuth , August 2, 2006, accessed April 9, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Birus, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamenz