Juerg Glauser

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Jürg Glauser (* 1951 in Zurich ) is a Swiss Scandinavian .

Life

From 1958 to 1971 Glauser attended the schools in Küsnacht , Zurich and Reykjavík ( Matura ). From 1971 to 1979 he studied Nordic studies, German and European folk literature at the Universities of Zurich , Uppsala , Oslo and Copenhagen . From 1976 to 1989 he was a part-time teacher at the Zurich School of Interpreters and Translators. In 1981 he received his doctorate in Nordic philology under Oskar Bandle at the University of Zurich . After that he was assistant for Nordic philology at the German Department of the University of Zurich until 1986. From 1986 to 1989 he was an employee of the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 1989 to 1991 he was senior assistant at the German Department at the University of Zurich. In 1991 Glauser received his habilitation for Nordic Philology at the University of Zurich .

From 1992 to 1994 he taught C3 Professor for Nordic Philology at the University of Tübingen . From 1994 until his retirement in 2017 he was a full professor of Nordic philology at the Universities of Basel and Zurich (coordination chair). From 2008 to 2010 Glauser was Dean of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Icelandic fairy tale sagas. Studies of prose literature in late medieval Iceland. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1983, ISBN 3-7190-0837-1 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1981).
  • Iceland. A literary story. Metzler, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02321-6 .

As editor:

  • with Julia Zernack: Germanism in the fin de siècle. Studies in the history of science on the work of Andreas Heusler . Schwabe, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7965-2163-0 .
  • Scandinavian literary history. Metzler, Stuttgart 2006; 2nd edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-02454-1 .
  • 50 years of Scandinavian studies in Switzerland. A brief history of the Nordic Philology departments at the University of Basel and the University of Zurich 1968–2018. Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 3-7720-8679-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germanentum im Fin de Siècle , Schwabe Verlag website , accessed on May 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the library network Nebis , accessed on May 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Glauser, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich