Jan-Dirk Müller

Jan-Dirk Müller (born July 4, 1941 in Cologne ) is a German Germanic Medievalist . He is emeritus professor for older German language and literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Müller studied German studies, history and philosophy at the universities of Vienna , Tübingen and Cologne from 1960 to 1966 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1968 he did his doctorate in Cologne with the work “Wieland's late novels”.

From 1968 to 1977 he took up positions as a research assistant in Duisburg (Chair for German Language and Literature until 1970) and in Heidelberg (German Institute - Older Department). From 1973 to 1975 a postdoctoral fellowship followed, and from 1975 a private lecturer in Heidelberg. In 1976 there followed his habilitation in German philology with a thesis on "Literature and Court Society around Maximilian I." In 1978 he moved to Bielefeld University as an academic senior counselor , Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies until 1981. In 1981 he was appointed to a professorship C3) for Ancient German Studies at the University of Münster (Dean's Office for German Studies 1983 to 1984). From 1984 to 1991 he accepted the call (C4) for Older German Literature / Medieval Studies at the University of Hamburg . From 1991 until his retirement in 2009 he held the chair for Older German Language and Literature at the LMU in Munich (1997 to 1999 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty for Linguistics and Literature Studies). In 2011 he received the Meyer Struckmann Prize for research in the humanities and social sciences .

Memberships and other obligations

• 1976–1979 member of the board of the Association of German University Germanists
• 1981–1994 lecturer for German language and literature of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period in the literature reports of the Archive for Reformation History
• 1987–1996 member of the Senate Commission for German Studies of the German Research Foundation, among other things as chairman
• 1989–1994 Deputy Expert Reviewer at the DFG
• 1991 visiting professor, Washington University St. Louis
• 1994–2000 Elected expert reviewer by the DFG
• 1995 full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1998 Chairman of the Medieval Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 2000 member and chair of the advisory board of the Institute for Cultural History of the Early Modern Age in Osnabrück
• 2001–2005 member of the science. Advisory board of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
• 2001 Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
• 1994–2002 member of the advisory board of the German Academic Exchange Service

Editorships

• 1989–2003 editor of the "Reallexikons der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft"
• 1994 knowledge for the farm. The late medieval writing process using the example of Heidelberg in the 15th century. Munich (= Münstersche Medieval Writings , 67)
• 1996–2012 editor of articles on the history of the German language and literature

Web links

• Website of Jan-Dirk Müller at the Institute for German Philology in Munich
• Selection of publications by Jan-Dirk Müller in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii