Klaus Grubmüller
Klaus Grubmüller (born August 18, 1938 in Munich ) is a German Germanic Medievalist .
Life
He completed his studies (1958–1964) in German and Latin Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a doctorate in 1965 . After completing his habilitation in 1974, scientific advisor and professor at LMU. From 1977 to 1991 he taught as a professor of German philology at the University of Münster . From 1986 to 1994 he was a specialist reviewer for the DFG , and has since worked regularly as a special reviewer. From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the Senate Commission for German Research of the DFG. Since 1991 he has been Professor of German Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Since 1993 he has been a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . From 1994 to 2002 he headed the mediaeval work group of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek . In 1999 he was the initiator and director of the interdisciplinary center for medieval and early modern research at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 2000 he was co-founder of the International Max Planck Research School Values and Changing Values (Georg-August University and Max Planck Institute for History).
His main research interests are medieval comparative literature, the history of European novelism in the Middle Ages, Latin-German language and literary relations, minnesong, courtly novels, fairy poetry, late Middle Ages and the history of texts and traditions (manuscript and edition studies).
Fonts (selection)
- Vocabularius Ex quo. Investigations into Latin-German vocabularies of the late Middle Ages . Munich 1967, OCLC 1014638735 .
- Master Esopus. Investigations into the history and function of the fable in the Middle Ages . Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7608-3356-X .
- with Gerd Dicke : The Fables of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. A catalog of the German versions and their Latin equivalents . Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7705-2488-8 .
- The order, the wit and the chaos. A history of European novellism in the Middle Ages: Fabliau, Märe, Novelle . Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-64029-4 .
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| SURNAME | Grubmüller, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medievalist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |