Manfred Engelbert

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Manfred Engelbert (born March 5, 1942 in Dessau ) is a German Romanist .

Career

After graduating from high school in Bremen, Engelbert studied Romance studies and political science in Marburg , Paris and Hamburg from 1961 to 1967 . After a research stay in Salamanca (1966), he received his doctorate in 1967 with Hans Bottle with a dissertation on Calderón de la Barca .

From 1968 to 1974 Engelbert was a research assistant at the Ibero-American Research Institute of the University of Hamburg. His lectures focused on Spanish and French literature since 1500. During a research stay in Peru, Chile and Argentina (January to April 1970) he started a habilitation project on Ricardo Palma , which he later broke off. In 1974 he accepted a call to the position of C4 professor at the chair for Romance Philology at the University of Göttingen . He was director of the seminar several times, was a member of the university's senate from 1981 to 1983, was dean of studies in 2001/2002 and dean of the faculty of philosophy from 2002 to 2004. In 2007 he retired.

Manfred Engelbert was a liaison professor at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In the 90s he went on numerous research and lecture trips to Chile. In 1992 he was awarded the Orden Palmes Académiques .

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