Martin Fontius

Martin Fontius (born September 20, 1934 in Jena ) is a German literary scholar ( Romanist ).

Fontius in 1964 at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the publication history of Voltaire Dr. phil. PhD . In the following years he specialized in literary and intellectual-historical aspects of the Enlightenment in France and Germany. After the Academy of Sciences of the GDR received him in 1988 as Dr. sc. , he was appointed professor in 1989. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he was director of the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy from 1991 to 1992 , then until 1995 he was involved in the formation of the research focus European Enlightenment, which was established as a non-university research center at the University of Potsdam . Fontius was director of this research center from 1996 until his retirement in 1999. His successor was Günther Lottes from 1999 to 2007 .

Works

• Martin Fontius, Anneliese Klingenberg (ed.): Karl Philipp Moritz and the 18th century. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-10724-3 .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar , 20th Edition (2005), p. 846.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Fontius in the catalog of the German National Library