Matthias Meyer (literary scholar)

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Matthias Meyer (born December 9, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German literary scholar and Medievalist .

Life

After studying German , Slavonic and Middle and Modern History at the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), he initially worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin and Bielefeld University and then held a visiting professorship at the University of Beijing and Visiting professor at the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin. Meyer has lived in Vienna since 2007 and works at the University of Vienna as a university professor for older German literature with a special focus on the late Middle Ages, including the early modern period; from 2010 he was vice dean and has been dean of the Philological and Cultural Studies Faculty of the University of Vienna since 2012 .

Meyer has been treasurer of the Heimito von Doderer Society since it was founded .

Works

  • The availability of fiction. Interpretations and poetological investigations on the Arthurian novel and the aventiuric Dietrichepik of the 13th century . Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-8253-0176-1 (= GRM supplement 12; print version of the dissertation).
  • Aventiurs of the Sex. Models of masculinity in 13th century literature . (Ed. With Martin Baisch, Hendrikje Haufe, Michael Mecklenburg, Andrea Sieber) Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89971-130-0 .
  • The genealogy adventure. Father-son relationships in the Middle Ages . (Ed. With Johannes Keller, Michael Mecklenburg) Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-203-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://germanistik.univie.ac.at/haben/meyer-matthias/

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover