Rainer Gruenter

Rainer Gruenter (born June 10, 1918 in Düsseldorf , † February 5, 1993 in Wuppertal ) was a German historian and historian and founding rector of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

Life

Rainer Gruenter received his doctorate from the University of Cologne and was later a lecturer at King's College in London . He was a member of the International Seminar at Harvard University founded by Henry Kissinger and completed his habilitation in 1956 at the Free University of Berlin . He then taught at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Cologne. He later taught at the Mannheim Business School , today's University of Mannheim , and was rector there in 1968/69.

In 1972 Gruenter was appointed the first rector of the newly founded comprehensive university in Wuppertal . In 1983 he was replaced by Josef M. Häußling .

Rainer Gruenter was in a relationship with the writer Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes (1928–2011) in the early 1950s and had a daughter with her, Undine Gruenter (1952–2002), who was also a writer.

Honors

1983: Ring of Honor of the City of Wuppertal
1986: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
1993: Honorary senator of the Bergische Universität
1997: A street on the grounds of the Freudenberg campus of the Bergische Universität was called Rainer-Gruenter-Straße .

Publications (selection)

Art Nouveau in literature , in: Yearbook of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt 1976.
With Wolfgang Adam (ed.): Tristan Studien , Universitätsverlag Winter , Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3825345198 .
With Heike Wunderlich (ed.): Vom Elend des Schönen: Studies for Literature and Art , Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3446152908 .

literature

Joachim Studberg: The "Law of Small Numbers": Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Rainer Gruenter (1918-1993) and his understanding of the university . In: Matei Chihaia / Georg Eckert (eds.): Colossal miniatures. Festschrift for Gerrit Walther , Münster: Aschendorff 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-13411-5 , pp. 147–158.

Web links

Literature by and about Rainer Gruenter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gruenter, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and historian, founding rector of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 1993
Place of death	Wuppertal

[1] Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .