Robert Seidel (philologist)

Robert Seidel (born June 16, 1962 in Darmstadt ) is a German specialist in German . He holds a professorship for modern German literature / early modern times and rhetoric at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Seidel passed his Abitur at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. From 1982 to 1989 he studied Latin, Greek and German, which he graduated with the first state examination and from 1988 to 1991 he did his doctorate. From 1991 to 1993 he completed a teaching traineeship. From 1993 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant at the German Department of Heidelberg University. From 1995 to 2001 he worked as a university assistant to Wilhelm Kühlmann at the University of Heidelberg.

Since 2003 he has been Professor of Modern German Literature / Early Modern Times and Rhetoric at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Seidel was elected to the scientific advisory board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and a member of the Hessian Historical Commission .

Publications

Late humanism in Silesia. Caspar Dornau (1577-1631). Life and work (= early modern times. 20). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-36520-X (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1991).
Literary communication in the territorial state. Functional relationships in the literature business in Hessen-Darmstadt at the time of the late Enlightenment (= early modern times. 83). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-484-36583-8 (Also: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper).
with Julian Paulus: Opitz Bibliography. 1800-2002. Palatina-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-932608-03-8 at Google Books at Academia

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personal data
SURNAME	Seidel, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt