Rolf-Dieter Kluge

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Rolf-Dieter Kluge (born June 26, 1937 in Pirna ) is a German Slavist .

After graduating from high school, Kluge studied geography, German, philosophy and Slavic studies at the University of Mainz and the Free University of Berlin and passed the state examination in Berlin in 1961. From 1963 he was an assistant at the University of Mainz, where Aleksandr Bloks obtained his doctorate in 1965 with a thesis on "Western Europe and Russia in the World View". In 1972 he became an assistant professor there, and in 1975 he completed his habilitation with a thesis “From critical to socialist realism. The literary tradition in Russia 1880–1925 ”and was appointed to the University of Freiburg .

From 1982 to 2002 he was a full professor for Slavic literature at the University of Tübingen . In 1989/90 he was Dean of the New Philology Faculty and in 1994/95 Vice President of the University of Tübingen. After his retirement in 2002 he became a professor at the University of Warsaw .

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