Wilhelm Kellermann

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Wilhelm Kellermann (born June 19, 1907 ; † January 14, 1980 ) was a German Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Kellermann received his doctorate in Würzburg with studies on Charles-Louis Philippe, 1874-1909 (Wertheim 1931) and habilitated there in 1934 on the structural style and worldview of Chrestiens von Troyes in the Perceval novel (Halle 1936, reprint 1967). He taught in Würzburg until 1940, then in Göttingen , first as an associate professor and from 1943 as a full professor. From 1969 to 1971 he was President of the International Arthurian Society.

Other works

  • (Ed.) Blaise Pascal, Pensées sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, Göttingen 1947

literature

  • Journal for Romance Philology 96, 1980, pp. 733-734
  • Arthurian knighthood in the late Middle Ages. Ethos and ideology; Lectures [in memory of Wilhelm Kellermann] at the symposium of the German section of the International Artus Society from 10th to 13th Nov. 1983 in the castle Rauischholzhausen (University of Giessen), ed. by Friedrich Wolfschrift, Giessen 1984
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann , "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the "Third Reich", 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 729, 726 (there wrongly death date 1990)

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