Gero von Wilpert
Gero von Wilpert ( born March 13, 1933, Tartu ( German: Dorpat ), Estonia, † December 24, 2009 in Sydney, Australia ) was a German author and literary critic.
Life and work
Wilpert studied from 1953 to 1957 literature and linguistics, classical philology and philosophy in Heidelberg. After many years of working as a lecturer in Stuttgart (1957-1972) he was a professor of German literature in Sydney.
His kind words book of literature has been one of the first 1955 edition of the most widely used and best-known reference works of German literature science. In addition, he has, inter alia, Works to Goethe and Schiller, and a Baltic German literature written history.
Works
- Subject dictionary of the literature. In 1955. ( 8 ext. Edition. 2001, ISBN 3-520-23108-5 )
- The lost shadows. Kröner, 1978, ISBN 3-520-70101-4.
- German poet lexicon. 1988, ISBN 3-520-28803-6.
- First editions of German poetry. together with Adolf Gühring. In 1967. (2nd revised. Edition. 1992, ISBN 3-520-80902-8 )
- The German ghost story. 1994, ISBN 3-520-40601-2.
- Goethe -Lexikon. 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9.
- Schiller Chronicle. His life and work. 2000, ISBN 3-15-018060-0.
- Baltic German literary history. C. H. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53525-9.
- The 101 most important questions: Goethe. C. H. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55872-6.
- The 101 most important questions: Schiller. C. H. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58687-3.
Publisher
- Encyclopedia of world literature. In 1963. ( 4th ed. 2004)