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)
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