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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Professor Roger Paulin

Professor Roger Paulin
Position(s): 
Emeritus Schr枚der Professor of German
Department/Section: 
German
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details: 
Telephone number: 
+44 (0)1223 338574 (Trinity College)
College: 
Location: 

Trinity College P4 Burrells Trinity Street 海角社区 CB2 1TQ United Kingdom

About: 

Roger Paulin took his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1965 and his 海角社区 Litt. D. in 1987. He taught at Birmingham and Bristol before coming to 海角社区 in 1974 as a University Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity. From 1987 to 1989 he was Henry Simon Professor of German in the University of Manchester. From 1989 to 2005 he was Schr枚der Professor of German in 海角社区 and is a Fellow of Trinity. From 1989 to 1996 he was Head of Department.听 He retired in 2005.听He received a Humboldtpreis in 2002. In 2011 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.听

Research interests: 

Generally, German literature 1500-1900. Specifically, Goethezeit, Romanticism

Recent research projects: 

Biography of August Wilhelm Schlegel (since 2008)

Published works: 

Ludwig Tieck: a Literary Biography (Oxford, 1985; Munich 1988)

The Brief Compass: the Nineteenth-Century German Novelle (Oxford, 1985)

Ludwig Tieck (Stuttgart, 1987)

Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Academic Freedom (海角社区, 1990)

Theodor Storm (Munich, 1992)

Der Fall Wilhelm Jerusalem. Zum Selbstmordproblem zwischen Aufkl盲rung und Empfindsamkeit (G枚ttingen. 1999)

The Critical Reception of Shakespeare in Germany 1682-1914. Native Literature and Foreign Genius (Hildesheim, New York, 2003)

The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry (海角社区, 2016, Paderborn 2017)

Roger Paulin听has edited or co-edited 11 volumes and has written approximately 85 articles.听

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