Jost Hermand

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University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department of German
868 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
(608) 262-2192 main office

TABULA VITAE

Biographical Data:

Born:   11 April 1930 in Kassel, Germany

Education:

1940-45 Paul von Hindenburg Realgymnasium (Berlin-Wilmersdorf), Kirchenpopowo, Groß-Ottingen, and Sulmierschütz (NS-Warthegau)
1946-49 Realgymnasium 1 (Kassel)
1950-56 University of Marburg (German Language and Literature, Philosophy, History, and Art History)
1955   Dr. phil. summa cum laude, University of Marburg
1956  Staatsexamen, University of Marburg
 

Teaching Positions:

1958-61  Assistant Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1961-63  Associate Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1963-67 Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1967-2004 William F.Vilas Research Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2003-
 Honorary Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin
2004-
 William F.Vilas Emeritus Research Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Visiting Appointments:

Visiting Professor:

1967  Harvard University (in German Literature)
1971    University of Texas-Austin (in German Literature)
1976    Free University of West Berlin (in German Literature)
1978   University of Bremen (in German Literature)
1981   University of Gießen (in German Literature)
1981/82  University of Marburg (in Art History)
1986  University of Essen (in Musicology and German Literature)
1987    University of Marburg (in Art History)
1988    University of Kassel (in Art History)
1989    University of Freiburg (in German Literature)
1991   University of Marburg (in German Literature and Art History)
1993    University of Potsdam (in German-Jewish History)
1994    University of Oldenburg (in German Literature)
1994   Free University of Berlin (in German Literature and History of Communications)
1998    University of Munich (in German Literature)
2000   University of Cologne (in German Literature)
2001   Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2003
 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2004 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2005
 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2006 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2007 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2008 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)
2009 Humboldt University of Berlin (in German Literature)

Lecture Tours:

1971  England and Ireland
1973  Australia and New Zealand
1974   England
1975   South Africa
1976   Sweden
1983  Holland
1989  Italy
1998  Norway

Awards:

1956   Winner of Marburg University Prize for Distinguished Dissertation
1962/63   American Council of Learned Societies Fellow
1967   Vilas Research Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985  Member of the Saxon Academy
1991   Hilldale Award for Academic Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1995  Visiting Senior Scholar at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
1997 Honorary Member of the American Association of Teachers of German
2003 Honarary Professorship of German at the Humboldt University in Berlin
2003 Founding member of the Berlin Heinrich Heine Society
2009 Member of the International PEN-Club
2009

Honored Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2010

Honored Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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