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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)

Lecture Tours:

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

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