Background
Classen, Albrecht was born on April 23, 1956 in Hesse, Germany. Son of Traugott Walter and Annemarie (Kraft) Classen.
( This book offers the first complete English translation...)
This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and also deeply religious-conservative poetry of the entire Middle Ages and far beyond. German scholarship and musicologists have long recognized the extraordinary strength and power of Oswald’s Middle High German songs, both in terms of his poetic imagery and his musical performance. This book proves Oswald's œuvre to be one of the most idiosyncratic and individualistic in the entire late Middle Ages. Classen reveals how Oswald continued the medieval tradition, yet was a true innovator, exploring new attitudes toward love, sexuality, travel, war, politics, language, music, and, above all, his own individuality.
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Classen, Albrecht was born on April 23, 1956 in Hesse, Germany. Son of Traugott Walter and Annemarie (Kraft) Classen.
Master of Arts, University Marburg, Germany, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1986.
Lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1986-1987; assistant professor German, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1987-1992; associate professor, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1992-1994; professor, U. Arizona, Tucson, since 1994.
( This book offers the first complete English translation...)
(This book offers the first complete English translation o...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers German (chapter president 1992-1996, president President' Assembly since 1996), German Studies Association, South Eastern Medieval Association (executive council 1993-1996), Medieval Association of the Pacific.
Married Carolyn Aiko Sugiyama, June 16,1984. 1 child, Stephan.