Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Universität Würzburg, Germany, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy, Universität Würzburg, Germany, 1971.
Visiting professor University Madison, Wisconsin, 1981, 1998, University Marburg, Germany, 1984, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1999—2000, walter benjamin chair, 2003—2004. Department chair, Institute German Studies Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, 1985—1986, founder and chair, graduate school classicism and roman, 1997—2006, head, collaborative research center, 1998—2003, member, steering committee collaborative research center, 2003—2008, professor emeritus, since 2006. Chair Summer School Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn, Germany, since 1978.
Member, board of trustees Foundation for Study of Romanticism, Munich, since 1994.
Member of Heinrich-von-Kleist Gesellschaft, Lichtenberg Gesellschaft, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, International Raabe Gesellschaft, E.T.A. Hoffmann Gesellschaft, Georg Büchner Gesellschaft (vice president).