John Pizer

Background

Son of Marvin (a medical doctor) and Roselle (a homemaker; maiden name, Osoff) Pizer, Mr. Pizer was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, on May 4, 1953.

Education

John Pizer graduated from University of Washington, receiving Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975, Master of Arts in 1979 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1985.

Career

Between 1982 and 1983 he was an assistant editor of Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. In 1985 Mr. Pizer was appointed proofreader and editor of software user manuals in German by Microsoft Corp., Bellevue, WA. Since 1987 he held the post of professor of German at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

John Pizer has been a contributor to books and of about thirty articles and reviews to academic journals, including German Studies Review, Lessing Yearbook, Modern Austrian Literature, Germanic Review, Philosophy and Literature, and New German Critique. He was a Germanics editor of Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography since 1992.

Achievements

• John Pizer has written a number of books connected with history.

Works

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  • Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature

    (The first scholarly book treating the huge amount of rece...)

  • Ego-Alter Ego: Double And/As Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism

    (The chief theorists of poetic realism, Julian Schmidt and...)

  • The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice

    (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Welt...)

  • Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought

    (This provocative book addresses one of the central and mo...)

    1995
  • The historical perspective in German genre theory: Its development from Gottsched to Hegel 1985

Connections

John Pizer married Patricia Hare (a psychotherapist) on January 6, 1991. They have one daughter, Jasmin.

Father:

Marvin Pizer

Mother:

Roselle (Osoff) Pizer

Wife:

Patricia Hare

Daughter:

Jasmin Pizer