philosopher university professor
Hagenbüchle studied first architecture at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich and completed a two year internship in Basel, then linguistics, English and German at the University of Zurich. After studying in Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Nancy he finished his Doctor of Philosophy in Zurich 1964. In 1974 he finished the habilitation in Zürich.
From 1970 to 1972 Hagenbüchle was docotoral fellow at Yale University. After visiting professorships in Bern, Göttingen and at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, he was appointed in 1975 to a professorship at the newly opened University of Wuppertal. In 1980, Hagenbüchle simultaneously got two calls to the University of Marburg and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt.
Hagenbüchle was from 1980 to 1996 Chair of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Roland Hagenbüchle is an internationally renowned interpreter of the works of American poet After the retirement in 1996 Hagenbüchle moved his research interests to the broader field of cultural philosophy, especially on interculturality, the problematic relationship between the different cultures and the critique of Western thought.
