Background
HABICHT, Werner was born on January 29, 1930 in Schweinfurt. Son of Wilhelm Habicht and Magda (nee Muller) Habicht.
HABICHT, Werner was born on January 29, 1930 in Schweinfurt. Son of Wilhelm Habicht and Magda (nee Muller) Habicht.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Munich, 1957. Habilitation, University Munich, 1965.
Assistant Freie Universitat, Berlin 1957-1960, University of Munich 1960-1965. Professor, of English, University of Heidelberg 1966-1970, University of Bonn 1970-1978, University of Wurzburg since 1978. Visiting Professor University of Texas at Austin 1981, University of Colorado, Boulder 1987, Ohio State University, Columbus 1988.
President Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West 1976-1988, Vice-President since 1988.
Author: Die Gebärde in Englischen Dichtungen des Mittelalters, 1959, Studien zur Dramenform vor Shakespeare, 1968, Shakespeare and the German Imagination, 1994, Texte und Kontexte der englischen Literatur in Jahr 1595, 1995. Editor English and American Studies in German, 1968-1983, Jahrbuch Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft West, 1981-1995, Literatur Brockhaus, 3 vols., 1988, second edition, 1995.Contributor articles on English literature and drama to professional journals.
Member Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft (president 1976-1988), Deutscher Hochschulverband, International Shakespeare Association (honorary vice president since 1996), Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literature Mainz, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.