Max Wehrli
Swiss literary scholar and Germanist
Max Wehrli | |
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Born | 17 September 1909 Zurich |
Died | 18 December 1998(1998-12-18) (aged 89) Zurich |
Alma mater | University of Zurich |
Scientific career | |
Fields | German studies |
Institutions | University of Zurich |
Doctoral advisor | Emil Ermatinger |
Doctoral students | Harald Burger |
Max Wehrli (17 September 1909 – 18 December 1998) was a Swiss literary scholar and Germanist. Wehrli studied from 1928 till 1935 Germanic and Greek at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin. Among his teachers were Emil Ermatinger, Ernst Howald and Nicolai Hartmann. 1936 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Zurich.
Since 1953 Max Wehrli was tenured professor for the history of German literature at Zurich. 1955 he was visiting professor at the Columbia University in New York City.
Awards
- 1979 Prix Gottfried Keller
Works
- Johann Jakob Bodmer und die Geschichte der Literatur. Zürich, Phil. I Sekt., Diss. Frauenfeld, Leipzig 1936.
- Das barocke Geschichtsbild in Lohensteins Arminius. Frauenfeld, Leipzig 1938.
- Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft. Bern 1951.
- Gottfried Kellers Verhältnis zum eigenen Schaffen. Basel 1963.
- Formen mittelalterlicher Erzählung: Aufsätze. Zürich 1969.
- Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart 1980.
- Literatur im deutschen Mittelalter: eine poetologische Einführung. Stuttgart 1984.
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List of Gottfried-Keller-Preis winners
- 1922: Jakob Bosshart
- 1925: Heinrich Federer
- 1927: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
- 1929: Josef Nadler
- 1931: Hans Carossa
- 1933: Festgabe Universität Zürich
- 1936: Hermann Hesse
- 1938: Ernst Gagliardi
- 1943: Robert Faesi
- 1947: Fritz Ernst
- 1949: Rudolf Kassner
- 1952: Gertrud von Le Fort
- 1954: Werner Kaegi
- 1956: Max Rychner
- 1959: Maurice Zermatten
- 1962: Emil Staiger
- 1965: Meinrad Inglin
- 1967: Edzard Schaper
- 1969: Golo Mann
- 1971: Marcel Raymond
- 1973: Ignazio Silone
- 1975: Hans Urs von Balthasar
- 1977: Elias Canetti
- 1979: Max Wehrli
- 1981: Philippe Jaccottet
- 1983: Hermann Lenz
- 1985: Herbert Lüthy
- 1989: Jacques Mercanton
- 1992: Erika Burkart
- 1994: Gerhard Meier
- 1997: Giovanni Orelli
- 1999: Peter Bichsel
- 2001: Ágota Kristóf
- 2004: Klaus Merz
- 2007: Fabio Pusterla
- 2010: Gerold Späth
- 2013: Collective of writers Bern ist überall
- 2016: Pietro De Marchi
- 2019: Adolf Muschg and Thomas Hürlimann