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Max Wehrli
Swiss literary scholar and Germanist
Died aged 89VirgoSwitzerland
Biography
Max Wehrli (17 September 1909 – 18 December 1998) was a Swiss literary scholar and Germanist. Wehrli studied from 1928 till 1935 about Germanic and Greek at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin. Among his teachers were Emil Ermatinger, Ernst Howald and Nicolai Hartmann. In 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. In 1955, he was visiting professor at the Columbia University in New York City.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- rector
Employers / organisations
- University of Zurich
Awards & honours (3)
- Gottfried-Keller-Preis
- honorary doctor of the University of Munich
- Goethe Medal
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- Max Wehrli died on December 18, 1998 at the age of 89.
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- Max Wehrli was born on September 17, 1909.
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- Max Wehrli was born in Zurich.
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- Max Wehrli's zodiac sign is Virgo.
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- Max Wehrli is a citizen of Switzerland.
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