Victor Lange

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Victor Lange (13 July 1908 — 29 June 1996) was a renowned

Germanist, known primarily for his work at Princeton University.[1]

Biography

Born in

Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1950 and 1967. From 1962, he held an honorary professorship at the Free University of Berlin
.

In 1959, he was honored with the Commanders' Cross by the German Government. Among the other honors conferred on him were the Goethe Gold Medal in Frankfurt in 1965 and, in 1966, the Friedrich Gundolph Prize of the Deutsche Akademie. He received the University of California's Chancellor's Citation in 1985 and in 1993 the Weimar Goethe Medal in Gold.

In 1966, he arranged the meeting of the

Gruppe 47
in Princeton and, as President of the International Verein Germanstein he hosted their meeting in Princeton in 1970.

His most important published work is The Classical Age of German Literature, 1740–1815 (New York, Holmes & Meier, 1982). An exhaustive bibliography of his writings was published posthumously in the Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (a

Peter Lang
serial).

He taught as Guest Professor in many universities:

Melbourne University (Australia), Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, the University of New Zealand (Auckland), the University of California (at Davis, Berkeley, and San Diego), and lectured widely. He was the founding president of the Goethe Society of North America
(in which he served from 1980 to 1989).

Death

He died of heart failure on 29 June 1996 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 87.

References

  1. ISBN 9783110154856
    .
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Lange&oldid=1189428013"