Willi Erzgraeber

The Author: Willi Erzgräber, 1926-2001. He studied English and American, Romance und German Language and Literature and Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt/Main. From 1956 to 1961 he was Lecturer then Professor at the University of Frankfurt/Main. From 1962 to 1966 he worked as Professor for English Literature at Saarbrücken, from 1966 to 1970 in Frankfurt, and from 1970 to 1994 in Freiburg. In 1978 he taught as Visiting Professor in Amherst, Mass. From 1980 to 1983 he was president of the Deutscher Anglistentag. In 1994 he was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Massachusetts. In 1994 he was appointed as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.