Peter-André Alt

Peter-André Alt (born 16 June 1960 in Berlin) is a German literary scholar and President of the Free University of Berlin.

Alt was appointed as Professor of modern German literature at the University of Bochum in 1995, at the University of Würzburg in 2002, and at the Free University of Berlin in 2005. He was director of Dahlem Research School from 2008 to 2010. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University and several Italian universities.

On 12 May 2010 Alt was elected President of the Free University of Berlin. He became President of the German Schiller Society in July 2012.[1]

He has published 16 books and a number of articles, focusing in his research on the early modern period, the Weimar Classicism and the modern classics.

Awards

In 2005, he was awarded the Schillerpreis der Stadt Marbach am Neckar.

References

  1. Pressemitteilung der Schillergesellschaft vom 14. Juli 2012

Selected works

  1. 1759–1791. ISBN 978-3-406-58681-1.
  2. 1791–1805. ISBN 978-3-406-58682-8.

Literature

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