Harald Weinrich
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Harald Weinrich (born 1927 in Wismar) is a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings. In 1993 he became a professor of the Collège de France, in the chair of Romance literature.
His doctorate and Habilitation were from the University of Münster. He took a founding chair at the new University of Bielefeld in 1968. From 1978 to 1992 he was at the University of Munich in a chair of German as Foreign Language.
He was won many literary prizes, including the 1992 Karl-Vossler-Preis and the 1997 Hansischer Goethe-Preis. His books are widely translated in European languages.
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- Das Ingenium Don Quijotes (1956)
- Tempus - Besprochene und erzählte Welt (1964)
- Literatur für Leser (1971)
- Wege der Sprachkultur (1985)
- Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache (1993)
- Lethe (1997) in English as Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting (2004) translated by Stephen Rendall
- Kleine Literaturgeschichte der Heiterkeit (2001)
- Knappe Zeit. Kunst und Ökonomie des befristeten Lebens (2004)
