Gero von Wilpert

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Author Gero von Wilpert was born in 1933 in Tartu (Dorpat), Estonia. Upon the takeover of Estonia by the Soviet Union (1939 - 1940), he left the country, as did many other Baltic Germans. From 1953 to 1957 he studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he was at times a docent. He then settled near Stuttgart to work as independent author and lecturer. Von Wilpert published several editions of an encyclopedia of literary descriptions Sachwörterbuch der Literatur. He also wrote a comprehensive Lexicon of World Literature and earlier had published a German Literature in Illustrations and a Journal on Schiller.