Gero von Wilpert

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Professor Dr. Gero von Wilpert (13 March 1933 – 24 December 2009) was a German author and professor for German Literature at the University of Sydney.^[1] Wilpert was born in Tartu (Dorpat), Estonia. Like all Baltic Germans, he was forced to leave Estonia after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the takeover of the country by the Soviet Union (1939–40). 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.

Professor Dr. Gero von Wilpert died in Sydney.^[2]

References

↑ welt.de "Gero von Wilpert ist tot" (German)
↑ zeit.de "Gero von Wilpert ist tot" (German)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 41854774 LCCN: n78096134 ISNI: 0000 0001 0891 0605 GND: 115717110

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Name	Wilpert, Gero Von
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Short description	German writer
Date of birth	13 March 1933
Place of birth
Date of death	24 December 2009
Place of death

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