Wolfgang F. Frühwald#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1275 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://dfg.de/en/dfg_profile/history/presidents/wolfgang_fruehwald/index.html |
Wolfgang F. Frühwald passed away January 18, 2019.
Positions Held
- Since 1999 President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1994 - 1995 Chairman of the European Association of Research Organisations
- 1992 - 1997 President of the DFG (german Research Foundation)
- 1989 Deputy Rector of the University of Munich
- 1974 - 1982 Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Munich
- 1970 - 1974 Full Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Trier-Kaiserslautern
Fields of Scholarship
- Religious prose of the Middle Ages
- German literature of the age of Romanticism
- Modern German literature
- History of science
- Exile research
- Science organisations
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1995 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1995 Honorary doctorates of the Universities of Dublin and Bristol
- 1997 Honorary doctorate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1998 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- 1999 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and the Arts
- 1999 Honorary doctorateUniversity of Münster
- Honorary Member of the American Association of German Studies
- Chairman of the Commission "Society 2000" of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Chairman of of the Scientific Commission of the State of Lower Saxony
- Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Minister for Research, Science and the Arts
