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German 120. The Age of Goethe
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Instructor Burgard Day/Time T 12:00–2:45pmMajor movements in German literature and thought from the mid-18th to early 19th century: Enlightenment, Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Classicism, Romanticism. Readings include Kant, Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe...
Antje Wessels (Universiteit Leiden) on "Zensur und Verankerung: Antikerezeption in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik"
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Antje Wessels is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. Her fields of interest are Roman Drama, Hellenistic and Imperial Literature, and History of Scholarship/Reception of Antiquity (19th/20th Century).
German 145. German and Austrian Modernism: Architecture, Art, Literature
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Day/Time MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM Instructor Burgard Explores the radical break with traditions of thinking, building, seeing, and representing that occurred at the end of the 19th-century in Germany and Austria, and the new forms of architecture, painting...
Alexander Sorenson, "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience"
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The German Studies Seminar presents Alexander Sorenson, speaking on "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience." Professor Sorenson (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2019) teaches German and Comparative Literature at Binghamton...
Judith Ryan
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Professor Ryan received her B.A. from Sydney University, Australia, and her Dr. phil. from the University of Münster, Germany. Before coming to Harvard, she taught for many years at Smith College. In addition to receiving grants from the Alexander von...
Alexander Rehding
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Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1998 and went on to postdoctoral fellowships at Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, before joining Harvard...
Ernst Osterkamp - The Poet and the "Risches"
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Michael Beer (1800-1833), famous for a few years early in life, is one of the many forgotten poets of the 19th century. This lecture will show why it can be rewarding to dig deeper into the work of an author whose dramas are generally neglected because of...
John T. Hamilton
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John Hamilton studied Comparative Literature, German, and Classics in New York, Paris, and Heidelberg. He has held previous teaching positions in Comparative Literature and German at New York University, with visiting professorships in Classics at the...
Robert Roessler
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Before coming to Harvard, Robert studied German Literature and History at the University of Vienna and was a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography. At Harvard, Robert continued to specialize in...
Undergraduate Student Opportunities
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Work Abroad Internship Program in Europe The Work Abroad Program offers students interested in opportunities in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland internships during the summer months. The program is open to all concentrations and allows students to...