Wolfgang Pross#
| Membership Number: | 4611 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus of the University of Bern
- 1988 - 2011 Full Professor of “Modern German Literature and General and Comparative Literary Theory”( Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur und Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft)
- Director of the Institut für Germanistik, University of Bern (since 1988)
- 1.9.1999 - 31.8.2001 Dean of the Philosophycal-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern
- 1.9.1997 - 31.8.1999 Vice-Dean of the Philosophycal-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern SS 2003: Visiting Professor (Comparative Literary Studies) in Fribourg (CH)
- WS 2000/2001 Visiting Professor (Comparative Literary Studies) in Fribourg (CH)
- WS/SS 1989/1990 Visiting Professor (Contemporary German Literature) in Fribourg (CH)
- SS 1987 Visiting Professor (Modern German Literature) in Vienna (Austria)
- SS 1984 Visiting Professor (Modern German Literature) in Giessen (Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative studies
- Enlightenment
- History of Theatre (XVIII cent.)
- Philology and methodology
- German literature
- Italian literature
- History of social and natural sciences
- Anthropology and natural law
- Renaissance
- Musicology and Art History
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Herder Medal (Internationale Herder-Gesellschaft/International Herder Society)
- 1978 - 1980 Habilitation grant (DFG)
- 1974/75 Volkswagen Research Fellowship (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)
- 1967/68 Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia Research Fellowship
- 1964 - 1971 Stiftung Maximilianeum, München (Fellowship)
