Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: 75th Birthday on June 15, 2023

On June 15, 2023, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht celebrates his 75th birthday.

The author was born in Würzburg in 1948 and studied Romance philology, German philology, philosophy and sociology in Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca (Spain) and Pavia (Italy).

After obtaining his postdoctoral qualification in 1974, he was a professor in Bochum from 1975 to 1982 and at the University of Siegen from 1983 to 1989. He has been teaching at Stanford University since 1989, where he is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature. Furthermore, he is an instructor and board member at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, a Fellow at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gumbrecht was also an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montréal, Professeur Attaché at Collège de France, and an Affiliate Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

Gumbrecht is co-editor of Grundrisse der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, Figurae – Readings in Medieval Culture, Writing Scene and Espaces Metisses and regularly writes for publications such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Merkur, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Estado de São Paulo.

His works have been widely translated and he is a prominent figure in international academia. Suhrkamp most recently published his work »The Prose of the World«. Denis Diderot and the Periphery of the Enlightenment. We congratulate our author on this joyous occasion.