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Wolfgang Clemen (born 9 March 1909 in Bonn, Germany; died 16 March 1990 in Endorf, Bavaria, Germany) was an eminent German literary scholar who helped reestablish English Studies in Germany after World War II. His father, Paul Clemen, was a well-known art historian. Biography/CareerClemen studied from 1928-34 at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Berlin, München, Bonn and Cambridge. Among his academic teachers were Ernst Robert Curtius, Carl Vossler, and Hugo Friedrich. He received his doctorate in 1936 with a doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare’s images, and his post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) with a study of Geoffrey Chaucer. After a short period as Lecturer for literary history at the University of Cologne, he moved to the University of Kiel. From 1946 until 1974, he was chair of English at the University of Munich. In 1953, he was Visiting Professor at Columbia University; in 1964, Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. In 1964, Clemen founded the Munich Shakespeare Library, one of the major collections of scholarship on William Shakespeare outside Britain. Scholarly achievementsClemen's reputation rests in large part on his monograph on Shakespeare’s Imagery, a revised English translation of his doctoral dissertation published in 1951 with Methuen Publishing in London. However, the English translation of his Habilitation on Geoffrey Chaucer’s early poetry was of similar importance. Until Clemen's study, Chaucer's The House of Fame, The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and Anelida and Arcite had not been considered to be at the same level of creative mastery as the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. This changed because Clemen could demonstrate that the Middle English author was as independent of his French and Classical sources in his early as in his later poetry.[1] Select publications
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References1. ^Richard Utz, "Clemen Among the Chaucerians -- Toward a History of Reception of Der junge Chaucer," in: Wolfgang Clemen im Kontext seiner Zeit, ed. Ina Schabert, Andreas Höfele, and Manfred Pfister (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), pp. 71-80. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Clemen, Wolfgang}} 15 : 1909 births|1990 deaths|German academics|German medievalists|Shakespearean scholars|Chaucer scholars|People from Bonn|Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art|Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)|20th-century German historians|20th-century German poets|20th-century German dramatists and playwrights|German male dramatists and playwrights|German male poets|Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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