Dirk Niefanger

Dirk Niefanger (born 1960) is a literary scholar and professor of modern German literature at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research includes Baroque literature. His publications include „Geschichtsdrama der Frühen Neuzeit. 1495–1773“ (2005), „Lessings »Schrifften«“ (2015), and the volumes „Lessing und das Judentum. Lektüren, Dialoge, Kontroversen“ (2015 and 2021), which he co-edited.