Friedrich Wolfzettel

Friedrich Wolfzettel studied Romance, English and Slavic philology at Heidelberg University, where he completed his doctorate in 1969 with a dissertation on Michel Butor’s collective novel. After working as a researcher at the University of Giessen, he completed his habilitation in 1973. From 1972 to 1988 he taught Romance literary studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen, and from 1988 to 2007 he was Professor of Romance Philology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. His research focused on the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, travel literature, cultural identity, aesthetics, the Enlightenment novel and Romance literatures from Romanticism onward. He chaired the German section of the Société Internationale Arthurienne for many years and served as the society’s president from 1990 to 1993.