Gerhard Schulz

Gerhard Schulz (born 1928 in Löbau) is a German scholar of literature and German studies. He studied and earned his doctorate at Leipzig University. After appointments at the universities of Melbourne and Adelaide, he was appointed in 1965 to the newly established chair of German studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 1969 he became professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he has been professor emeritus since 1993. His major publications include the two-volume work “Die deutsche Literatur zwischen Französischer Revolution und Restauration” (1983/1989), “Exotik der Gefühle. Goethe und seine Deutschen” (1998), “Kleist. Eine Biographie” (2007), and “Novalis. Leben und Werk Friedrich von Hardenbergs” (2011).