Frank-Rutger Hausmann (born 5 February 1943) is a German Romanist and historian.
Hausmann was born in Hanover in 1943, the son of the military doctor Hans Hausmann. After graduating from the neo-linguistic Städtisches Gymnasium Gummersbach in 1962, he studied law, Romance languages and literature, history and Medieval Latin Philology in Göttingen and Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1968 under Vito Rocco Giustiniani with a thesis on the Italian humanist and bishop Giovanni Antonio Campano. In 1974, he also completed his habilitation in Freiburg. In 1976 he was appointed to a position as Scientific Council. In 1981 he accepted a call to the RWTH Aachen. In 1992, Hausmann was appointed Professor of Romance literary studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In the 1999/2000 academic year, Hausmann was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. He retired in 2006. [1]
Hausmann's research focuses on French and Italian literature, the history of the humanities and the history of National Socialism. Hausmann is a co-editor of writings on the history of science and universities. He has been awarded numerous academic honours and memberships for his research. In 1997, he became a member of the Akademie gemeinnützige Wissenschaften zu Erfurt and in 2004 a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon in 2000. [2] [3]
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