Leonore Krenzlin | |
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Born | 1934 Leipzig, Germany |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Academic |
Years active | 1959–present |
Spouse | Dieter Schiller (in 1979) |
Parent | Herbert Zschelletzschky (1902-1986) |
Leonore Krenzlin (born 1934, in Leipzig, Germany) studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin beginning in 1953. [1] From 1970 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute of Literary History of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic. [2] In 1978, she completed her Doctorate of Philosophy in German Studies with a dissertation on Hermann Kant [3] and has become an expert on German literary figures. [4] Her work on Kant was first published in 1980 and has since been republished three times. [1] Among other literary figures, Krenzlin has written about Friedrich Griese, Willy Sachse and Ernst Wiechert, as well as the migration issues which occurred in 1945. [3]
Since 1979, she has been married to the fellow German scholar, Dieter Schiller.
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