Ullrich Langer | |
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| Born | March 10, 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Renaissance literary and intellectual historian and academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A. in Philosophy M.A. in French Literature PhD in Romance Languages and Literature |
| Alma mater | University of Washington Princeton University |
| Thesis | Rhétorique et intersubjectivité: Les Tragiques d’Agrippa d’Aubigné (1980) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Bryn Mawr College University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Ullrich Langer is an American Renaissance literary and intellectual historian and academic. He is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the College of Letters and Science of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1]
Langer is most known for his contributions to French literature and has worked particularly on Renaissance intellectual history and 16th-century poetry and prose. He has authored and edited numerous books and volumes, including Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne, Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert, Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance and The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne.
- ^ "Langer, Ullrich". Department of French & Italian. November 10, 2020.