Ullrich Langer

Ullrich Langer
Born (1954-03-10) March 10, 1954 (age 70)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Renaissance literary and intellectual historian and academic
Academic background
EducationB.A. in Philosophy
M.A. in French Literature
PhD in Romance Languages and Literature
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Princeton University
ThesisRhétorique et intersubjectivité: Les Tragiques d’Agrippa d’Aubigné (1980)
Academic work
InstitutionsBryn 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.

  1. ^ "Langer, Ullrich". Department of French & Italian. November 10, 2020.