Walther Killy

Walther Killy
Born(1917-08-26)26 August 1917
Died28 December 1995(1995-12-28) (aged 78)
Kampen, Germany
Occupations
  • Literary scholar
  • Editor
Organizations
AwardsSigmund Freud Prize

Walther Killy (26 August 1917 – 28 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, as founding rector of the University of Bremen, as visiting scholar at the University of California and Harvard University, and at the University of Bern. He became known as editor of literary encyclopedias, the Killy Literaturlexikon and the Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie.