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Kurt Mueller-Vollmer | |
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 Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, c. 2010 | |
| Born | June 28, 1928 |
| Died | August 3, 2019 (aged 91) |
| Education | Brown University (M.A. 1955) Stanford University (PhD, 1962) |
| School | Phenomenology * Continental philosophy * Hermeneutics |
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Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (June 28, 1928 – August 3, 2019), born in Hamburg, Germany, was an American philosopher and professor of German Studies and Humanities at Stanford University.[1] Mueller-Vollmer studied in Germany, France, Spain and the United States. He held a master's degree in American Studies from Brown University, and a doctorate in German Studies and Humanities from Stanford University, where he taught for over 40 years.[2] His major publications concentrate in the areas of Literary Criticism, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Romantic and Comparative Literature, language theory, cultural transfer and translation studies.[3] Mueller-Vollmer made noteworthy scholarly contributions elucidating the theoretical and empirical linguistic work of Wilhelm von Humboldt, including the discovery of numerous manuscripts previously thought lost or otherwise unknown containing Humboldt's empirical studies of numerous languages from around the world.[4]
Mueller-Vollmer was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000. He was also bestowed with the Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Foundation Award presented in a public ceremony at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, on June 22, 2007.
- ^ https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=193835038& Archived 2021-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; Stanford German studies scholar Kurt Mueller-Vollmer dies at 91, Stanford News, Melissa de Witte, September 11, 2019: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/09/11/stanford-german-studies-scholar-kurt-mueller-vollmer-dies-91/ Archived 2021-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Mueller-Voller 2015 Curriculum Vitae, [1]; [2] Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, The Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition from the Enlightenment to the Present. Edited with an Introduction and Notes. (New York: Continuum/Crossroad, 1985. XI, 380 pp.), jacket notes; Curriculum Vitae, [3]; [4] Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ see: Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachwissenschaft. Ein kommentiertes Verzeichnis des sprachwissenschaftlichen Nachlasses. Mit einer Einleitung und zwei Anhängen (Paderborn, München, Wien, Zürich: F. Schöning Verlag, 1993)