Editing Gero von Wilpert

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'''Gero von Wilpert''' (13 March 1933 – 24 December 2009) was a German author, a senior lecturer in German at the [[University of New South Wales]] and, from 1980, Professor of German at the [[University of Sydney]].<ref>[https://www.welt.de/die-welt/kultur/article5673567/Unverzichtbare-Hilfsmittel-Gero-von-Wilpert-ist-tot.html welt.de "Gero von Wilpert ist tot"] {{in lang|de}}</ref>

==Life and career==
Wilpert was born in [[Tartu]] ([[Dorpat]]), [[Estonia]]. Like all [[Baltic Germans]], he was forced to leave Estonia after the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] and the takeover of the country by the [[Soviet Union]] (1939–40).

From 1953 to 1957 he studied at the [[University of Heidelberg]], where he was at times a [[docent]]. He then settled near [[Stuttgart]] to work as independent author and lecturer.

Wilpert published several editions of an encyclopedia of literary descriptions ''Sachwörterbuch der Literatur''. He also wrote a comprehensive ''Lexikon der Weltliteratur'' [Lexicon of World Literature] and earlier had published his ''Deutsche Literatur in Bildern'' [German Literature in Pictures] and a journal on [[Schiller]].

He was elected a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schulz |first=Gerhard |title=Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009) |url=https://humanities.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AAH-Obit-vonWilpert-2009.pdf |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities}}</ref>

Wilpert died in Sydney.<ref>[http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2009-12/gero-von-wilpert zeit.de "Gero von Wilpert ist tot"] {{in lang|de}}</ref>

== Books==
* ''Sachwörterbuch der Literatur''. Kröner, 1955; 8th revised edition, 2001, {{ISBN|3-520-23108-5}}.<ref>[https://www.publishinghistory.com/kroners-taschenausgabe.html Kröners Taschenausgabe (Alfred Kröner Verlag) – Book Series List (Buchreihe)], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.</ref>
* ''Lexikon der Weltliteratur''. Kröner, 1963; 4th edition, 2004.
* ''Erstausgaben deutscher Dichtung''. Joint author: Adolf Gühring. 1967; 2nd revised edition, 1992, {{ISBN|3-520-80902-8}}.
* ''Moderne Weltliteratur. Die Gegenwartsliteraturen Europas und Amerikas''. Joint author: Ivar Ivask. Kröner, 1972, {{ISBN|3-520-43001-0}}.
* ''Deutsche Literatur in Bildern''. Kröner, 1957; 2nd revised edition, 1975.
* ''Der verlorene Schatten''. Kröner, 1978, {{ISBN|3-520-70101-4}}.
* ''Deutsches Dichterlexikon''. Kröner, 1988, {{ISBN|3-520-28803-6}}.
* ''Die deutsche Gespenstergeschichte''. Kröner, 1994, {{ISBN|3-520-40601-2}}.
* ''Goethe-Lexikon''. Kröner, 1998, {{ISBN|3-520-40701-9}}.
* ''Schiller-Chronik. Sein Leben und Schaffen''. 2000, {{ISBN|3-15-018060-0}}.
* ''Deutschbaltische Literaturgeschichte''. C.H. Beck, München 2005, {{ISBN|3-406-53525-9}}.
* ''Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Goethe''. C.H. Beck, München 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-406-55872-6}}.
* ''Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Schiller''. C.H. Beck, München 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-406-58687-3}}.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* Gerhard Schulz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170220231350/http://humanities.org.au/Portals/0/documents/Fellows/Obituaries/Gerovon%20Wilpert.pdf Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009)], [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]]. Retrieved 7 February 2017.

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