Max Wehrli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Wehrli

Swiss literary scholar and Germanist (1909-1998)

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1909

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1998

Profession: university teacher, Germanist, literary scholar

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Max Wehrli (17 September 1909 – December 18, 1998) was a Swiss literary scholar and Germanist.
Wehrli studied from 1928 till 1935 Germanic and Greek at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin.
Among his teachers were Emil Ermatinger, Ernst Howald and Nicolai Hartmann.
1936 he wrote his Ph.D.
thesis at the University of Zurich. Since 1953 Max Wehrli was tenured professor for the history of German literature at Zurich.
1955 he was visiting professor at the Columbia University in New York City.