Willhelm Heizmann

Wilhelm Heizmann, Dr. phil.

Professor and Chair for Nordic Philology (with focus on Medieval Literature) at the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich

Born in 1953 in Eggenfelden/Bavaria.

Applicant and member of the commission for the project Runic writing in the Germanic languages (RuneS); since March 2010 head of the research unit Göttingen.

Academic career:
1974–1981 academic studies in Mediaeval German Philology, Ancient History and Mediaeval History, Ethnology, Nordic Philology and Germanic Antiquity Studies at the Universities of Munich and Vienna. Scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. M.A. degree at the University of Munich. 1981–1982 exchange student at the Universities of Oxford and London. 1982–1984 research at the Arnamagnæansk Institute of the University of Kopenhagen. 1983–1984 Ph.D. scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. 1984–1998 assistant professor at the University of Göttingen. 1987 Ph.D. at the University of Munich. 1994 Habilitation at the University of Göttingen. 1999 adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen. In 2000 and 2001 visiting professor at the University of Vienna (Institute for Germanic studies).
Since 2001 professor for Nordic Philology (with focus on Medieval Literature) at the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich. From August 2002 member of the scientific advisory council of the Brothers Grimm Society. From December 2004 honorary professor at the University of Göttingen. From May 2009 adjunct member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen. From March 2010 supervisor of the research centre Göttingen within the long-term project of the Union of the Academies of Sciences (2010–2025) “Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen – Runic writing in the Germanic languages (RuneS)”.

Selected Publications