Grimm, Reinhold

Reinhold Grimm is Distinguished Professor emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Riverside and a member of the International P.E.N. Club. Born in Nuremberg in 1931, he studied at the University of Colorado and at Erlangen University, where he received his Dr. phil. in 1956. Grimm taught there and at Frankfurt University, then, after emigrating to the United States in 1967, at the Universities of Wisconsin (as A. Hohlfield Professor of German and, subsequently, as Vilas Research Professor of Comparative Literature and German) and of California, retiring in...