Lawrence J. Ryan (born 1932) is a scholar of German literature. He is an emeritus professor of German from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst^[1] and an honorary professor of German at the University of Tübingen, Germany.^[2]

Biography

Lawrence John Ryan was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1932. He received a first-class honors leaving certificate from North Sydney Boys High School in 1949, receiving first in German for a Lithgow Scholarship. In 1953, he received a Bachelor's from the University of Sydney. He received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1958.

For a number of years, he oversaw the UMASS Baden-Württemberg study abroad program centered in Freiburg, Germany. He also had visiting positions at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and University of Marburg, Germany.

Until his retirement in 1996, he was Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He then began an honorary professorship of German at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

He is best known for his studies of the Romantic German poet, Friedrich Hölderlin.^[3] He has also published and taught on a range of other German authors, including Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Franz Kafka.

Works

• Hölderlins Lehre vom Wechsel der Töne. Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer. 1960
• Friedrich Hölderlin. Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler. 1962
• Hölderlins "Hyperion." Exzentrische Bahn und Dichterberuf. Stuttgart, Metzler. 1965

Awards

• Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship, 1957-1958
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974^[4]

References