Max Wehrli
| Max Wehrli | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 17, 1909 Zurich |
| Died | December 18, 1998 (aged 89) Zurich |
| Fields | German studies |
| Institutions | University of Zurich |
| Alma mater | University of Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Emil Ermatinger |
| Doctoral students | Martin Bircher, Harald Burger, Paul Michel |
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.
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