Karlheinz Stierle#
| Membership Number: | 481 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Professor Emeritus
- 1988 Chair of Romance Studies and General and Comparative Literature at the University of Konstanz
- 1969 - 1988 Professor of Romance Studies and General and Comparative Literature at the Ruhr University Bochum
- Calls to several universities declined (University of Bielefeld, University of Amsterdam, Free University of Berlin)
Fields of Scholarship
- History of French and Italian literature
- Historic semantics
- Systematic literary studies based on the theory of language
- Dante and Petrarch between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Full member of the Academia Europaea
- 1995 Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2003 - 2005 Chairman of the German Association of Romanists
- 2003 - 2009 Membre du comité international scientifique et stratégique du Collège de France
- 2003 - 2014 Member of the Prize Committee of the Balzan Foundation
- 2005 Elected Corresponding Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France
- 2008 Appointment as honorary professor at Saarland University
- 2009 Socio straniero in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2010 Appointed honorary member of the Società dantesca italiana
- 2014 Appointed Commendatore dell'A ordine "Al merito della Repubblica Italiana"
- 2016 Appointed Commander of the Order of the Palmes Académiques
