Herbert Deinert, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHerbert Deinert
American academic
Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1930
Date of Death: 04-Aug-2010
Profession: academic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Herbert Deinert
- Herbert Deinert (December 13, 1930 – August 4, 2010) was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of German Studies, Cornell University.
- He was a noted scholar focusing on German literature and intellectual history since the time of Martin Luther.
- His early work centered on the influence of Rilke on music but later focused on the works of Goethe (especially Faust), Hesse, Kafka, Mann, Brecht.
- More recently he has helped to understand the influence of Protestantism on Germany directly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- Writing on the subject, Deinert said: Many forces contributed to the collapse of the GDR as a separate state, the final and most visible was the mass exodus via Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
- The Communist regime resisted change when change was taking place in most of East Germany's neighbors to the east and southeast.
- But an ever increasing number of increasingly restless citizens insisted on it and, not given a chance to change matters by improving the system, effected the most radical change of all: they swept away an unresponsive, cynical and calcified government.
- In this process the role of one institution stands out, that of the Protestant Church...
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