Gero von Wilpert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gero von Wilpert

German writer

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1933

Place of Birth: Tartu, Livonia Governorate, Sweden

Date of Death: 24-Dec-2009

Profession: writer, university teacher, literary theorist

Nationality: Germany, Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gero von Wilpert (13 March 1933 – 24 December 2009) was a German author, a senior lecturer in German at the University of New South Wales and, from 1980, Professor of German at the University of Sydney.Wilpert was born in Tartu (Dorpat), Estonia.
Like all Baltic Germans, he was forced to leave Estonia after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the takeover of the country by the Soviet Union (1939–40). From 1953 to 1957 he studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he was at times a docent.
He then settled near Stuttgart to work as independent author and lecturer. Wilpert published several editions of an encyclopedia of literary descriptions Sachwörterbuch der Literatur.
He also wrote a comprehensive Lexikon der Weltliteratur [Lexicon of World Literature] and earlier had published his Deutsche Literatur in Bildern [German Literature in Pictures] and a journal on Schiller. He was a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Wilpert died in Sydney.