Victor Lange
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Victor Lange (13 July 1908 — 29 June 1996) was a renowned Germanist, Princeton University academic, and the founding president of the Goethe Society of North America (in which capacity he served from 1980 to 1989).
Born in Leipzig, Germany, he obtained his M.A. degree from the University College of the University of Toronto in 1931, and his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1934 with a short dissertation entitled ‘Die lyrische Anthologie im England des 18. Jahrhunderts (1670–1780)’. He taught at Toronto in the 1930s and, from 1938 onwards, at Cornell University, eventually moving to Princeton University in 1957, where he stayed until his retirement in 1977 as John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages. He was twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1950 and 1966. His most important published work is The Classical Age of German Literature, 1740–1815 (New York, Holmes & Meier, 1982). An exhaustive bibliography of his writings was published posthumously in the Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (a Peter Lang serial), vol. 29 (1997), pp. 14–25.
He died of heart failure on 29 June 1996 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 87.
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