Author
Gero von Wilpert was born in
1933 in
Tartu (Dorpat),
Estonia. Upon the takeover of Estonia by the Soviet Union (
1939 -
1940), he left the country, as did many other Baltic Germans. 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. Von Wilpert published several editions of an encyclopedia of literary descriptions
Sachwörterbuch der Literatur. He also wrote a comprehensive Lexicon of World Literature and earlier had published a German Literature in Illustrations and a Journal on Schiller.
Wilpert, Gero von
Wilpert, Gero von
Wilpert, Gero von
Wilpert, Gero von
Wilpert, Gero von
