Wilhelm Heizmann

Wilhelm Heizmann
Born	(1953-09-05)5 September 1953 Eggenfelden,Germany
Nationality	German
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Munich University of Vienna University of Göttingen
Academic advisors	Kurt Schier
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic philology
Institutions	University of Vienna University of Munich University of Göttingen
Main interests	Early Germanic culture

Wilhelm Heizmann(born 5 September 1953) is a German philologist who is Professor and Chair of the Institute forNordic Philologyat theUniversity of Munich.Heizmann specializes inGermanic studies,and is a co-editor of theGermanische Altertumskunde Online.

Biography

Wilhelm Heizmann was born inEggenfelden,Germany on 5 September 1953. From 1974 to 1981, Heizmann studiedGerman philology,ancient and medieval history,ethnology,Nordic philologyandGermanic Antiquityat theUniversity of Munichand theUniversity of Vienna.He received hisMAat Munich. From 1981 to 1982, Heizmann studied at theUniversity of Oxfordand theUniversity of London.With funding from theGerman Academic Exchange Service,Heizmann subsequently stayed for two years as a researcher at theArnamagnæan Instituteat theUniversity of Copenhagen,during which he also conducted research atReykjavík University.He held a scholarship at theStudienstiftungfrom 1983 to 1984. From 1984 to 1993, Heizmann was a research assistant at theScandinavianSeminar at theUniversity of Göttingen.He earned aPhDat the University of Munich in 1987, and completed hishabilitationat Göttingen in 1994.

Since 1994, Heizmann taught at the University of Göttingen, where he was appointed an associate professor in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, Heizman was a visiting professor at the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Vienna. Since 2002, Heizmann has been Professor and Chair of the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich. He was appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of theBrothers Grimm Societyin 2002, an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen in 2004, and a corresponding member of theGöttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanitiesin 2009.

Heizmann specializes inGermanic studies.He researches and teachesGermanic paganismandmythology(includingOld Norse religionandmythology),Old Norse literature,runology,as well as the scientific works of theBrothers Grimm.He is Co-Editor ofGermanische Altertumskunde Online.

Selected works

• Wörterbuch der Pflanzennamen im Altwestnordischen,1993
• Bilddenkmäler zur germanischen Götter- und Heldensage,2015

See also

• Heinrich Beck
• Hermann Reichert
• Helmut Birkhan
• Rudolf Simek
• Robert Nedoma

Sources

• "Wilhelm Heizmann".University of Göttingen.RetrievedSeptember 6,2020.