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Brief profile

Peter Fröhlicher studied roman languages, art history and comparative literature at the Universities of Zurich, Paris-Sorbonne, Siena and Lima. His doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Guillaume Apolinnaire and his postdocotral lecture qualification thesis ("Habilitation") was on the argentinian writer Julio Cortázar. He was guest professor at the Universities of Neuchâtel, São Paulo, Veracruz and Vienna.

Then, from 1985 to 1992, he lectured on Spanish and Latin-American Literature at the Humanities Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ).

From 1991 to 1996 he was Professor for Spanish and French Literature at the University of Konstanz. In 1996 he was nominated as full Professor for new French literature at the University of Zurich. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and boards. 

Peter Fröhlicher was born in 1949 in Zurich.

He is married and father of three children. He became a SSIC-member in 2008.


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