Werner Hoffmeister
Werner Hoffmeister, Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature, died suddenly on May 27, 1998, while playing tennis.
He studied at the University of Münster and at Brown, first as a Fulbright Fellow in 1954, and then later as a graduate student, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1962. He taught at Connecticut College for two years and then at Brown for 13 until coming to Dartmouth in 1977. His
areas of interest were German and comparative literature of the 19th and
20th centuries, particularly prose fiction. His publications included studies
of Fontane, Kleist, Grass, Thomas Mann, Musil, and German-American literary
relations.
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