Person

Baeumer, Max L.

1917–2008

Evanston/Ill., Diss.; em. Prof. für Germanistik an der Univ. Wisconsin in Madison, USA; Maximilian Lorenz Baeumer, professor emeritus of the Department of German, died on April 10, 2008. He was born in 1917 in Trier, Germany, and studied philosophy, social work, religion, and literature in Trier and in Frankfurt before entering graduate studies in the mid-1950s at Northwestern University, where he completed a PhD degree in German in 1959. He held positions at Bowling Green State University and the University of Kansas, and a Fulbright professorship at the University of Stuttgart, before coming to the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1965. From 1972 to 1987 he was a member of the UW Institute for Research in the Humanities and from 1984 to 1987 a WARF senior distinguished research professor. Upon his retirement in 1987, he moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where he spent the rest of his life.