Rainer Nägele
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Rainer Nägele (August 2, 1943 – May 12, 2022) was an American literary scholar whose research primarily focused on modern German and comparative literature. He was the author of several books, including Reading after Freud: Essays on Goethe, Hölderlin, Habermas, Nietzsche, Brecht, Celan, and Freud. Nägele was the Alfred C. & Martha F. Mohr Professor Emeritus of German Language and Literature at Yale University.
Nägele was born in Triesen, Liechtenstein. He completed his Abitur in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Balzers, Liechtenstein. He studied at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the University of Göttingen and earned his Ph.D. in 1971 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation was titled "Formen der Utopie bei Friedrich Hölderlin".[1] Nägele was an assistant professor of German at the University of Iowa from 1971 to 1973 and an associate professor at Ohio State University from 1973 to 1975 before joining the faculty of the German department at Johns Hopkins University in 1975. He became a full professor in 1979 and continued to teach at Johns Hopkins until 2006. Nägele was the chairman of the German department at Johns Hopkins from 1987 to 1993. He was a professor of German at Yale University from 2006 and held the Mohr Professorship until his retirement in 2016.[2]
Nägele was on the editorial board of the New German Critique, The German Quarterly, Studies in 20th Century Literature, MLN and Comparatio. He advised the editorial board of the Historical Critical Edition of Hölderlin (Frankfurt edition).[3]
He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1988[4] and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Ohio State University in 1990. Nägele was also a visiting professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and University of Hamburg in Germany.[5]
