11 Facts About Richard Wolfram

Richard Wolfram was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Richard Wolfram was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 16 September 1901.

Since 1920, Wolfram studied Germanistics, Scandinavistics and art history at the University of Vienna.

Richard Wolfram gained his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1926 with a thesis on Ernst Moritz Arndt.

Richard Wolfram completed his habilitation in Germanic studies at the University of Vienna in 1934 under the supervision of Rudolf Much.

Richard Wolfram's thesis was on the comitatus in early Germanic society.

Richard Wolfram lectured at the University of Vienna since 1928, where he in 1939 was appointed an associate professor of Germanic studies.

Richard Wolfram subsequently worked as a freelance scholar, but resumed lecturing at the University of Vienna in 1954, here he was reappointed an associate professor in 1959, and a full professor in 1963.

Richard Wolfram retired in 1972, after which he was elected a Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Richard Wolfram was the recipient of a large number of prestigious awards, including the Knight 1st Class of the Order of Vasa, Commander of the Order of the Polar Star, and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, 1st Class.

Richard Wolfram died in Traismauer, Austria on 30 May 1995.