Wilhelm Heizmann was born on 5 September 1953 and is a German philologist who is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich.
10 Facts About Wilhelm Heizmann
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Wilhelm Heizmann was born in Eggenfelden, Germany on 5 September 1953.
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From 1974 to 1981, Wilhelm Heizmann studied German philology, ancient and medieval history, ethnology, Nordic philology and Germanic Antiquity at the University of Munich and the University of Vienna.
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From 1981 to 1982, Wilhelm Heizmann studied at the University of Oxford and the University of London.
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Wilhelm Heizmann held a scholarship at the Studienstiftung from 1983 to 1984.
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From 1984 to 1993, Wilhelm Heizmann was a research assistant at the Scandinavian Seminar at the University of Gottingen.
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Wilhelm Heizmann earned a PhD at the University of Munich in 1987, and completed his habilitation at Gottingen in 1994.
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Since 1994, Wilhelm Heizmann taught at the University of Gottingen, where he was appointed an associate professor in 1999.
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Since 2002, Wilhelm Heizmann has been Professor and Chair of the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich.
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Wilhelm Heizmann was appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Brothers Grimm Society in 2002, an honorary professor at the University of Gottingen in 2004, and a corresponding member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2009.