12 Facts About Wolfgang Mieder

Wolfgang Mieder is a graduate of Olivet College, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University.

Wolfgang Mieder has been a guest speaker at the University of Freiburg in Germany, the country where he was born.

Wolfgang Mieder is most well known as a scholar of paremiology, the study of proverbs, Alan Dundes labeling him "Magister Proverbium, paremiologist without peer".

Wolfgang Mieder produced many bibliographies, both articles and volumes, on several topics within paremiology.

Wolfgang Mieder was editor of the Supplement Series to Proverbium, a series of book on various facets of proverb studies.

Wolfgang Mieder has published extensively in English and in German.

Wolfgang Mieder is the creator of the term anti-proverb, proverbs that are twisted from their original forms.

Wolfgang Mieder's work includes contributions to paremiography, the collecting and writing of proverbs.

Wolfgang Mieder has published a number of collections of proverbs, both topical and international.

Wolfgang Mieder was honored by three festschrift publications on his 60th birthday, and another for his 65th birthday.

Wolfgang Mieder has been recognized by biographical publications that focused on his scholarship.

Wolfgang Mieder's work has become the topic of study for other scholars.