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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDean's Office, Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesJakobi 2, r 116-121 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of History and ArchaeologyJakobi 2 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Estonian and General LinguisticsJakobi 2, IV korrus 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Philosophy and SemioticsJakobi 2, III korrus, ruumid 302-337 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Cultural ResearchÜlikooli 16 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Foreign Languages and CulturesLossi 3 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0School of Theology and Religious StudiesÜlikooli 18 50090 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Viljandi Culture AcademyPosti 1 71004 Viljandi linn, Viljandimaa EST0Professors emeriti, Faculty of Arts and Humanities0Associate Professors emeriti, Faculty of Arts and Humanities0Faculty of Social SciencesDean's Office, Faculty of Social SciencesLossi 36 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of EducationJakobi 5 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Johan Skytte Institute of Political StudiesLossi 36, ruum 301 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0School of Economics and Business AdministrationNarva mnt 18 51009 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of PsychologyNäituse 2 50409 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0School of LawNäituse 20 - 324 50409 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Social StudiesLossi 36 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Narva CollegeRaekoja plats 2 20307 Narva linn, Ida-Virumaa EST0Pärnu CollegeRingi 35 80012 Pärnu linn, Pärnu linn, Pärnumaa EST0Professors emeriti, Faculty of Social Sciences0Associate Professors emeriti, Faculty of Social Sciences0Faculty of MedicineDean's Office, Faculty of MedicineRavila 19 50411 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of Biomedicine and Translational MedicineBiomeedikum, Ravila 19 50411 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of PharmacyNooruse 1 50411 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of DentistryL. Puusepa 1a 50406 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of Clinical MedicineL. Puusepa 8 50406 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of Family Medicine and Public HealthRavila 19 50411 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of Sport Sciences and PhysiotherapyUjula 4 51008 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTProfessors emeriti, Faculty of Medicine0Associate Professors emeriti, Faculty of Medicine0Faculty of Science and TechnologyDean's Office, Faculty of Science and TechnologyVanemuise 46 - 208 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of Computer ScienceNarva mnt 18 51009 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of GenomicsRiia 23b/2 51010 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTEstonian Marine Institute0Institute of PhysicsInstitute of ChemistryRavila 14a 50411 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Mathematics and StatisticsNarva mnt 18 51009 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Institute of Molecular and Cell BiologyRiia 23, 23b - 134 51010 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTTartu ObservatoryObservatooriumi 1 61602 Tõravere alevik, Nõo vald, Tartumaa EST0Institute of TechnologyNooruse 1 50411 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTInstitute of Ecology and Earth SciencesJ. Liivi tn 2 50409 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa ESTProfessors emeriti, Faculty of Science and Technology0Associate Professors emeriti, Faculty of Science and Technology0Institute of BioengineeringArea of Academic SecretaryHuman Resources OfficeUppsala 6, Lossi 36 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Area of Head of FinanceFinance Office0Area of Director of AdministrationInformation Technology Office0Administrative OfficeÜlikooli 17 (III korrus) 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Estates Office0Marketing and Communication OfficeÜlikooli 18, ruumid 102, 104, 209, 210 50090 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Area of RectorRector's Strategy OfficeInternal Audit OfficeArea of Vice Rector for Academic AffairsOffice of Academic AffairsUniversity of Tartu Youth AcademyUppsala 10 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Student Union OfficeÜlikooli 18b 51005 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Centre for Learning and TeachingArea of Vice Rector for ResearchUniversity of Tartu LibraryW. Struve 1 50091 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0Grant OfficeArea of Vice Rector for DevelopmentCentre for Entrepreneurship and InnovationNarva mnt 18 51009 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical GardenVanemuise 46 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0International Cooperation and Protocol Office0University of Tartu MuseumLossi 25 51003 Tartu linn, Tartu linn, Tartumaa EST0
Heinrich Detering
The University of Tartu has conferred the degree of Honorary Doctor of Literary Studies on Professor Heinrich Detering for his outstanding achievements in literary research and his long-term successful cooperation with the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities in forming the new generation of researchers of German studies.
Heinrich Detering was born on 1 November 1959 in Neumünster, Germany. From 1979 to 1988, he studied German philology, theology, Scandinavian studies and philosophy in Göttingen, Heidelberg and Odense. In 1988, he defended his dissertation at the University of Göttingen and habilitated in 1993.
After his studies, Heinrich Detering first worked as a temporary professor for comparative literature at the University of Munich before taking up a full professorship for modern German literature and contemporary Scandinavian literature at Kiel University in 1995. In 2005, he was elected professor of modern German literature and comparative literature at the University of Göttingen.
Detering has held visiting professorships at many universities, including the University of California, Irvine, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Colorado Boulder (USA), Aarhus University and Odense University (Denmark), the University of Bergen and the University of Trondheim (Norway). Since 2010, he holds a continuous visiting professorship at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, China. He is Honorary Doctor at Aarhus University.
Heinrich Detering is one of the most renowned German literary scholars and is also known as a literary critic, translator and poet. He is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature (2011–2017 President of the Academy) as well as the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He has been awarded numerous scientific prizes, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious scientific award in Germany. He was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog.
Professor Detering's research focuses on the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Storm, Thomas Mann and Bertold Brecht. He has also researched the works of Hans Christian Andersen and the poet and Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan. He is particularly interested in the relationship between literature and ecology as well as the border areas between literature, theology and the history of religion.
Detering has published more than 250 scientific papers, including 24 monographs. He has authored eight volumes of poetry and 14 translated works. His poems, essays and translations have been awarded various literary prizes, including the Julius Campe Prize, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Gleim Prize for Literature.
Heinrich Detering has a long-standing cooperation relationship with scholars of German studies and comparative literature at the University of Tartu. He has been a frequent guest at the university for about twenty years, both at seminars and lectures and as a conference speaker.
From 2008 to 2021, with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he coordinated a cooperation programme between the German studies institutes of Tartu and Göttingen, which over the last three years focused on the promotion of doctoral students and young researchers. In cooperation with the University of Göttingen, six interdisciplinary German studies conferences have been organised in Tartu.
Heinrich Detering's activities and influence in Estonia have not been limited to the University of Tartu. He is a great friend of Estonian literature and has done a lot to strengthen Estonian-German literary contacts. As President of the German Academy for Language and Literature, he organised the Academy's Spring Conference in Tartu in May 2013, which brought over 80 German writers and literary scholars to Estonia.
Heinrich Detering has actively contributed to the development of scientific and literary contacts between Estonia and Germany for more than 20 years. He has made a significant contribution to the development of the University of Tartu Department of German Studies and the development of the new generation of scholars.