Gerhard Hahn (Germanist)

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Gerhard Hahn, born in 1933 in Aš, Czechoslovakia, is a German scholar of medieval studies. He is a professor emeritus of Medieval German Literature at the University of Regensburg. On a Studienstiftung scholarship, Hahn studied at the University of Munich in German, English, history, philosophy and theology. In 1959 he completed the Staatsexamen and later earned his doctorate summa cum laude, with a thesis on Der Ackermann aus Böhmen. In 1972 he was a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg. In 1973 he joined the University of Regensburg, where he taught until 1999 as a professor of Early German Literature. His research covers the literature of the late Middle Ages and early modern period, the literature of the Reformation (especially Martin Luther), spiritual and ecclesiastical songs from the beginning to the present, minstrelsy, and epigrammatic poetry, including Walther von der Vogelweide.