Guy Stern

Guy Stern is Distinguished Professor of German at Wayne State University, Detroit. Born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1922, he emigrated to the United States in 1937. He resumed his university education in 1946 and earned degrees from Hofstra University and Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1953. During his more than 50 years of teaching he held professorships at various universities in the US and Germany. He founded (with Gottfried Merkel) the Lessing Society and the Lessing Yearbook; he...See more

Guy Stern is Distinguished Professor of German at Wayne State University, Detroit. Born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1922, he emigrated to the United States in 1937. He resumed his university education in 1946 and earned degrees from Hofstra University and Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1953. During his more than 50 years of teaching he held professorships at various universities in the US and Germany. He founded (with Gottfried Merkel) the Lessing Society and the Lessing Yearbook; he is also an officer of the Leo Baeck Institute and the Kurt Weill Foundation. A specialist in German and Comparative Literature mainly of the 18th and 20th centuries he authored numerous studies in both fields. He has received numerous awards, among them the Goethe Medal, the Groe Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic, and an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University. A festschrift was dedicated to him in 1987. See less