College of Humanities People

Harry Vredeveld, Professor Emeritus

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures: http://germanic.osu.edu/

Office Information
498 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: vredeveld.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-6985
Fax: 614-292-8510

General Background:

Harry Vredeveld, PhD (Princeton University, 1970). Professor.

Specializations: Neo-Latin poetry in northern Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries; Helius Eobanus Hessus, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Sebastian Brant.

Books: Helius Eobanus Hessus, Dichtungen der Jahre 1528-1537 (1991); with Clarence H. Miller: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Poems, Collected Works of Erasmus, vols. 85 and 86 (1993); Erasmi carmina, Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, I-7 (1995). The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus, vol. 1 (2004); vol. 2 (2008); vol. 3 (in press).

Articles on: Ludwig Tieck; Helius Eobanus Hessus; Erasmus of Rotterdam; Sebastian Brant; Baptista Mantuanus; Anthologia Latina.

Internet editions. See: http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camena/AUTBIO/hessus.html

Major courses taught: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque literature; stylistics and rhetoric; Middle High German; history of the language; Dutch for reading knowledge.