Roland Hagenbüchle


Roland Hagenbüchle was a scholar for American Studies and cultural philosopher.

Life, teaching and research

Hagenbüchle studied first architecture at the ETH Zurich and completed a two-year internship in Basel, then linguistics, English and German at the University of Zurich. After studying in Cambridge and Nancy he finished his PH.D. in Zurich 1964. From 1970 to 1972 Hagenbüchle was doctoral fellow at Yale University. In 1974 he finished the habilitation in Zürich.
After visiting professorships in Bern, Göttingen and at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, he was appointed in 1975 to a professorship at the newly opened University of Wuppertal. In 1980, Hagenbüchle simultaneously got two calls to the University of Marburg and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. Hagenbüchle was from 1980 to 1996 Chair of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Roland Hagenbüchle is an internationally renowned interpreter of the works of American poet Emily Dickinson. After the retirement in 1996 Hagenbüchle moved his research interests to the broader field of cultural philosophy, especially on interculturality, the problematic relationship between the different cultures and the critique of Western thought.

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