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Wolfgang Mieder
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1944
Wolfgang Mieder is a retired professor of German and folklore who taught for 50 years at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and Michigan State University (PhD). He has been a guest speaker at the University of Freiburg in Germany, the country where he was born.
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1944
Wolfgang Mieder is a retired professor of German and folklore who taught for 50 years at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont. He is a graduate of Olivet College (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and Michigan State University (PhD). He has been a guest speaker at the University of Freiburg in Germany, the country where he was born.
Wolfgang Mieder is globally recognized as the leading expert in paremiology, the study of proverbs.
Born in Nossen in 1944, he has dedicated his academic career to analyzing the presence of proverbs in literature and culture.
He is the editor of the prestigious journal Proverbium, a fundamental publication for scholars of popular wisdom.
His prolific career includes the authorship of 191 works exploring everything from German to American proverbs.
As a philologist and Germanist, he has transformed the study of traditional sayings into a rigorous academic discipline.
