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Karl Heinz Göller (May 13, 1924 – April 22, 2009) was an eminent German Professor of English Literature. He wrote major contributions on medieval through contemporary English studies with a special focus on Arthurian texts. As founding dean of the College of Neuphilologie at the University of Regensburg (1967-1968), founder and honorary president of the German Medieval Academy (Mediävistenverband), president of the Association of German-speaking professors of English (Anglistenverband; 1973), vice president of the International Arthurian Society (1984), international secretary to the New Chaucer Society (1979-1984), and plenary speaker at the 1983 International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), he helped shape the disciplines of English and Medieval Studies.

Publications

König Arthur in der englischen Literatur des späten Mittelalters (1963).

,ed. The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem (1981).

“The Legend of King Arthur’s Survival and Its Political Impact,” in The Legacy of History, vol. 1, ed. Teresa Bela and Zygmunt Mazur (Krákow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2003), pp. 74-93.

“Nomen atque omen: A Tribute to Rainer Schöwerling,” in The Corvey Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, ed. by Werner Huber (Munich: Fink, 2004), pp. 187- 96.

“The Importance of Nursery Rhymes for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language,” in Papers on Language, Culture and Literature, ed. Wladislaw Witalicz (Krosno: P. Wyzszej Szkoly Zawodowej, 2004), pp. 9-16.

“G. Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, trans. into English by N.H. Kaylor,” in ‘Of Remebraunce the Keye:’ Medieval Literature and Its Impact through the Ages, ed. Uwe Böker (Frankfurt: Lang, 2004), pp. 17-45.

“Thomas More’s Utopia: A New Perspective,” in: ''Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Essays in Honor of Prof. Irena Przemecka'', ed. Grazyna and Andrze Branny (Kraków: Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, 2004), pp. 279-88.

“Krakau – eine Freundschaftserklärung,” in Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe, ed. Christoph Houswitschka (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2005), pp. 13-33. [with Jutta Göller]

“Für und über Rolf Breuer,” in Self-Reflexivity in Literature, ed. Werner Huber, et al. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005), pp. III-VIII.

“The Jesuits’ Theatre in Regensburg,” in ''Comedy and Gender. Essays in Honour of Dieter A. Berger'', ed. Helge Nowak (Heidelberg: Winter, 2007), pp. 15-30.

“Schirmer, Walter Franz,” in Neue Deutsche Biographie, ed. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. 23 (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2007), pp. 8-9.

Sources

Richard Utz, "In Memoriam Karl Heinz Göller (May 13, 1924 – April 22, 2009)," in Perspicuitas 01/11/10 (http://www.uni-due.de/perspicuitas/mitteilungen.shtml; http://anglistenverband.de/goeller.html)