Peter Buchholz

Peter Buchholz
Peter Buchholz
Born	1941; Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Kiel;
Academic work
Discipline	Philology;
Sub-discipline	Germanic philology;
Institutions	University of South Africa;
Main interests	Early Germanic religion and literature;

Peter Buchholz (born 1941) is a South African philologist who is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Africa. He specializes in Germanic studies.

Biography

Peter Buchholz was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1941. He gained his habilitation in Germanic Philology at the University of Kiel in 1977. Buchholz has taught at the universities of Saarland, Kiel, Berkeley, and Sorbonne. In 1981, Bucholz was appointed Professor at the Department of Modern European Languages at the University of South Africa. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2003. Bucholz has published a large number of scholarly works on Old Norse religion and literature.

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer germanischen Religionsgeschichte, 1966
Bibliographie zur alteuropäischen Religionsgeschichte, 1954-1964
Literatur zu den antiken Rand- und Nachfolgekulturen im außermediterranen Europa unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der nichtchristlichen Religionen, 1967
Schamanistische Züge in der altisländischen Überlieferung, 1968
A Bibliographical Introduction to Mediaeval Scandinavia, 1972
Vorzeitkunde. Mündliches Erzählen und Überliefern im mittelalterlichen Skandinavien nach dem Zeugnis von Fornaldarsaga und eddischer Dichtung, 1980

This article on a linguist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Peter Buchholz
Born	1941 Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality	South African

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Kiel
Academic work
Discipline	Philology
Sub-discipline	Germanic philology
Institutions	University of South Africa
Main interests	Early Germanic religion and literature