Arnulf Krause (born 27 November 1955) is a German philologist who specializes in

Germanic studies Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary te ...

Biography

Arnulf Krause was born in

Zell im Wiesental Zell im Wiesental (, ) is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 26 km northeast of Basel, and 32 km south of Freiburg. The town is famous for being ...

, Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

in 1989. He is a professor of

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

language and

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

at the University of Bonn, where he also lectures in

. Krause specializes in

early Germanic literature Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. The Germanic culture started to exist in the Jastorf culture located along the central part of the Elbe River in central Germany. From there it spread north to the ocean, ...

and

religion Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...

. He is the author of numerous books about

Germanic peoples The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who lived in Northern Europe in Classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In modern scholarship, they typically include not only the Roman-era ''Germani'' who lived in both ''Germania'' and parts of ...

Celts The Celts ( , see Names of the Celts#Pronunciation, pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples ( ) were a collection of Indo-European languages, Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the apoge ...

and

Vikings Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9� ...

Selected works

Monographs

* ''Die Dichtung des Eyvindr Skáldaspillir.'' Literaturverlag Norden Rheinhardt, Leverkusen 1990, (= Dissertation). * ''Die Geschichte der Germanen.'' Campus, Frankfurt/Main 2002, . * ''Die Welt der Kelten. Geschichte und Mythos eines rätselhaften Volkes.'' Campus, Frankfurt/Main 2004, . * ''Die Welt der Wikinger.'' Campus, Frankfurt/Main 2006, . * ''Europa im Mittelalter. Wie die Zeit der Kreuzzüge unsere moderne Gesellschaft prägt.'' Campus, Frankfurt/Main 2008, . * ''Von Göttern und Helden. Die mythische Welt der Kelten, Germanen und Wikinger.'' Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, . * ''Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie und Heldensage.'' Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, . * ''Die wirkliche Mittelerde. Tolkiens Mythologie und ihre Wurzeln im Mittelalter.'' Theiss, Stuttgart 2012, . * ''Der Kampf um Freiheit. Die Napoleonischen Freiheitskriege in Deutschland''. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, . * ''Runen. Geschichte – Gebrauch – Bedeutung.'' Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2017,

Translations

* ''Die Edda des Snorri Sturluson.'' Ausgewählt, übersetzt und kommentiert von Arnulf Krause. Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, . * ''Die Heldenlieder der Älteren Edda.'' Übersetzt, kommentiert und herausgegeben von Arnulf Krause. Reclam, Stuttgart 2001, . * ''Die Götter- und Heldenlieder der älteren Edda.'' Übersetzt, kommentiert und herausgegeben von Arnulf Krause. Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, . * ''Die Götterlieder der Älteren Edda.'' Übersetzt, kommentiert und herausgegeben von Arnulf Krause. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006, . * ''Die Weisheit der Wikinger.'' Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2011, .

Sources

* ''Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 2012.'' (24. Ausgabe). De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, . (Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften)

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