Fritz Paul was born in
Nesselwang, Germany on 4 April 1942. After gaining his
abitur in
Kempten in 1962, Paul studied
German and
Nordic philology at
LMU Munich and the
University of Oslo. He received his
Ph.D. in 1968 with a thesis on the Norwegian writer
Henrik Ibsen. From 1968 to 1972, Paul was a research assistant at the Seminar for Nordic Philology and
Germanic Antiquity at LMU Munich, where he completed his
habilitation in Nordic philology in 1972. Paul was subsequently appointed a professor in
Scandinavian studies at the
Ruhr University Bochum. From 1979 to his retirement in 2007, Paul was a professor in Germanic and Nordic philology at the
University of Göttingen. Paul is a specialist in both
Old Norse literature and modern
Scandinavian literature. He is also a fellow of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1994. ==See also==