Gero von Wilpert

Author Gero von Wilpert was born in 1933 in Dorpat, Estonia. Upon the takeover of Estonia by the Soviet Union, he left the country, as did many other Baltic-Germans. From 1953 to 1957 he studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he was at times a docent. He then settled near Stuttgart to work as independent author and lecturer. Von Wilpert published several editions of an encyclopedia of literary descriptions Sachwörterbuch der Literatur. He also wrote a conprehensive Lexicon of World Literature and earlier had published a German Literature in Illustrations and a Journal on Schiller.