- Date Of Birth: June 22, 1934
- Date Of Death: November 14, 2017
- State: Connecticut
NEW HAVEN – Ingeborg Glier, 83, Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, died peacefully on November 14, 2017 in the Connecticut Hospice after a long illness.
Ingeborg was born June 22, 1934 in Dresden, Germany, to the late Dr. Erich and Gertrud Glier. The family was bombed out during the war and in 1947 fled the Soviet Zone to settle in Memmingen, Bavaria, where Ingeborg grew up. She began to study at the University of Munich in 1952, but in 1954 she received a stipend to an experimental school, St. Catherine’s in Windsor Great Park, England, and in 1955 she won a Foreign Fellowship to Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. She received her doctorate from Munich in 1958 with a dissertation on the English playwright John Webster, but then turned to medieval German love poetry, of which she made important studies. With the late professor Michael Curschmann of Princeton University, she co-edited a three-volume anthology of German medieval literature. She also edited and updated a medieval volume in a standard history of German literature as well as a venerable guide to German metrics, which made her well-known among all German students of literature.
