Curriculum Vitae:

Born 11 June 1959 in Frankfurt-am-Main, son of Dr. jur. Otfried Lieberknecht and Christel Lieberknecht née Lehnertz, grown up in Düsseldorf, graduate of Görres Gymnasium (1977), student of Romance and German philology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (winter 1977), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1977-79) and Freie Universität Berlin (1979-87), M.A. (French and German, FU Berlin, 1987), Ph.D. summa cum laude (Romance philology, FU Berlin, 1995), assistant in teaching and research to Chair Prof. Dr. Horst Ochse, Institut für Romanische Philology, FU Berlin (1988-1993), coordinator of internet services with Springer Verlag (Springer Science) in Heidelberg (1999), online editor and product manager with Amazon.de in Munich (2000-2002), product manager with Vizzavi / Vodafone D2 GmbH in Düsseldorf (2002-2011). Four children Markus (b. 1989), Ruth (b. 1994), Grete (b. 2003) and Lore (b. 2006). Living in Münster.

Research interests:

Medieval Studies: medieval literature (Italian, French, Occitan, German, Latin) and Biblical exegesis, Occidental sources on Mohammed and Islam, history of heresy and inquisition in Upper Italy, history of sciences. - Renaissance Studies: Petrarchism in Italy and France, theories of language and history in the Italian «Questione della lingua» and their reception in France.

Publications:

• Allegorese und Philologie: Überlegungen zum mehrfachen Schriftsinn in Dantes «Commedia», Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999 (= Text und Kontext, 14), ix + 256 pp., ISBN 3-515-07326-4
  
  
  • Louise Gnädinger, Vox romanica 62 (2003), p.232
  • Patrizia De Corso, Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 590 (2003), p.307
  • David Nelting, Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 77 (2002), p.197-201
  • Brenda Deen Schildgen, Speculum 77.2 (April 2002), p.579-589 (PDF 244 Kb)
  • Joachim Leeker, Romanische Forschungen 113.3 (2001), p.555-557 (PDF 669 Kb)
    
    
• Zur Rezeption der arabischen Apologie des Pseudo-Kindi in der lateinischen Mohammedliteratur des Mittelalters, in: *De orbis Hispani linguis litteris historia moribus. Festschrift für Dietrich Briesemeister zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Axel Schönberger and Klaus Zimmermann, Frankfurt a.M.: Domus Editoria Europaea, 1994, vol. I, p.523-538
  
  
• «L'avvocato de' tempi cristiani» (Par. 10.118-120): Ambrose of Milan Reconsidered, in: Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, 17 September 1996
  
  

Congress papers and lectures:

• Dante's Historical Arithmetics: The Numbers Six and Twenty-eight as "numeri perfecti secundum partium aggregationem" in Inferno XXVIII. Paper given at the 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, 8-11 May 1997, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo)
  
  
• Death and Retribution: Medieval Visions of the End of Judas the Traitor. Invited lecture, given at Saint John's University (Collegeville), 13 May 1997, sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, The CSB/SJU Honors Program, the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, and the SJU School of Theology.
  
  
• A Medieval View of Islam: Dante's Encounter with Mohammed in Inferno XXVIII. Invited lecture, given at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), 14 May 1997, sponsored by the Department of French and Italian; at the University of California-Berkeley, 20 May 1997, sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies and the Townsend Center for the Humanities Working Group; at the University of Washington (Seattle), 22 May 1997, sponsored by the Department of English, the Committee for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Division of French and Italian Studies.
  
  
• "Vollkommene Zahlen" in der Arithmetik, geistlichen Exegese und literarischen Zahlenkomposition des Mittelalters. Invited lecture, University of Kaiserslautern, Special Event «Geschichte der Mathematik»,18 February 1998, sponsored by the Department of Mathematics
  
  
• Strafe und Zeichen: zum Problem der Wiedervergeltung im 28. Gesang von Dantes Inferno. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Dante-Gesellschaft, Magedburg, 9 October 1999

• Allegorie und Zahlenallegorese, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Institut für Italienische Philologie, 27 July 2000
  
  

• Various interventi in: *Dante: mito e poesia. Atti del secondo seminario dantesco internazionale (Monte Verità, Ascona, 23-27 giugno 1997), ed. by Michelangelo Picone and Tatiana Crivelli, Florence: Cesati, 1999, p. 65 (Jean Pépin), p. 155 (Zygmunt Baranski), p. 179 (Lino Pertile), p. 202 (Karlheinz Stierle), p. 230s. (Piero Boitani), p. 407ss. (Christopher Kleinhenz, Alison Cornish); p. 430, p. 432 (Tavola Rotonda)

Interviews

• Zeitreisen 2000 - Bücher des Jahrtausends: Dante Alighieri, Die Göttliche Komödie, by Maike Albath, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, 27 March 1999

• Dante Alighieri - Grenzgänger zwischen den Jahrhunderten, interview with Ulrich Prill, for Amazon.de - Geist & Wissen, September 2000
  
  

Other

Websites

• Personal Website (1999-):

  http://www.lieberknecht.de

• Editor of the Homepage for Dante Studies, see Michael J. Hemment, "Dante.com: A Critical Guide to Dante Resources on the Internet", Dante Studies 116, 1998, p.127-140. This Homepage, which was begun in 1995 and upgraded until 2000, but has now come out of date, was an index of electronic resources of interest for Dante Studies, including also general resources for Romance Philology and Medieval Studies:

  http://www.lieberknecht.de/dante/welcome.html

• Parts of the Homepage for Dante Studies were associated with the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (general editor: Carolyn P. Schriber, Rhodes College), under the title Dante Alighieri: A Guide to Online Resources (since August 1996):

  http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/lit/italian/danindex.html

• List-owner (since 1996), together with George Ferzoco (University of Leicester), of Italian-Studies, an international mailing list for the study of Italian literature, language and culture

  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html

• List-owner (since 1998), together with George Ferzoco (University of Leicester), Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol) and John Arnold (University of East Anglia, Norwich), of Medieval-Religion, an international mailing list for the study of medieval religion and culture:

  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html

• Calendar Tools (1999), a JavaScript program for historical calendar conversions:

  http://www.lieberknecht.de/~prg/calendar.htm

Contact:

Otfried Lieberknecht
Lütkenbecker Weg 103
D-48155 Münster, Germany
tel +49 (0)251/287 99 111
fax +49 (0)251/287 99 109
mob +49 (0)1573 79 79 329
otfried@lieberknecht.de