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Stefan Mittnik, Professor of Financial
Econometrics at the University of Munich
since April 2003, has been named 2004 Distinguished
Chair in German Studies. When
he arrives at Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri, to begin his year of research
and teaching, it will be a homecoming of sorts,
Mittnik received his Ph.D. in economics there
in 1987.
In addition to teaching, Mittnik is also
Research Director at the Ifo Institute of Eco-
nomic Research in Munich and heads the
financial management research program at the
Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt. Prior
to that, from 1987 to 1994, he was first
Assistant and later Associate Professor of Economics
at the State University of New York in
Stony Brook. From 1994 to 2003 he held the
Chair of Statistics and Empirical Economics
and was Director of the Institute of Statistics
and Econometrics at the University of Kiel in
Germany. He held visiting positions at the
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Stefan Mittnik Named 2004 Distinguished Chair in German Studies
Fulbright Alumnus Lützeler Wins Prestigious Goethe
Medal For His Promotion of the German Language
On March 22, 2004, the Goethe Institute
honored Fulbright Alumnus Paul Michael
Lützeler with its prestigious Goethe Medal
for his encouragement of the study of the
German language in the United States.
The Goethe Medal, awarded in Leipzig
every year on the anniversary of the death of
the German writer Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, was first presented in 1954. It goes
to men and women who have shown extraordinary
service in the promotion of the German
language and international cultural
exchange abroad.
Lützeler, a 1968 student grantee from the
Free University Berlin to Indiana University,
is now Director of the Max Kade Center for
Contemporary German Literature at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri. He
founded the Center in 1984 to provide a
forum for visiting authors, critics, and scholars
as well as to grant stipends and organize
symposia. According to the Goethe Institute,
“As Director of the Max Kade Center [Lützeler]
has succeeded in building up a center for
contemporary German literature in the USA
unparalleled in vitality and radiating power.”
Besides teaching German and European
studies, and comparative literature, Lützeler
has established student and faculty exchange
programs with several German universities.
He was the Director of the European Studies
Program at Washington University for 20
University of Lancaster in England, the Technical
University Vienna and the Free University
of Amsterdam.
Mittnik obtained an engineering degree
from the Technical University Berlin in 1981
and in 1982 a master’s degree in development
economics from the University of Sussex in
England.
His research focuses on empirical economics
and finance and covers both applied
and methodological issues.
years and is the author of
ten books on German
and European literature
and cultural history. Dr. Lützeler during the
award ceremony in Leipzig
He has received
many awards including the Alexander von
Humboldt Prize, the Austrian Cross of Honor
in Arts and Science First Class, and the
German Cross of Merit First Class.
Lützeler was introduced at the ceremony
by Franziska Augstein a Hamburg journalist
currently with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Five
others were honored as well: Mohan Agashe,
Anatoli A. Michailow, Sergio Paulo Rouanet,
and Imre Kertész, 2002 Nobel Prize winner
in literature.
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