Grußwort
Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. Gert Kaiser
Anlässlich der Verleihung des Meyer-Struckmann-Preises durch die Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf im November 2020
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my pleasure to congratulate an outstanding colleague whose books and papers I deeply admire. And as the representative of the Meyer-Struckmann-Foundation I assure you that the members of the board of the foundation are pleased and honored to have you among our laureates.
The foundation is the very generous legacy of a well-known CEO of a German bank, the Trinkaus & Burkhardt Bank located in the Rhein-Ruhr area.
What is noteworthy too: Fritz Meyer-Struckmann dedicated his fortune explicitly the promotion of the "Geisteswissenschaften". He was deeply convinced that this very academic field makes an important contribution to the advancement of society.
I am convinced that our 2020 laureate is a great representative of this noble hope.
Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Gert Kaiser
Rektor der Heinrich Heine-Universität von 1983 bis 2003. Vorsitzender der Meyer-Struckmann-Stiftung. Studium der Germanistik und Romanistik in Heidelberg und München. Promotion (1964) und Habilitation (1970). Ruf auf den Lehrstuhl für Ältere Germanistik in Düsseldorf (1977). Wissen- schaftliche Beiträge und Bücher zur Literatur des hohen und späten Mittel- alters.