Emil Staiger

Emil Staiger (8 February 1908 – 28 April 1987) was a Swiss historian, writer, Germanist and Professor of German Studies at the University of Zurich.^[1]

1962

Gottfried-Keller Prize

Nominated for the , 1964^[8]

Nobel Prize in Literature

for scientific prose, 1966

Sigmund Freud Prize

Zürich Literature Prize, 1966

for science and the arts, 1966

Pour le Mérite

Corresponding member of the , 1971^[9]

British Academy

1975

Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art

in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

Staiger, Emil, entry

at Yale