David Wellbery

David E. Wellbery, Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2001 as the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor and holds appointments in the Department of Germanic Studies and the Committee on Social Thought. In 2005, Professor Wellbery was awarded the Research Prize (Forschungspreis) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of his scholarly achievement; in 2010 he received the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm-Prize awarded by the DAAD. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Leopoldina), and is a corresponding member of the Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften. In 2010, Wellbery was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Konstanz. In 2012 he was the Leibniz Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.