Professor in musicology named honorary doctor

2019-11-05

World leading Bach scientist named honorary doctor at the Faculty of Arts

German Professor Peter Wollny, a world leading scholar on Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons and director of Bach-Archiv Leipzig, has been named one of two honorary doctors at the Faculty of Arts, as proposed by the Department of Musicology. The installation of the honorary doctors will take place in the University building January 31, 2020. The doctors will give public lectures in conjunction with the installation.

See poster for Prof. Wollny's public lecture in Humanistiska Teatern, Campus Engelska Parken to be held January, 29: Johann Sebastian Bach and the emergence of a European style around 1730