Frank-Rutger Hausmann

Frank-Rutger Hausmann (born 5 February 1943) is a German Romanist and historian.

After graduating from the neo-linguistic Städtisches Gymnasium Gummersbach in 1962, he studied law, Romance languages and literature, history and Medieval Latin Philology in Göttingen and Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1968 under Vito Rocco Giustiniani with a thesis on the Italian humanist and bishop Giovanni Antonio Campano.

In 1992, Hausmann was appointed Professor of Romance literary studies [de] at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

In the 1999/2000 academic year, Hausmann was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg [de] in Munich.

He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon in 2000.