Roger Cole Paulin (born 1937) is a scholar of German literature and culture.
Paulin was born in New Zealand, where he took his first degree in German and French,[2] before researching for and being awarded a Dr. phil.
Alongside more than 85 articles and 11 edited and co-edited volumes[1] on German literary figures ranging from Johann Wolfgang Goethe to Rainer Maria Rilke, he has published (among other single-authored books) seminal monographs on Ludwig Tieck (1985; German translation 1987) and August Wilhelm Schlegel (2016, German translation 2017); a highly regarded study of the development of the novella in nineteenth-century Germany (1985); and a pathbreaking account of the reception of William Shakespeare in Germany from 1682 to 1914 (2003).
Paulin's work is notable for the very significant contribution that it has made to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German and comparative literary studies, both inside and outside of Germany.
at Cambridge in 1987, followed by a Humboldt Prize in 2002, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2011.