Please note that the content of this book mainly consists of articles that are available online from Wikipedia or other free sources. Achim Hölter, born on July 8, 1960, in Dülken, is a German comparatist and literary scholar. After studying German studies, medieval studies, philosophy, general literary studies, and Romance studies in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf, Hölter served as an assistant at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 1988, he earned his doctorate with the dissertation: Ludwig Tieck. Literary History as Poetry. In 1993, he completed his habilitation with the work The Invalids. The Forgotten History of War Cripples in European Literature up to the 19th Century. From 1994 to 1995, he held a temporary professorship at the Ruhr University Bochum, and from 1995 to 1997, he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the University of Bonn.