© Rajendra Dengle
Professor emeritus of German Studies, Dr. Rajendra Dengle has a long and illustrous career as a university lecturer, scholar, dean and literary expert. Dengle first studied philosophy and German at the University of Pune; in 1979, he received his MA in German literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, where he completed his doctorate in 1990. From 1979 to July 2021, he taught at the Centre of German Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, JNU, with special focus on literary theory, history of German literature, modern German literature, and cultural studies.
Doctoral and postgraduate scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) took him to the universities of Bielefeld, Bonn, Heidelberg, Bayreuth, Wuppertal, and Freiburg. He worked as secretary of the Goethe Society of India from 2004 to 2010 and was responsible for the publication of its yearbook. Dengle has translated numerous publications and literary texts from Marathi into German as well as from German into Marathi.