Honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne for Max Haas
The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cologne has awarded Max Haas, Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Basel, an honorary doctorate.
With the honorary doctorate, the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cologne is recognizing "Haas' special academic and scientific achievements", according to a statement from the University of Basel.
Born in 1943, Max Haas studied musicology, medieval church and dogmatic history and Slavic philology in Basel and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate from the University of Basel in 1970 with a thesis on Byzantine and Slavic notation. Seven years later, he habilitated with studies on the relationship between medieval musicology and scholasticism. At the University of Basel, he was head of the microfilm archive of the musicology department and, from 1982, associate professor of musicology.
In the 1990s, he was a guest lecturer at Bar Ilan University in Israel and at the Graduate Department of the City University of New York in the USA. Until his retirement in 2005, he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Musicology at the University of Basel. His most recent monographs deal with forms of perception and thought in music (2002) and musical thought in the Middle Ages (2005).
