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Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is the main character in a series of short, humorous novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. In the books, Von Igelfeld is: *a "Professor Dr"; *proud, stoic, and unable or unwilling to admit or face failure or imminent disaster in his professional or personal life - which is the basis for the humour in these novels; *a philologist; *the author of a fictional book ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs'' - "the seminal work on Romance philology" and "a lengthy book of some twelve hundred pages"; *proud of his aristocratic German heritage; *an academic at the fictional Institute of Romance Philology in Regensburg, Germany; *a colleague of the other major characters of the book series, Professor Dr Dr (''honoris causa'') Florianus Prinzel and Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer ; *a compound word name in the German language meaning "hedgehog field" - igel=hedgehog, feld=field; *said to be quite tall; *born on May Day, 1 May; *initially a student in Heidelberg, Germany; *second for a duel by his friend Prinzel, which he had arranged, mistakenly, in a drunken discussion; *a doctoral student of Professor Dr Dr Dr Dieter Vogelsang, in Munich, Germany, studying Celtic philology and in particular Early Irish, and completed a field trip to Cork to gather data on its profanity; *a doctoral student (second assistant) of Professor Walter Schöffler-Henschell at the University of Wiesbaden. ==Book series== The books in the series are: *2003 ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs'' *2003 ''The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs'' *2003 ''At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances'' *2011 ''Unusual Uses for Olive Oil'' The books' illustrations are by Iain McIntosh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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