Richard Brütting was a teacher in Orléans, Saarbrücken, Siegen and Gießen. He is the publisher of the Italien-Lexikon and also works as journalist, translator and author of treaties on German, French and Italian literature, on names in literature, on Italian culture, interculturality, Namen sowie zur Kultur Italiens, zur Interkulturalität, literature didaktics and empirical foreign-language didaktics.
