Martin Staehelin
Martin Staehelin (born 25 September 1937) is a Swiss musicologist and university lecturer. Life. Born in Basel, Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute. In 1967 he received his doctorate in musicology and ancient languages as minor subjects. After his Zurich habilitation on the composer Heinrich Isaac, Staehelin first became director of the Beethoven Archive and Beethoven House in Bonn before being appointed professor of musicology at the University of Göttingen in 1983. Since 1987 he has been a full member of the philological-historical class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In  2013 he gave the laudation for the award of the Lichtenberg Medal to Joshua Rifkin. In 1993 he was appointed honorary director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen. Since that same year he has been a member of the Academia Europaea in London and since 1998 member of the advisory board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin.