Wolfgang Ruf

Wolfgang Ruf (b. 29 August 1941, Radolfzell) is a German musicologist. Ruf earned his doctorate from University Of Freiburg in 1974 and worked as a research assistant for Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. He was habilitated in 1984 and served as a professor of musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (1985 to 1994) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (1994 to 2006). He was the President of the international Georg Friedrich Handel Society (GFHG) at Händel-Haus between 1995 and 2009.