The son of composer Georg Albrecht first attended the Music Academy in Stuttgart, which he graduated in 1955 with the state exam. He then studied classical philology at Tübingen and Paris and 1959 in Tübingen was Indology and Dr. Phil. doctorate. The habilitation just there 1964th That same year, Albrecht Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg, where he remained until his retirement in 1998 as a professor. 1977/1978 he was also Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam and in 1981 Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton._x000D_

Michael von Albrecht's research focuses on the ancient music of Roman literature and its reception history and comparative literature. His two-volume history of Roman literature, which has been translated into several languages applies equally as a standard work as the master of Roman prose. He also made through translations from Latin, especially Virgil and Ovid, a name._x000D_
Furthermore, of Albrecht since 1984 editor of the sources and studies of music history and the Georg von Albrecht's total output._x000D_
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In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. For his translations of Albrecht in 2004 was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Award for translation.