Hubertus Menke

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Hubertus Menke (born August 31, 1941 in Warburg ) is a German philologist and retired professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Menke has made an academic contribution to German research in the northern German and Dutch language areas.

CV and academic background

Hubertus Menke was born as the son of a qualified farmer and later member of the Bundestag Josef Maria Menke (Gut Charlottenhof / Höxter district). After graduating from the Realgymnasium in Hofgeismar in 1963 , he studied German, history and Dutch at the universities of Göttingen, Bonn and Cologne, Löwen and Münster until 1969, completing the master’s and the first state examination in 1969. After completing his doctorate in 1974, followed Activities as a research assistant and counselor at the Universities of Münster and Kiel. 1982 habilitation in Kiel. Since 1983 Menke was a full professor at the University of Kiel.

Activities and honors

From 1992 to 1994 Menke was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Kiel and founding chairman of the Institute for State Research . From 1993 to 2002 he was chairman of the Association for Low German Language Research ; since 2002 he has been the scientific director of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society. He received the Joost van den Vondel Prize for his research . As a reviewer he was u. a. active for the German Research Foundation and the Belgian and Austrian National Fund.

Scientific focus

Menke's scientific merits consist primarily of recording the linguistic history in northern Germany, taking Dutch into account, which he has collected in the form of an atlas . His bibliography Bibliotheca Reinardiana , published in 1992 , which brought together the prints of the Reineke-Fuchs material up to 1800, will be continued as the Bibliotheca Reinardiana II until 2000 as part of a research project .

literature

  • Robert Peters, Horst P. Pütz, Ulrich Weber (eds.): Vulpis Adolatio. Festschrift for Hubertus Menke on his 60th birthday. Winter, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1237-2 ( German Library 11).

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personal data
SURNAME Menke, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Warburg