Wolfgang Krause (Linguist)

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Wolfgang Krause (born September 18, 1895 in Steglitz , Teltow district (from 1920 in Berlin), † August 14, 1970 in Göttingen ) was a German linguist . His research interests initially included Celtology and Tocharistics , later Nordic philology and especially runology .

Life

Krause studied Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies in Berlin and Göttingen from 1914 to 1920 . In 1929 he took over the chair for Indo-European linguistics at the University of Königsberg , where he specialized in Old Norse cultural history and especially runic studies. In the course of the 1930s his eyesight deteriorated significantly; after the end of the war he was blind. In 1937 Krause moved to Göttingen and set up an institute for rune research. In 1938 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1943/44 he headed the teaching and research facility for rune and symbolism belonging to the SS organization Ahnenerbe , which he distinguished from a similar institute run by his competitor Helmut Arntz .

Krause was not a party member and remained in office after the end of the war. In 1950 the Nordic Department he headed was merged with the Institute for Runic Studies to form the Scandinavian Seminar and Krause was appointed director of the new facility. At the same time, Krause remained head of the linguistic seminar. In 1963 he retired, after which the personal union of the seminar leaders expired. For his 70th birthday in 1965, Göttingen students organized a torchlight procession in his honor.

Works (selection)

Monographs
  • The word order in the two-part word combinations. Diss. Göttingen 1920.
  • The woman in the language of old Icelandic family history. Habilitation thesis, 1923.
  • The Celts. ( Religious history reader 13) Tübingen 1929.
  • Runic inscriptions in the older Futhark. 2 vols. With Herbert Jankuhn, Göttingen 1966.
  • The Irish people. Its racial and cultural foundations. Goettingen 1940.
  • West Kocharian grammar. Heidelberg 1952.
  • Manual of the Gothic. 3. Edition. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1968.
  • Tocharisches Elementarbuch Volume 1, Grammar. Heidelberg 1960.
  • About the name of the salmon. In: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, philological-historical class, Göttingen 1961, pp. 83-89.
  • The language of the Umordian runic inscriptions. Winter, Heidelberg 1971.
  • Writings on runology and linguistics. Heinrich Beck, Klaus Düwel, Michael Job, Astrid van Nahl (eds.). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Neumann: Wolfgang Krause. In: Karl Arndt u. a. (Ed.): Göttingen scholars. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in portraits and awards 1751–2001. Göttingen 2001, p. 486.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 139.
  3. ↑ Biography of Arntz , 274 kB, p. 3.
  4. ^ Fritz Paul: On the history of Scandinavian studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. A preliminary sketch (1985)
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Steglitz
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1970
Place of death Goettingen