Alfred Rammelmeyer

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Alfred Rammelmeyer (* December 31, 1909 jul. / 13. January  1910 greg. In Moscow ; † 16th March 1995 in Darmstadt ) was a German Slawist and literary scholar .

Rammelmeyer was the son of a German businessman and a Russian woman. After the father's death in 1921, the family fled to Germany, where he passed his Abitur in 1930 in Berlin-Reinickendorf. He then studied Slavic and Romance philology and Protestant theology at the University of Berlin . In 1935 he received his doctorate under Max Vasmer  with the thesis "Studies on the history of the Russian fable of the 18th century". From 1936 to 1937 he worked at the University of Greifswald as a lecturer for Russian, from 1937 to 1945 at the University of Königsberg , where he completed his habilitation in 1943 with a thesis on the Philippians living in East Prussia . In November 1945 he became associate professor for Slavic philology at the University of Kiel , from where he was appointed full professor at the University of Marburg in 1952 . In 1958 he moved from here to the University of Frankfurt , where he taught until his retirement in 1978.

From 1964 Rammelmeyer was a full member of the Scientific Society at the University of Frankfurt. In 1981 he was elected a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, and in 1985 a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In the academic year 1963/64 he was rector of the University of Frankfurt, 1967 to 1970 prorector.

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  1. 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. 195.