Alfred Schönfeldt

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Alfred Schönfeldt (born October 30, 1935 in Riga ) is a German Germanist and university professor of German-Baltic origin.

Life

Schönfeldt was born in Riga and relocated with his family to the Reichsgau Wartheland in Leslau as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939 . After fleeing in 1945, the family came to Lübeck , 1946 to Wyk auf Föhr (where he attended the Carl Hunnius boarding school ) and in 1949 to Essen , where he graduated from high school in 1955. He studied German and Latin at the universities in Göttingen , Hamburg and Marburg . He passed his state examination in 1961; In 1962 he did his doctorate with Ludwig Erich Schmitt with a thesis on word geography. It was developed by Walther Mitzka involved in the collections for a Baltic German Dictionary. After his legal clerkship in the school service in Marburg, Schönfeldt took on an assistant position at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he was involved in the preparations for the Prussian dictionary . He completed his habilitation in 1974 and in 1983 took over a professorship for German linguistics at Kiel University . He retired in 1999 and now lives in Berlin.

Publications

  • Spatial and historical layers of designation in the German synonymy of the butcher and butcher . Diss. Marburg 1965.
  • Studies on the morphology of the verb in the East and West Prussian dialects . Wiesbaden 1977 (= supplements to the journal for dialectology and linguistics NF20)
  • To analyze the riddle . In: Journal for German Philology 97, 1978, pp. 60–73.
  • Comments on linguistic rituals . In: Friedhelm Debus / Ernst Dittmer (eds.): Sandbjerg 85 . Neumünster 1986. pp. 327-344.
  • the same is not the same. Observations on equal words in the FRG. In: Horst Haider Munske / Peter von Polenz / Oskar Reichmann / Reiner Hildebrandt (eds.): German vocabulary. Lexicological studies. Ludwig Erich Schmitt on the 80th birthday of his Marburg students . Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 1988. pp. 443-463.
  • Notes on the language of remembrance on war memorials . In: Forms of Remembering. Lectures on the day of national mourning in 1992, given at the University of Kiel . Pp. 29-47.
  • Corona Dorpatensis Marburg. Album fratrum 1947-1967. [Marburg 1967]
  • several essays on Baltic German noted in:
  • Ineta Balode, Dzintra Lele-Rozentāle: German in the Baltic States. An annotated research bibliography. With the assistance of Reet Bender u. Manfred v. Boetticher (= foreign languages ​​in the past and present. Volume 17). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-447-10598-9 .
  • Collaboration on the Baltic Legal Dictionary of the Baltic Historical Commission , of which he has been a member since 1963.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The material on which he continued to work is now in the Herder Institute (Marburg) .
  2. ↑ Erhard Riemann (Ed.): Prussian Dictionary. Vol. 1, Delivery 1: Introduction. Neumünster 1974, p. 11; 23-47
  3. ↑ https://www.balt-hiko.de/online-publikationen/baltisches-rechtsw%C3%B6rterbuch/
  4. ^ Paul Kaegbein, Wilhelm Lenz: Fifty Years of Baltic Historical Research 1947–1996. Mare Balticum, Cologne 1997. pp. 159f.
personal data
SURNAME Schönfeldt, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönfeldt, Alf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga