Alois Schmaus

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Alois Schmaus (born October 28, 1901 in Maiersreuth , Markt Neualbenreuth ( Upper Palatinate ), † July 27, 1970 in Munich ) was a German Slavist and Balkanologist .

Life

Schmaus graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Metten (Lower Bavaria) and studied general and Indo-European linguistics as well as Slavic, Romance and English philology in Prague and Munich . He received his doctorate in 1923 under Erich Berneker in Munich with a thesis on "The Development of Conjunctional Hypotaxes in Czech". From 1923 to 1928 he studied Slavic, Balkan and Oriental Studies in Belgrade , and from 1928 to 1940 he worked as a German lecturer at the University of Belgrade . 1939-1944 he worked at the German Cultural Institute / German Scientific Institute in Belgrade, whose director he was appointed in August 1941 after the German invasion of Yugoslavia. He was also a visiting professor at Belgrade University until its closure in 1944.

In 1948 Schmaus completed his habilitation at the University of Munich , where he was appointed private lecturer, in 1951 as an adjunct professor and in 1957 as a full professor for Slavic and Balkan philology. In 1963 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Schmaus gained fame as the author of popular textbooks for German and Serbo-Croatian : “German for Yugoslavs” ( Nemački u 100 lekcija , 1954, 1971 14 ) and “Serbo-Croatian for Germans” (textbook for the Serbian language, 1944, and textbook for the Serbocroatian language, 1961 ). In addition to his university teaching activities, he was co-editor of the "Welt der Slaven", the "Zeitschrift für Balkanologie" and the "Slavic Contributions" and published numerous papers on the language, folklore and intellectual history of the southern Slavs. He paid particular attention to Dositej Obradović and Petar Petrović Njegoš , whose "Bergkranz" he brought out in 1963. Other focal points of interest Schmaus' were old Serbian literature, South Slavic folk epics and Turkish loanwords (Turzisms) in Serbo-Croatian. Much of his work has appeared in Serbo-Croatian. In 1971/79 the four-volume collection “Collected Slavic and Balkan Treatises” was published in Munich.

literature

  • AS: Textbook of the Serbian Language. Series: Writings of the German Scientific Institute DWI Belgrade, Volume 5. Südost-Verlag, Belgrade 1944
  • M. Mojašević: Schmaus, Alois . In: Miroslav Krleža (ed.): Enciklopedija Jugoslavije . Volume 7, R-Srbija. JLZ, Zagreb 1968, p. 173.
  • H. Birnbaum: Schmaus, Alois . In: Mathias Bernath, Karl Nehring (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas . Volume IV, R-Z. (Southeast European Works; 75, 4). Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, pp. 92-93.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Alois Schmaus , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Feast, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist and Balkanologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Maiersreuth , market Neualbenreuth , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1970
Place of death Munich