Alwin Kuhn

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Alwin Kuhn (born January 13, 1902 in Berlin ; † June 30, 1968 in Innsbruck ) was a German Romance studies and linguist .

life and work

After graduating from high school in Chemnitz and working in trade from 1921 to 1926, Kuhn studied Romance and English philology from 1927 to 1931 in Tübingen (with Gerhard Rohlfs ), Bonn (with Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke ) and Leipzig (with Walther von Wartburg and Theodor Frings ). In 1931 he received his doctorate from Wartburg on the French commercial language in the 17th century (Leipzig 1931) and also completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1935 with Der hocharagonesische Dialekt (in: Revue de linguistique romane 11, 1935).

In 1938 he became associate professor in Freiburg i.Br. , 1940 as successor to Friedrich Schürr full professor for Romance philology in Marburg and 1952 as successor to Josef Brüch full professor in Innsbruck , where he was dean of the faculty of philosophy from 1957 to 1958. Kuhn supplied over 150 articles for the French Etymological Dictionary and was responsible for the bibliographical supplement volumes of the Zeitschrift für Romansische Philologie for 30 years . In Innsbruck, numerous dissertations on Romansh were written under his leadership .

Kuhn was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (from 1958) and, after visiting professorships in 1960 and 1963 in Ann Arbor, of the Michigan Academy of Sciences (from 1963). Kuhn died at the age of 66.

Other works

  • El aragonés, idioma pirenaico. Madrid 1950
  • The Romance languages. Bern 1951
  • Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke . In: Thomas A. Sebeok (Ed.): Portraits of linguists. A biographical source book for the Western Linguistics, 1746-1963. Volume 2, Westport 1966, pp. 174-182

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SURNAME Kuhn, Alwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1968
Place of death innsbruck