Annemarie Huebner

Cecilia Margaret Anne Marie Hübner (* 25. December 1908 in Genthin , † 7. January 1996 in Hamburg ) was a German specialist in German and Niederlandistin .

Life

Annemarie Huebner was the daughter of Hermann Carl August Huebner. Her father taught as director at a reform high school in Elmshorn , where Annemarie Hübner spent the first years of life. After graduating from high school in Elmshorn in 1928, she studied German, English, philosophy and psychology at the University of Hamburg . Early on, she placed an emphasis on Low German philology, which was taught by Conrad Borchling and Agathe Lasch . During his student days, Hübner worked in the dictionary archives of the Germanic seminar. Her dissertation from 1938, which Hans Teske accepted, dealt with "Studies on the language form of early Hamburg High German". The work, which methodically linked Agathe Lasch's studies on the linguistic history of Berlin, was never printed due to the outbreak of the Second World War . Until the beginning of the Second World War, Hübner did not lose contact with Agathe Lasch, whom she admired and who had to leave Hamburg University immediately after the seizure of power .

Starting in 1940, Hübner worked, initially unpaid, as a research assistant at the Middle Low German Dictionary Archive. She also taught at the Germanic seminar in the following years. Her exercises dealt with Gothic, Old Saxon, Middle High German, Early New High German and Middle Dutch. From 1943 to 1948 she worked as a substitute for the seminary. After the end of the Second World War, like other scientists, she resigned from her position so that it could be filled by colleagues who had returned from the war.

Hübner now taught Dutch and from 1951 took part in the publication of the Middle Low German Concise Dictionary under the direction of Gerhard Cordes . In 1956, Hübner got a permanent position as a lecturer for Dutch and Afrikaans and taught at Hamburg University until she retired in 1976. Even in retirement, she often took unpaid teaching assignments into the last years of her life. During her service time at the University of Hamburg she set up a permanent Middle Dutch proseminar and also addressed issues of art and literary history in her courses. From 1958 to 1972, Hübner was a board member of the German-Dutch Society in Hamburg, which helped schoolchildren on language trips and study trips to the Netherlands.

In 1959, on behalf of the Lübeck Regional Court , Hübner prepared a comparative report on the authenticity of the sources of the German translation of Anne Frank's diary . The Dutch Institute for War Documentation later confirmed Hübner's assessment as part of an extensive study.

Annemarie Hübner found her final resting place in Hamburg's main cemetery in Altona .

Works

Annemarie Hübner mainly devoted herself to the Middle Low German Concise Dictionary, for which she edited numerous articles. From 1956 to 1974 she was responsible for seven deliveries of the dictionary. Five of the deliveries belong to the third volume begun by Hübner, which begins with the letter "S". In addition, Huebner wrote essays that dealt with the history of the Low German language. She helped design textbooks that were published by Langenscheidt-Verlag and worked as a translator for several Dutch non-fiction and youth books. Huebner later dealt with new versions of important sources on the history of the North German churches in the early modern period.

Honors

Annemarie Hübner was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1961 and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1963 . Both memberships speak for high recognition of Hübner's achievements outside of Germany.

literature

• Mirko Nottscheid: Hübner, Annemarie . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 163-165 .
• Mirko Nottscheid: The German and Dutch scholar Annemarie Hübner (1908-1996). On the academic biography of a Hamburg linguist between the Weimar Republic and the post-reunification period . In: Mirko Nottscheid u. a. (Ed.): The Germanist Agathe Lasch (1879–1942). Essays on life and impact, Nordhausen: Bautz 2009 (bibliothemata; 22), pp. 109–168. ISBN 978-3-88309-500-4

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cäcilie Margarete Annemarie Hübner at garten-der-frauen.de