Anton Schwob

Anton Schwob (born August 29, 1937 in Apatin , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is an Austrian Germanist and professor emeritus at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz for older German language and literature.

Life

After traumatic childhood experiences in the Gakovo camp near Sombor , he and his mother managed to escape to Austria in 1947. He attended secondary school and federal teacher training institute in Salzburg.

From 1957 he studied German, history , art history and philosophy at the Universities of Marburg an der Lahn , Munich and Innsbruck , where he became a member of the K.Ö.HV Leopoldina in 1959 . In Marburg he worked on the German Language Atlas (with Walther Mitzka and Ludwig Erich Schmitt ), recording and recording Southeast German dialects in 1963 and 1964. In 1967 he received his doctorate from Johannes Erben in Innsbruck. phil. Since 1964 he has been with the historian Ute Monika Schwob , b. Schuller, married with whom he has two children.

From 1968 to 1982 he was an assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Innsbruck , he completed his habilitation in 1979 , and in 1981 he was visiting lecturer at the University of Vienna . From 1982 he held a professorship for Older German Language and Literature at the University of Graz, from 1992 to 1998 and 2002 to 2004 he was a director at the Institute for German Studies there. In 1999 he was dean of the humanities faculty at the University of Graz. After his retirement on October 1, 2005, he moved to Salzburg .

honors and awards

• 1980: Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities
• Anton Schwob is a member of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem

Research priorities

• Older German language and literature
• Late medieval German poetry
• Oswald von Wolkenstein
• Language and literature of southeast German language islands

Publications

• Settler mix and language equalization in young south-east German language islands using the example of the dialect of Neubeschenowa in the Banat. Phil. Diss. Mach. Innsbruck 1967.
• Ways and forms of language equalization in modern East and Southeast German language islands (= book series of the Southeast German Historical Commission. Vol. 25). Munich 1971.
• Oswald von Wolkenstein. A biography (= series of publications by the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute. Vol. 4). Bozen 1977 (2nd edition Bozen 1977. 3rd edition Bozen 1979. 1st reprint of 3rd edition Bozen 1982, 2nd reprint of 3rd edition Bozen 1989).
• Historical reality and literary implementation. Observations on the stylization of captivity in the songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein (= Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies. Germanistic series. Vol. 9). Innsbruck 1979.
• The witnesses of Oswald von Wolkenstein's life. Edition and commentary. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar. Volume 1: 1382-1419, Nos. 1-92. Edited by Anton Schwob with the collaboration of Karin Kranich-Hofbauer, Ute Monika Schwob and Brigitte Spreitzer. 1999. - Volume 2: 1420-1428, No. 93-177. Edited by Anton Schwob with the collaboration of Karin Kranich-Hofbauer, Ute Monika Schwob and Brigitte Spreitzer. 2001. - Volume 3: 1428-1437, No. 178-276. Edited by Anton Schwob with the assistance of Karin Kranich-Hofbauer and Brigitte Spreitzer, commented by Ute Monika Schwob. 2004.
• (with Ute Monika Schwob) Selected studies on Oswald von Wolkenstein . Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-901064-42-5 .
• 24 volumes as editor
• Editor of several book series and magazines
• Over 70 essays, as well as research reports, miscommunication, articles in handbooks, encyclopedias and reviews

Awards

• 1970 Theodor Körner Prize (Vienna)
• 1975 Honorary gift for the Georg Dehio Prize for cultural and intellectual history (Esslingen)
• 1981 Cardinal Innitzer Prize 1981 for the humanities (Vienna)
• 2001 Honorary doctorate from the Lucian Blaga University Sibiu / Hermannstadt
• 2003 Honorary doctorate from the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs
• 2005 Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2005 Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
• 2005 honorary member of the Society of Hungarian German Studies
• 2014 Gold Order of the Tyrolean Eagle

Functions

• since 1984 member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies Tübingen
• 1996–2000 President of the Austrian Society for German Studies
• since 1997 President of Austria Cooperation Vienna
• since 2000 member of the scientific advisory board of the Austria Institute Vienna
• since 2003 board member of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich

literature

• Wernfried Hofmeister, Bernd Steinbauer (Hrsg.): Through adventure you have to dare vil . Festschrift for Anton Schwob for his 60th birthday (= Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies. Germanistic series. 57). Institute for German Studies, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-901064-20-6 .
• Schwob, Anton . In: Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch. Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present . Volume 2: M - Z and register . Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , pp. 870-871.
• Schwob, Anton . In: Brockhaus. Encyclopedia in 30 volumes . Volume 24: Santi - Seld . 21st completely revised edition. Brockhaus, Leipzig et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7653-4124-X , p. 704.
• Schwob, Anton . In: Walter Myß (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxony. History, culture, civilization, science, economy, living space Transylvania (Transylvania) . Wort-und-Welt-Verlag, Innsbruck 1993, ISBN 3-85373-140-6 , p. 465.
• Stefan Sienerth : Anton Schwob on his 70th birthday . In: reflections. Journal for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe 56, 2007, issue 3, ISSN  1862-4995 , pp. 344–345.

Web links

• University of Graz: Anton Schwob
• Literature by and about Anton Schwob in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)