Bernd-Ulrich Kettner

Bernd-Ulrich Kettner (born October 1, 1939 in Braunschweig ) is a German linguist .

Life

Kettner attended the Pestalozzistraße elementary school from 1946 to 1950 and then the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Braunschweig until 1959 . From 1959 to 1968 he studied German and history at the University of Göttingen for teaching at secondary schools; In 1962/63 he spent a semester abroad at the University of Groningen , where he also studied Lower Saxony and worked at the Nedersaksisch Instituut . In 1968 he passed the first state examination in Göttingen and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD ; The subject of his dissertation, supervised by Heinrich Wesche , was the river names in the upper and middle line . From 1969 Kettner taught at the University of Marburg : 1969 to 1970 as a research assistant, 1970 to 1972 as an academic adviser and from 1972 to his retirement in 2002 as a professor of German linguistics.

Awards

• 1970: Conrad Borchling Prize for Low German and Frisian Linguistics and Literature

Fonts

• River names in the river basin of the upper and middle line (= name and word. Volume 6). Bösendahl, Rinteln 1972 (first dissertation University of Göttingen 1968).
• The Leine and its tributaries to below the confluence of the Innerste (= Hydronymia Germaniae . Delivery 8). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1973, DNB 740134957 .
• Collaboration on the Lower Saxony dictionary .

literature

• Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook . Narr, Tübingen 1994. Volume 1, p. 450.