Bernd von Arnim (Slavist)

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Bernd Dietrich Hans von Arnim (born September 8, 1899 in Rostock , † February 5, 1946 in Graz ) was a German Slavist .

Life

Von Arnim was the son of the classical philologist Hans von Arnim and his wife Elisabeth born. Giant.

After graduating from high school, Arnim studied Slavic Studies with Erich Berneker and Gerhard Gesemann in Munich and with N. van Wijk in Leiden . In 1930 he received his doctorate from the University of Leiden . In 1932 he completed his habilitation in Slavic Studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1939 he was appointed private lecturer and in 1941 he was appointed to the chair for Slavic Philology at the University of Graz . There he was appointed associate professor . Finally, in 1944, von Arnim was commissioned to act as a temporary professor for the Bulgarian language at the University of Vienna , without being released from his obligations in Graz. In 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

His scientific studies focused mainly on the Bulgarian language, the historical extent of which he researched, also on the language of the Proto-Bulgarians and the development and research of old Bulgarian literature. In his etymological investigations , he compared the Turkic languages with Old Bulgarian.

On the day of his death, von Arnim was appointed full professor in Austria.

He was married to Katharina Cornelia geb. van Leeuwen. The couple had three children.

Fonts

  • Study of the old Bulgarian Psalterium Sinaiticum. 1930 (reprint of the 1st), Kraus 1968
  • Contribution to the study of the Old Bulgarian and Church Slavonic word formation and the art of translation. Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1931
  • The scribes of the Psalterium Sinaiticum. Ijdo, Leiden 1931

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