Bruno Boesch

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Bruno Boesch (born March 13, 1911 in Herisau ; † November 30, 1981 in Seegräben ) was a Swiss German studies specialist .

Life

Boesch attended the canton school at Burggraben in St. Gallen. After graduating from high school, he studied German and Romance studies from 1926 at the University of Bern , the University of Basel , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Sorbonne . In 1936 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After studying in Munich and Leipzig, he taught at high schools. In 1940 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich . After eight years as a private lecturer , he was appointed adjunct professor.

In 1957 he received the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize . The Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg appointed him in 1959 to a professorship and 1964 to the Chair . He turned down the offer of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he was rector of the University of Freiburg. In 1977 he retired . He died at the age of 70.

Scientific interests were the history of the German language and literature of the Middle Ages ( didactic poetry , Heinrich Seuse , Heinrich Wittenwiler ), historical dialectology and name research . He was the head of the Central Office for Old High German Names, Director of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies in Freiburg, member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg and the Institute for German Language and founder of the workshops of the Alemannic dialectologists (today working days on Alemannic dialectology ).

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation: The view of art in Middle High German poetry .
  2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Investigations into the Alemannic document language of the 13th century .
  3. ↑ leo-bw.de
  4. ^ Eckart Conrad Lutz: Bruno Boesch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 16, 2007 , accessed July 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Boesch, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boesch, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss German studies specialist in Freiburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Herisau
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1981
Place of death Seegräben , Canton of Zurich