Dietrich Freydank

Dietrich Freydank (born June 29, 1928 in Friedersdorf bei Bitterfeld , † October 5, 1999 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Slavist .

Life

Dietrich Freydank studied Slavic, German and Indo-European studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and received his doctorate in 1957 with the thesis "The place names of the Bitterfeld district". In 1969 he received his habilitation there with the thesis "Leitwort bei AM Kurbskij". In 1981 he became an associate professor in the linguistic and literary studies department of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1992 he was appointed full professor for Slavic philology there. In 1990/91 he held a visiting professorship at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 1994 he retired.

His research interests ranged from Slavic onomastics and linguistic problems in contemporary Russian to Slavic language history, Old Bulgarian Studies, Old Russian literature and source research.

In addition to the monographs listed below, Dietrich Freydank published numerous essays and reviews on Slavic philology, mainly in the Zeitschrift für Slawistik .

Works

• Place names of the districts of Bitterfeld and Graefenhainichen , Berlin 1962
• The place names of the Bernburger Land (with K. Steinbrück), Halle 1966
• History of the Russian literary language (with W. Boeck, Chr. Fleckenstein), Leipzig 1974
• Old Russian Heiligenleben (with Konrad Onasch ), Leipzig 1977
• About poetry and others or the comma in tails and others (edited by H.-G. Werner in collaboration with D. Freydank, K. Krolop and R. Noack), Halle-Leipzig 1981
• Smoke trail of the pigeons. Radziwill-Chronik (translated from Old Russian and edited by H. Graßhoff, D. Freydank and G. Sturm with the collaboration of J. Harney), Leipzig and Weimar 1986
• The Fathers Book of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra (edited by D. Freydank and G. Sturm), Halle 1988
• At God's command we are to write letters to one another (edited by D. Freydank), Wiesbaden 1999

Festschrift for Freydank

• Swetlana Mengel (ed.): Myslaščju svobod'no imen'm 'i nravom': in honor of Dietrich Freydank. Münster / Hamburg / London: Lit-Verlag 2000, (Ed. With the collaboration of Thomas Daiber, Slavica varia Halensia, Vol. 6), ISBN 3-8258-5185-0 .
• Gottfried Sturm: Dietrich Freydank in memory , in: Zeitschrift für Slawistik, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2000): 116–117.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Freydank in the catalog of the German National Library