Dietrich Gerhardt (Slavicist)
Dietrich Kurt Gerhardt (born February 11, 1911 in Breslau ; † November 20, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German Slavist .
Life
Dietrich Gerhardt was the son of the zoologist Ulrich Gerhardt and his wife Renate (1877–1936), b. Zittelmann.
Gerhardt studied German language and literature with Georg Baesecke , comparative linguistics with Franz Specht and phonetics with Otto Bremer in Halle . From 1932 he switched to studying Slavic studies with Dmitrij Tschižewskij . In 1939 he was awarded a doctorate there. doctorate, the title of his dissertation was Gogol 'and Dostojevskij in their artistic relationship . In 1946 he became head of the Slavic seminar and lecturer for Slavic philology in Erlangen . In 1948 he was called to Münsterto an extraordinary position. In 1958 he was appointed to a full professorship for Slavic Studies in Münster and in 1959 in Hamburg .
Gerhardt's retirement took place in 1976, and since then he has published numerous writings. His last monograph was published in 2008, Who buys love gods? Metastases of a subject .
Act
Gerhardt worked together with Eric M. Warburg , Hans W. Hertz and Karl Heinrich Rengstorf for the establishment of the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg. From 1968 to 1972 Gerhardt was president of the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , from 1972 to 1974 its vice-president. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietrich Gerhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
- History of Slavic Studies in Hamburg
- Bulletin of German Slavic Studies (page 29f.): Wolf Schmid : Dietrich Gerhardt 100 years old
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerhardt, Dietrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gerhardt, Dietrich Kurt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 2011 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |