Dietz Bering

Dietz Bering (born September 3, 1935 in Münster , Westphalia ) is a German historian and linguist who became known in Germany primarily for his books on the conceptual history of the intellectual and Der Name als Stigma about anti-Semitism and naming. Until his retirement he taught Older Language and Literature as an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne .

Life

Bering studied in Münster and Berlin , first law and then completed the state examination for teaching in German and history. He then worked as an assessor at a high school. He received his doctorate in 1977 from the Free University of Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1986 at the University of Cologne. In the academic year 1981/82 he was a founding fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg and later a visiting professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle . He has been retired since 2000. Bering was friends with Benno Ohnesorg and his wife in Berlin and reported on the events that led to Ohnesorg's death.

Awards

• 1989: Annual prize from the Henning Kaufmann Foundation to promote German name research on the basis of linguistic history
• 1997: Cologne Prize from the University of Cologne and the City of Cologne
• 2012: "Humanities International - Prize for the Promotion of the Translation of Humanities Works" by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Foreign Office (translation of The Epoch of the Intellectual into Russian)

Fonts

• The intellectuals. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-910270-1 ( abstract ).
• The name as a stigma. Anti-Semitism in everyday German life 1812–1933. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-608-91450-1 . English edition: Polity Press, Cambridge 1992 ( abstract ).
• Fight for names. Bernhard Weiß versus Joseph Goebbels. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-91350-5 .
• The age of the intellectuals 1898–2001. Birth - concept - tomb. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940432-91-9 ( review , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ).
• Was Luther Anti-Semite? The German-Jewish relationship as a tragedy of proximity. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86280-071-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietz Bering in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dietz Bering on the website of the University of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See http://www.wiko-berlin.de/index.php?id=220
2. ↑ Contemporary witness remembers Ohnesorg death , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , May 21, 2009.
3. ^ Henning Kaufmann Foundation - 1989 annual award to Dietz Bering. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Jg. 45 (1989), No. 91, p. 3628.
4. ^ Professor in Cologne , website of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , June 1, 2007, accessed on March 18, 2016.
5. ↑ Award-winning works October 2012 , website of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, accessed on March 18, 2016.