Edwin Roedder
Edwin Carl Lothar Clemens Roedder (born April 8, 1873 in Niederwasser ; † October 21, 1945 in Madison ) was a German-American studies in German.
Life
He was the son of a Rhenish civil engineer who had come to the Black Forest to build the Black Forest Railway. The mother came from Schefflenz , where the family often spent time and where Edwin attended elementary school. He then went to high schools in Tauberbischofsheim and Bruchsal and studied classical literature at Heidelberg University from 1891. In 1892 he moved to Ann Arbor University, where he was named Dr. phil. left to continue teaching German in Ann Arbor and at a military academy. Around 1900 he moved to the University of Wisconsin , where he rose from lecturer to professor and taught for almost 30 years. In the fall of 1929 he moved to the college in New York City as the successor to Camillo von Klenze , where he headed the professorship for philology in the German department. He died in Wisconsin in 1945; his urn was buried in Schefflenz in 1948.
plant
Roedder has presented a very large number of writings on questions of German linguistics, in particular on phonetics, syntax and above all on dialect research. In addition, he has reviewed around 500 writings by colleagues. In addition, with Das Südwestdeutsche Reichsdorf in the past and present as well as the vernacular and vocabulary of the Baden Franconian region, he has also written two publications on local history about Oberschefflenz, for whose source collection he repeatedly spent long vacations in Schefflenz between 1903 and 1927 and worked in Baden archives.
Awards
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor
- Honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University
- Honorary citizen of Schefflenz
literature
- A scholarly life between building land and New York - Professor Dr. Edwin Carl Roedder on his 100th birthday . In: Gemeinde Schefflenz 774–1974 , Schefflenz 1974, pp. 5–16.
Web links
- Library Edwin Carl Roedder on the website of the Badische Landesbibliothek
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roedder, Edwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roedder, Edwin Carl Lothar Clemens (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Low water |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1945 |
| Place of death | Madison |