Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt

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Klara Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt (born February 9, 1886 in Gröditz ; † August 24, 1964 in Leipzig ) was a German Medievalist ( old Germanist ) and professor of German philology at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt's grave at the south cemetery in Leipzig

The daughter of the Swabian factory director Karl Gasterstädt and his wife, Sophie, née Schönleber, attended the higher teachers ' seminar in the Königin-Katharina-Stift in Stuttgart from 1909 to 1912 . She then worked as a teacher at the Prieser Girls' School there.

From 1914 to 1920 she studied German, English and Romance studies at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig .

From 1918 to 1922 she worked as a librarian at the Institute for German Studies in Leipzig and received her doctorate in 1920 with her teacher Professor Eduard Sievers on the topic of the history of the Parzival . From then on she worked as a research assistant at the German Institute. In 1932, together with Theodor Frings, she published the articles on the history of the German language and literature , for which she also wrote numerous articles. From 1930 Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt was also a member of the Saxon Examination Commission for Higher Education.

Due to her marriage to the German studies and folklorist Fritz Karg in 1922 , she had to retire from university in 1933 because of the ban on double income for married people. After her divorce, she took over the management of the department for the Old High German Dictionary in 1935 and contributed to the preparation of the author's lexicon, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters , with several contributions .

After a professional stopover at the Thuringian State Archives in Altenburg , she was employed again as an assistant from 1946 and from 1948 as senior research assistant at the German Institute of Leipzig University. In 1952 she was appointed full professor for German philology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig.

Shortly after her retirement in 1955, she was one of the first women to be elected to the philosophical-historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

On the occasion of her 75th birthday, the non-political scholars with was patriotic earnings of DDR honored in silver.

Until her death, Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt felt obliged to publish the Old High German dictionary, which she gave shape and direction .

Works (selection)

  • On the history of the origins of Parsival , dissertation, M. Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1925
  • Selected pieces from the Egilssaga Skallagrímssonar , M. Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1934
  • Old High German Dictionary , Vols. 1–3, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1952ff (In collaboration with Theodor Frings and Rudolf Grosse)
  • Old High German Thing - New High German thing. The story of a word , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958 (= reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig: philological-historical class , 104, 2)
  • The Minnesingers in Pictures of the Manessian Manuscript (epilogue), Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1962 ( Insel-Bücherei 450 / 1B)

Edits

  • List of publications by Eduard Sievers , in Theodor Frings: Eduard Sievers , Hirzel, Leipzig 1933 (reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-historical class, vol. 85, no. 1)
  • Questions and research in the area and area of ​​Germanic philology. Ceremony for Theodor Frings on his 70th birthday, July 23, 1956 , in conjunction with the Institute for German Language a. Literature ed. by Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt u. Johannes Erben, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gertraud Müller: Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt. In: Research and Progress , Volume 39, Issue 2, 1965, p. 62
personal data
SURNAME Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karg-Gasterstädt, Klara Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gröditz
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1964
Place of death Leipzig