Erich Hofmann (Linguist)

Erich Hofmann (born March 4, 1895 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † November 7, 1982 in Kiel ) was a German linguist and professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Life

In 1926 Hofmann completed his habilitation in linguistics at the University of Göttingen under Eduard Hermann and became a private lecturer. The NSDAP he joined after the seizure of power in the 1933rd In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1935 he became associate professor and lecturer association leader at the University of Marburg . In 1937 he became a full professor at the University of Münster , and in 1940 he moved to the German University in Prague . In the Reich Ministry of Education from 1943 he acted as a consultant for the humanities. In 1950 he was appointed to Kiel, where he was also rector in 1954/55. In 1963 he retired .

His specialty was the Baltic languages . Together with Ernst Fraenkel he edited the Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary . He also worked on the history of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel.

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16, , Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , S. 524th
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 . P. 1596.
• Christiana Albertina, volumes 19-20, K. Wachholtz-Verlag, Kiel, 1984, p. 231.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hofmann, Erich. Hessian biography. (As of May 29, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).