Erika Ising

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Erika Ising (* April 23, 1928 in Kiel as Erika Leißner ; † August 28, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German German philologist and linguist . She was the mother of 5 children.

Live and act

In 1944, at the age of 16, she took on smaller assignments from the Confessing Church .

After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1947, Ising studied German, Indo-European, history and Swedish at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1947 to 1952 . In 1957 he received his doctorate in philosophy. The habilitation at the Humboldt University took place in 1969. From 1952 to 1968 she was working manager of the linguistic commission at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1975 to 1988 she worked as a research group leader at the Central Institute for Linguistics at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR. Her main areas of work were communication theory, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, language culture and the history of linguistics.

After the local elections in the GDR in 1990 , she was deputy mayor of Berlin-Köpenick and district councilor for health and environmental protection until December of the same year . She then became chairwoman of the Association for the Promotion of Linguistic Studies e. V.

Fonts

  • The language in the German anti-fascist resistance in Zeitschrift für Germanistik Vol. 9, No. 4 (August 1988), pp. 404-421
  • The development of the grammar of the vernacular languages ​​in Central and Eastern Europe. Studies on the influence of the Latin elementary grammar of Aelius Donatus De octo partibus orationis ars minor. Berlin 1970
  • The beginnings of vernacular grammar in Germany and Bohemia. Berlin 1969
  • Wolfgang Ratke's German grammars. Berlin 1957 (dissertation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ memorial , aspetos.com
  2. ↑ The biographical information follows Wilfried Kürschner / Hendrik Wilsenack: Linguisten Handbuch. 1. Band A - L . Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , p. 407
  3. ↑ a b c d An eventful life. in: Gerda Szepansky : The silent emancipation. Women in the GDR. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12075-6 .
  4. ↑ Preview of the article
personal data
SURNAME Ising, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leissner, Erika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2019
Place of death Berlin