Eugene Rippl

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Eugen Rippl (born November 18, 1888 in Namiest an der Oslawa , Moravia; † May 6, 1945 in Prague ) was a Czech Slavist and professor at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague.

Life

After studying in Vienna and Prague , Eugen Rippl passed the teaching exams for Czech and German in 1912 and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1918 . Until 1921 he was a professor at the Olomouc Business Academy . He then taught at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague from 1929 as a private lecturer, from 1933 as an associate professor and from 1941 as a full professor of Czech and Slovak philology.

Rippel initially belonged to the Sudeten German Party (SdP) and, after its dissolution, to the NSDAP . During the Second World War he headed the Institute for Czech Language and Literature of the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation . In 1943 he wrote the article “The Jew and the Jewish Question in Modern Czech Literature”, which was included in the book “Weltkampf. The Jewish Question in Past and Present ”appeared.

Among his numerous scientific works, his studies of modern social dialects received special attention and are still important for the research of non-standard language forms of expression. Editor of German anthologies of Czech literature and the specialist journals Slawistische Schulblätter and Slawistische Rundschau . From 1937 Eugen Rippl was a member of the Bohemian Society for Science.

On the night of May 5 to 6, 1945, he and his wife, Anna, committed suicide by poisoning with coal gas in their apartment in Prague / Praha II, Schiffmühlgasse / Lodecká 2. Both were killed on May 12, 1945 in the Olšany cemetery in Buried Prague.

Works

  • On the vocabulary of Czech Rotwelsch , 1926
  • Contributions to Czech special language studies , 1929.
  • The old Czech life of St. Francis of Assisi based on an Olomouc manuscript from 1421 , 1931.
  • Czech in Everyday Life , 1937.
  • The soldier language of the Germans in the former Czechoslovak Army , 1943.

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon on the History of the Bohemian Lands , Volume III, edited by Ferdinand Seibt, Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum, Munich 2000, pp. 475 and 476.
  • Sudetenland. Bohemia Moravia Silesia , 1990, page 203 f.
  • Rippl, Eugen (1888-1945), Slavist . In: ÖBL 1815-1950, Vol. 9 (Lfg. 42, 1985), p. 174.
  • Masarykuv slovnik naucny , 6.
  • Prague News , 1974, No. 2, page 14.
  • Olomouc leaves 20, 1972, 106.

Web links

  • Eugen Rippl, Dr. phil. . In: Moravia. Database of German-Moravian authors
  • Rippl Eugen, Ripplová Anna . Evidence obětí Pražského povstání Oblastní kriminální úřadovny Praha / Catalog of Victims of the Prague Uprising, Prague District Criminal Police Office

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 498f.
personal data
SURNAME Rippl, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech Slavist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Namiest on the Oslawa , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1945
Place of death Prague