Ewald Standop

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Ewald Standop (born January 6, 1921 in Dorfwelver ; † May 31, 2018 in Würzburg ) was a German English scholar , linguist and literary scholar ( medieval studies ).

Life

He passed the state examination in 1949 in the subjects of English, German and French in Münster . There he was with English Studies literary work on TS Eliot's cultural criticism to Dr. phil. PhD at Herrmann Heuer and was a research assistant in Münster. In 1955 he completed his habilitation with a mediavistic, linguistic thesis on the syntax and semantics of the modal auxiliary verbs in Old English: 'magan, motan, scutan, willan' . He then taught as a private lecturer in Münster and Freiburg.

In 1957 he was appointed associate professor for English philology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1960 he followed the call to the University of Cologne . After interim calls to Kiel, Bonn, Gießen and Munich, he was full professor of English linguistics at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1973 . 1967–1975 Standop was a reviewer for the German Research Foundation, 1974–1975 chairman of the Bavarian Study Reform Commission. Even after his retirement in 1989, Standop researched, taught and published well into old age.

His main research interests were phonetics and phonology, lexicography and the language of Shakespeare.

Ewald Standop was a Protestant, married since 1949 and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • TS Eliot's cultural criticism. 1953. (Dissertation)
  • The form of scientific work. 1 1955 under the title The form of the scientific manuscript. Bochum: Pöppinghaus. 2 1957 Dortmund: Lensing. 5 1973 Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer. 14 1994 (from 1994) edited by Matthias LG Meyer . 18 2008 Wiebelsheim: Quelle & Meyer.
  • Syntax and semantics of the modal auxiliary verbs in Old English: magan, motan, scutan, willan 1957. (Habilitation thesis)
  • English literary history. with Edgar Mertner 1967, 5th edition 1992.
  • English dictionaries under a magnifying glass. 1985.
  • Outline of the English metric. 1989
  • Essay on English poetry. 1995.
  • Beowulf. 2005.
  • Pseudodoxia philologica. 2011.
  • Credo quia absurdity? Belief in the absurd: reflections on Christian belief and the argumentation of the Pope and other authors . 2013. Wuppertal: KSP-Verlag.
  • Introduction to English metrics. 2014. Trier: WVT-Verlag.
  • Aspects of English grammar: overview and individual questions. 2016. Trier: WVT-Verlag.
  • The sounds - vowels and consonants in Low German from the Soester Börde . 2017. Self-published.

items

  • The designation of the poetic genres in English and in German. In: Germ.-roman. Monthly. New episode. Volume 6, 1956, pp. 382-392.

literature

  • Standop, Ewald . In: Joseph Kürschner, Axel Schniederjürgen (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2015 . Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 4: SE – Z (=  Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar ). 27th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033717-4 (for a fee, Kürschner-Online from De Gruyter ).
  • Sauer, Hans; Rüdiger Pfeiffer-Rupp (ed.). 2020. You will know the truth [Ye shall know the truth] . In memory of the philologist Ewald Standop . Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Ewald Standop , FAZ , June 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Standop, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorfwelver
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2018
Place of death Wurzburg