Fritz Krüger (Romanist)
Fritz Krüger (born December 7, 1889 in Spremberg , † August 17, 1974 in Mendoza ) was a German Romance and Hispanic scholar.
life and work
Krüger received his doctorate in Gießen in 1911 with Dietrich Behrens with Linguistic Studies in Languedoc and Roussillon (Hamburg 1911 and Revue de Dialectologie Romane 4, 1912, pp. 1–15 and 5, 1913, pp. 1–88) and then published studies on the history of sounds in western Spanish Dialects: based on on-the-spot investigations; with notes on verbal inflection and two overview maps (Hamburg 1914). Because of the First World War , he did not habilitate until 1919 in Hamburg with Bernhard appointed .
In 1924 he became an associate professor in Hamburg and, in 1927, as the successor of Skull, a full professor of Romance philology. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 .
In 1945 he left Germany and became a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza (Argentina) and director of the Instituto de Lingüística there. Krüger was a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española .
In 1960 Krüger was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Other works
- El dialecto de San Ciprián de Sanabria: monografía leonesa , Madrid 1923.
- Introduction to New Spanish , Leipzig 1924.
- The High Pyrenees , 6 vols., Hamburg 1936–39.
- El léxico rural del Noroeste ibérico , Madrid 1947.
- El mobilario popular en los países románicos , 3 vol., Coimbre 1959–1963.
literature
- W. Theodor Elwert : Krüger, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 103 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Homenaje a Fritz Krüger , 2 vols., Mendoza 1952.
- Gerhard Moldenhauer, Fritz Krüger. Notice biographique et bibliographique , Louvain 1959.
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Also a national science? The German Romance Studies under National Socialism, in: Romance Journal for Literature History 22, 1998, p. 262 (reprints from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruger, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spremberg , Grodk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1974 |
| Place of death | Mendoza |