Fritz Tschirch

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Fritz Tschirch (born February 16, 1901 in Königs Wusterhausen ; † February 18, 1975 in Euskirchen-Schweinheim ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

Fritz Tschirch did his doctorate in 1929 under the Berlin Germanist Julius Petersen on the "Altonaer Joseph ", an "alleged youthful poetry" of Goethe . After the war he was called to the university from school. He was initially a professor at the University of Greifswald , then from 1956 at the University of Jena (Chair for Ancient German Studies). In April 1958 he fled the GDR for political reasons and from the winter semester 1958/59 taught in the field of Old German and Medieval Studies at the University of Cologne , initially as a substitute for Josef Quint, then as a full professor. In 1969 he retired.

Tschirch worked on the Grimm dictionary until 1954 , for which he wrote more than 450 articles. After fleeing to the West, he headed the Luther dictionary in Göttingen for a while. Tschirch's most important scientific publication is the history of the German language published by Erich Schmidt Verlag (Berlin) (2 volumes, first in 1966 and 1969).

Tschirch was not only a strict and demanding teacher; because of his odd nature he was also considered an original among the students. Ulla Hahn dedicates a section to him in the third part of her fictional autobiography ( Spiel der Zeit , 2014), looking back on her studies in Cologne in the 1960s .

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Footnotes

  1. See also Sabine Etzold, "Fröhliche Karteileichen" , Die Zeit , January 29, 1993.