Günter Neumann (philologist)

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Günter Neumann (born May 31, 1920 in Freiberg ; † January 24, 2005 in Würzburg ) was a German philologist (linguist), Indo-European , name researcher and author of numerous linguistic works.

Life

Günter Neumann was born on May 31, 1920 as the son of a vocational school teacher. In the Second World War , he served as a soldier at the age of 20. During the period of military occupation in northern Norway , which was rather calm, he learned the Norwegian language without an accent.

After his release from British captivity, Neumann began his studies in Leipzig . On the advice of the linguist Johannes Friedrich , however, he moved to the University of Göttingen . In 1958 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the survival of Hittite and Luwian language in Hellenistic and Roman times . Neumann was appointed successively to the University of Bonn , the University of Gießen and the University of Würzburg . He stayed in Würzburg until his retirement . In 1968 he was elected a corresponding member and in 1971 a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1988 he has been a corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Despite his severe cancer , which eventually led to his death, Neumann continued to work intensively on his studies and provided both students and other Indo-Europeanists with advice and assistance.

Fonts

Among the writings for which Neumann was responsible or co-author, there are the following:

  • Name studies on Old Germanic , ed. by Heinrich Hettrich and Astrid van Nahl (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, supplementary volume 59). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-020100-0 .
  • Lycian and its relatives. In: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Year 2004, No. 7.
  • The great Kuros of Samos. In: Samos . Volume 10.
  • System and expansion of the Hittite hieroglyphic writing. In: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Born in 1992, No. 4.
  • Phrygian and Greek. In: Meeting reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 499.
  • The languages ​​in the Roman Empire of the Imperial Era: Colloquium from April 8 to 10, 1974. In: Bonner yearbooks of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn in the Rhineland Regional Association and the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland. Volume 40.
  • New discoveries of Lycian inscriptions since 1901. In: Memoranda. Volume 135.
  • Hittite hieroglyphs and Luwian: new evidence for the connection. In: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Born 1973, No. 6.
  • The Lower Saxon place name Göttingen. In: News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Born in 1962, No. 5.
  • Investigations into the survival of Hittite and Luwian language in the Hellenistic and Roman times. 1958 and 1961.
  • Fragments of Apollodor's commentary on the Homeric catalog of ships in the Lexicon of Stephanos of Byzantium. 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . tape 2005 , no. 1 , 2006, p. 251 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2005
Place of death Wurzburg