Günter Reichenkron
Günter Reichenkron (born April 9, 1907 in Berlin ; † June 20, 1966 there ) was a German Romance scholar, linguist and Balkanologist .
life and work
Günter Reichenkron studied Romance Studies, Slavic Studies, Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies. He received his doctorate in 1932 in Berlin under Ernst Gamillscheg on passive, medium and reflexive in the Romance languages (Jena / Leipzig 1933) and completed his habilitation there in 1939 with contributions to Romance phonology (Jena / Leipzig 1939). From 1942 he was a full professor at the University of Posen , deputy director of the "German Scientific Institute" in Bucharest , director of the Odessa branch and founder of the "German Scientific Institute" in Tirana . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP .
Nothing is known about its denazification . From 1948 until his death at the age of 59, he was a full professor of Romance philology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1960 he founded the Institute for Balkanology and in 1962 together with Franz Dölger and Alois Schmaus the Zeitschrift für Balkanologie .
Other works
- (Ed.) (Together with Alois Schmaus) The culture of Southeastern Europe, its history and forms of expression , Wiesbaden / Munich 1964
- Historical Latin-Old Romance grammar. Part 1. Introduction , Wiesbaden 1965
literature
- Obituary in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 4, 1966, pp. 3–7
- Klaus-Henning Schroeder in: Südostforschungen 25, 1966, pp. 405–407
- Ion Popinceanu in: Revista scriitorilor români 5, 1966, p. 142 f.
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2001. ISBN 3-525-35357-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Günter Reichenkron in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Reichenkron, Günter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 308 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X , p. 62
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichenkron, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romance philologist and Balkanologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1966 |
| Place of death | Berlin |