Gerd Dicke (Germanist)

Gerd Dicke (* 1956 in Duisburg ) is a German Germanic Medievalist .

Life

From 1976 to 1981 he studied German and history in Marburg and Münster (1982: 1st state examination for teaching at secondary levels I and II). From 1982 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the SFB 7 ( Medieval Research ) at the University of Münster . From 1986 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the German Institute of the University of Münster; 1990 PhD . From 1992 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Department of German Philology at the University of Göttingen . After completing his habilitation in 1998 ( venia legendi : German Philology), he held a chair at the University of Kiel in 1999 . From 1999 to 2002 he was a professor for German Medieval Studies at the University of Konstanz . Since 2002 he has held the chair for Older German Literature (Medieval Studies) at the University of Eichstätt . From 2007 to 2009 he was Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the KU Eichstätt - Ingolstadt .

His research focuses on smaller narrative forms (fable, example, mare, fazetie, joke), gnomics, courtly epics (especially Tristan), sermons, literature of early German humanism, material and motive history, tradition and book history (especially early printing) and historical semantics.

Works

• The fables of the Middle Ages and early modern times , Fink, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-7705-2488-4
• Heinrich Steinhöwel's "Esopus" and his continuers , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 978-3-484-89103-6
• The simultaneity of handwriting and letterpress printing (edited with Klaus Grubmüller ), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-447-04767-8
• In the word field of the text. Word historical contributions to the designations of speech and writing in the Middle Ages (Ed.), De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018328-3
• From the illustrious women. Giovanni Boccaccio's “De claris mulieribus” in early New High German translation / Heinrich Steinhöwel. In illustration of the first dr. (Ulm 1473) (newly translated and edited with Almut Schneider), Ed. Isele, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-86142-590-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Dicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Gerd Dicke