Gerd Simon

This article deals with the German scholar Gerd Simon. For the Slavic see Gerhard Simon ; on the writer see Gert Micha Simon .

Gerd Simon (born April 11, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a Germanist and linguist who worked for many years at the University of Tübingen . He also published under the pseudonym Gérard Simenon.

Life

After attending school for boys in Hamburg-Altona, he graduated from high school in 1956. From 1956 to 1964 he studied "interdisciplinary" at the University of Hamburg German studies, possibly theology, philosophy and pedagogy (with a degree), several other subjects without a degree. In 1968 he received his doctorate on the "first German carnival tradition". From 1968 to 1970 he completed his legal clerkship and from 1969 was a lecturer in language statistics at the German Department of the University of Hamburg. Simon has been Academic Councilor and Senior Counselor at the German Department at the University of Tübingen since 1970 ; The focus of his research is the interdisciplinary theory of meaning and the history of science in German studies , especially in the National Socialist German Reich .

Simon is a member of the scientific advisory board of the " Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research " (DISS), the "Eurolinguistic Working Group Mannheim" (ELAMA) and in 1996 was co-founder and chairman of the "Society for Interdisciplinary Research Tübingen" (GIFT). In 2002 he founded the "Philology-Historical Research Contract Service" (PFAD).

Publications

as an author

• with Ulrich Ammon: New Aspects of Sociolinguistics . Beltz, Weinheim 1975, ISBN 3-407-55005-7 .
• with Joachim Lerchenmueller: changing masks. How SS-Hauptsturmführer Schneider became the FRG university rector Schwerte and other stories about the agility of German science in the 20th century. GIFT, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-932613-02-3 .
• Book fever. On the history of the book in the 3rd Reich. GIFT, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-932613-08-2 .

as editor

• Linguistics and political engagement. On the problem and social history of some language theoretical, language didactic and language maintenance approaches in German studies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Beltz, Weinheim 1979, ISBN 3-407-55017-0 .
• as Gérard Simenon: This text is a fake. With numerous image forgeries . GIFT, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-932613-07-4 .
• German studies in the planning games of the security service of the SS. A document from the early history of SD research (= The philological-historical sciences in the planning games of the SD. Volume 1). GIFT, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-932613-06-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Gerd Simon