Gerhard Augst

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Gerhard Augst (2009)

Gerhard Augst (born July 27, 1939 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) ) has been Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Siegen since 1973 . Since his retirement in Siegen, Augst has been a lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

He studied history and German in Bonn and Mainz. In 1966 he passed his first state examination in 1969 received his doctorate he attended the University of Mainz for Dr. phil. and completed his habilitation in 1973 at the University of Giessen.

Important areas of work are orthography and folk etymology . He was involved in the reform of German spelling in 1996 , which also involved the binding definition of various folk etymological spellings. Since 1979 Augst was a member of the commission for spelling questions at the Institute for German Language , since 1990 its chairman. As early as 1982 Augst paved the way for the later implementation of the spelling reform: “A change in current conventions and norms about the pupil is tempting and, if it succeeds, would be the most promising, but it starts with the weakest link in the chain. ”In 1996 he was finally there, together with his colleagues Karl Blüml , Klaus Heller , Jakob Ebner and Horst Sitta , when the joint declaration of intent for the revision of German spelling was signed on July 1st in Vienna . He was then a member and chairman of the Intergovernmental Commission for German Spelling, which existed from 1997 to 2004 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professorship for German Linguistics and Language Didactics at the Justus Liebig University Gießen: Member of the Professorship for German Linguistics and Language Didactics; Accessed March 18, 2009
  2. ↑ Gerhard Augst: "Main" and "Head": A history of words up to 1550.
  3. ↑ Public Language Use, Volume III: Schools for Good Language Use, ed. from the German Academy for Language and Poetry. Stuttgart 1982, p. 137.
  4. ^ A b Theodor Ickler : Regulatory power. Background to the spelling reform (PDF, 1.9 MB). Leibniz-Verlag, St. Goar, 2004, ISBN 3-93115-518-8 , p. 21.
  5. ↑ Hiltraud Strunk [ed.]: Documenta orthographica. The Stuttgart and Wiesbaden recommendations vol. 1, Hildesheim 1998, p. XVIIf.
personal data
SURNAME Augst, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, Professor of German Linguistics
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenkirchen (Westerwald)