Gerhard Helbig (linguist)

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Gerhard Helbig (born December 29, 1929 in Leipzig ; † May 29, 2008 ibid) was a German German philologist .

Life

Gerhard Helbig studied between 1948 and 1952 in his hometown of Leipzig. He was a graduate of the courses in German, Philosophy and English . Helbig received his doctorate there in 1953 with the dissertation "Apriorism in German literary studies and ways of overcoming it - an attempt at an epistemological analysis of the methodological status of contemporary literary studies". Since 1957 he has been active in research and teaching in the field of “German as a Foreign Language” and in 1969 he was appointed the first full professor for “German as a Foreign Language”. This was the first chair for this subject in the entire German-speaking area. He held the first professorship for German as a foreign language transferred to him there until his retirement in 1995.

From 1967 to 1995 he was head of the linguistics department at the Herder Institute at Leipzig University . In addition, he served for many years as dean of the local faculty for cultural, linguistic and educational sciences. Helbig also worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine Deutsch als Fremdsprache. He earned his habilitation in German studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with the title of the thesis: "Function and content in language using the example of the pure case of the noun in contemporary German".

Helbig, member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for German Language in Mannheim since 1990 , full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1995 , honored with an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University and the Konrad Duden Prize of the City of Mannheim in 1994 , died on May 29, 2008 78 years old in Leipzig.

Gerhard Helbig published almost 600 works on German linguistics and on the subject of German as a foreign language.

Publications (selection)

  • (with Wolfgang Schenkel ) Dictionary on valence and distribution of German verbs . 1st edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1969 (8th edition 1991)
  • (with Joachim Buscha ) German grammar. A handbook for the foreigners' course. 1st edition, Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1972 (19th edition 1999)
  • (with Joachim Buscha): German grammar. A handbook for the foreigners' course. Langenscheidt, Berlin / Munich / Vienna / Zurich / New York 2001, ISBN 978-3-468-49493-2
  • (with Joachim Buscha) Short German grammar for foreigners. 1st edition, Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1974 (6th edition 1990)
  • (with Joachim Buscha) German exercise grammar. 1st edition, Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1976 (5th edition 1989)
  • Linguistics, confrontation, foreign language teaching. 1st edition, Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1981
  • Valence - clauses - semantic cases - sentence models. 1st edition, Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1981
  • Lexicon of German particles. 1st edition, Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1988 (3rd edition 1994)
  • Development of linguistics since 1970 . West German publishing house, Opladen 1990
  • Problems of valence and case theory. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992
  • Linguistic theories of modernity. Weidler, Berlin 2002
  • On the meaning of the words: an illustrated lexicon. With drawings by Hans-Eberhard Ernst. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exact biographical data of Prof. em. Dr. Dr. hc Gerhard Helbig on the website www.saw-leipzig.de
  2. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig [1]
personal data
SURNAME Helbig, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2008
Place of death Leipzig