Gerhard Kahlo
Gerhard Kahlo (born December 29, 1893 in Magdeburg , † July 18, 1974 in Cottbus ) was a German linguist , university professor and writer . In Magdeburg, Kahlo joined the artist group Die Kugel . His very extensive scientific work, in which, in addition to numerous publications on Asian and European languages, a large number of Germanistic and folkloric works are to be emphasized, also refers to the Magdeburg area, as in "Lower Saxony sagas" from 1923.
Life
Gerhard Kahlo studied classical philology , German studies , history and philosophy in Göttingen and Jena , where he dealt with European and Asian languages, after attending the education department at the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg . Already during the First World War, Kahlo was politically motivated and joined the Workers and Soldiers Council at the University of Jena. He later joined the USPD and, after its dissolution, became a member of the Lenin League. After the World War he joined the Magdeburg artists' association "Die Kugel" and briefly took on a teaching post at the high school in Salzwedel . After 1933, Kahlo had considerable difficulties finding employment due to his political stance.
Kahlo wrote for the magazine "Der deutsche Schriftsteller" published by the Reichsschrifttumskammer .
In 1945 Kahlo joined the KPD , trained new teachers and campaigned for the school expansion in the Belzig district. In 1952 he was a lecturer at the Wiesenburg / Priegnitz teacher training college and a teacher in Wittenberg and Senftenberg. In 1953, Kahlo was appointed professor of folklore at the Humboldt University in Berlin and shortly thereafter at the East Asian Institute of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, where he dealt intensively with the Malayo-Polynesian languages and created standard works for teaching and research.
His estate is in the Magdeburg Literature House .
Literary work
Kahlo published stories, poems, fairy tales and legends, novels and plays, as well as translations and adaptations of plays (Iffland, von Arnim).
Honors
- 1969 Honorary member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
literature
- Erika Taube / Hans Herrfurth: biography of Gerhard Kahlo 1893–1974. in: Treatises and reports of the Staatliches Museum für Volkskunde Dresden (Bd. 37), Dresden 1979.
Web links
- Literature by Gerhard Kahlo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerhard Kahlo in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ^ In the January 1937 edition z. B. the article "Eine neue Sprachseuche", p. 9.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahlo, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1974 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |