Gilbert AR De Smet

Gilbert De Smet (born January 17, 1921 in Bevere (Oudenaarde), † 2003 in Ghent ) was a Belgian Germanist .

Life

The study of the older German language and literature took him to Bonn , Poznań and Leipzig . 1951 doctorate in De Smet with a thesis on the translations of the Latin Christian terms "pati" and "passio" to the Old High German . In 1956 he was appointed professor for German linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen in the Netherlands . Ten years later he was made full professor of German linguistics at the University of Ghent , where he trained in German . During this time he also held a visiting professorship at the University of Cologne and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 1972 . After his retirement he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Wetenschappelijke Tijdingen.

De Smet wrote the introduction to a new edition of the Dictionarium Latinogermanicum by Petrus Dasypodius , which appeared in 1974 and for the second time in 1995 .

↑ Petrus Dasypodius: Dictionarium Latinogermanicum. Documenta Linguistica. Georg Olms Verlag, 1974 OCLC 971155228 and 1995 ISBN 978-3-487405506
^ Awarded the Joost van den Vondel Prize 1986 to Professor Dr. Dr. hc Gilbert de Smet, Gent and the Vondel travel grants to Harlinde Lox, Gent, Maya Treptoe, Kiel, Marco Bunge, Amsterdam by the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster on November 14, 1986 in Gent. OCLC 64887465

personal data
SURNAME	Smet, Gilbert AR De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Smet, Gilbert De; Gilbert Antonius Remigius Johannes Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bevere (Oudenaarde)
DATE OF DEATH	2003
Place of death	Ghent