Gustav Korlén

Elfride and Gustav Korlén, 1965

Gustav Korlén (born January 27, 1915 in Falun ; † October 10, 2014 ) was a Swedish German scholar and linguist .

Gustav Korlén was a son of the Germanist Artur Korlén (* 1876). His mother came from Kiel . He received his doctorate from Lund University in 1945 . His teacher was the Germanist Erik Rooth (1889–1969). In 1952 Korlén took over the professorship for German studies at what would later become the University of Stockholm , where he became the founder of Swedish modern German studies.

In 1964, Gustav Korlén organized a meeting of Group 47 in Sigtuna . He worked for the magazine Moderna språk .

Korlén had been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 1960 , which awarded him the Friedrich Gundolf Prize in 1973 . In 1965 he received a Goethe Medal and in 1968 the Konrad Duden Prize of the City of Mannheim.

Publications (selection)

• The Middle Low German texts of the 13th century. Lund 1945.
• North German city rights. Lund 1950.
• Stockholm Pharmacopoeia Studies. A research report. In: Gundolf Keil , Rainer Rudolf, Wolfram Schmitt, Hans Josef Vermeer (eds.): Specialist literature of the Middle Ages. Festschrift Gerhard Eis . Metzler, Stuttgart 1968, pp. 449-456.
• Tysk phonetics. Lund 1979 (with Bertil Malmberg ), ISBN 91-40-30130-3 .
• Fritz Reuter in Scandinavia. In: Low German word. Volume 25, (Münster) 1985, pp. 67-85.

literature

• Wilfried Kürschner : Linguist Handbook . Vol. 1, Tübingen 1994, p. 487 ISBN 3-8233-5000-5
• Dieter Stellmacher : Obituary for Professor Dr. Gustav Korlén . Communications from the Fritz Reuter Society, No. 72. Neubrandenburg 2014, p. 8

Web links

• Obituary of the Goethe Institute Sweden