Gustav Soyter

Gustav Soyter (born January 30, 1883 in Munich ; † May 7, 1965 ibid) was a German Byzantinist and Neo-Graecist .

Life

From 1902 to 1907 he studied Classical Philology, Byzantine-Modern Greek Philology, Classical Archeology, History, German Philology and Philosophy at the University of Munich . After receiving his doctorate in 1911 as Dr. phil. at the University of Munich ( research on the modern Greek language comedies Babylonia by DK Byzantios and Korakistika by KJ Rhizos ) and the habilitation in 1921 for Middle and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Würzburg ( the popular distich in the modern Greeks. A contribution to knowledge of the modern Greek folk poetry ) he was there from 1921 to 1927 Privatdozent for Middle and Modern Greek Philology. From 1927 to 1936 he was a non-scheduled associate professor for Middle and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Würzburg. From 1936 to 1945 he was Associate Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the Philological and Historical Department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . Since 1950 he has been a lecturer at the University of Erlangen .

Fonts (selection)

• Byzantine poetry, a selection from scholarly and popular poetry from the 4th to the 15th century, Greek and German in the meter of the original texts . Athens 1938, OCLC 3849853 .
• Byzantium and New Greece . Bonn 1941, OCLC 32949669 .
• Grammar and reader of the modern Greek folk and written language . Harrossowitz, Leipzig 1944; 6th, revised edition Wiesbaden 1963, reprint Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-447-00886-5 .
• Greek humor, from Homer's time to the present day. Historically interesting texts from three millennia . Berlin 1961, OCLC 974177752 .

Web links

• Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig