Hans Hartmann (Celtologist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Hartmann (born November 18, 1909 in Rüstringen near Wilhelmshaven , † December 11, 2000 ) was a German Celtologist .

Life

Hans Hartmann, son of the Gendarmeriekommissar Gustav Hartmann and Johanna nee Theiken, pupil and high school graduate at the Mariengymnasium in Jever , turned to studying classical philology , Indology , Indo-European studies and classical archeology at the University of Marburg from 1928 . In addition, he devoted himself to Finn-Ugric and other non-Indo-European languages. 1930 joined Hartmann at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Berlin , where he took a degree in Slavic , Indo-European, Iranian and Philosophy , 1933 took place its graduation to the Dr. phil.

Hartmann then held an assistant position at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, in 1937 he received a scholarship from the Reich Ministry of Education for Celtological studies in Ireland . There he was first employed at the National Museum in Dublin , then employed by the Irish Folklore Commission. After returning to Germany , he completed his habilitation in 1941 with Ludwig Mühlhausen , in the same year he was obliged to work in the Foreign Office , where he was entrusted with the management of the Irish editorial office of the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft .

In 1948 Hans Hartmann received his habilitation for comparative linguistics at the University of Göttingen . In 1953 he took over the chair of comparative linguistics at the University of Hamburg, succeeding Ernst Fraenkel, and taught there until his retirement in 1974. Hartmann had been a contributor to the magazine for Celtic philology since 1970 , where he worked with Heinrich from 1972 to 1979 Wagner and Karl Horst Schmidt as co-editors.

Publications

  • Studies on the stress of the adjective in Russian. Dissertation , printed by C. Schulze & Co., Graefenhainichen, 1936.
  • About illness, death and the afterlife in Ireland. I. Illness and Fairy Rapture. Habilitation thesis Niemeyer, Halle, 1942.
  • The cult of the dead in Ireland; a contribution to the religion of the Indo-Europeans. C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1952.
  • The passive. A study of the intellectual history of the Celts, Italians and Aryans. C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1954.

literature

  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who?: The German Who's Who, Volume 18, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1975. ISBN 3-797-30267-3 , p. 369.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , Volume 1, p. 1357.
  • Arndt Wigger: Obituary for Hans Hartmann. In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie Volume 53 (2003), pp. 259-266.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Celtologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüstringen near Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2000