Hans Holm Bielfeldt

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Hans Holm Bielfeldt (born March 6, 1907 in Lübeck ; † September 30, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German philologist , Slavist and Germanist who wrote numerous works and specialist books on Slavic languages and dictionaries .

Life

After graduating from high school, Bielfeldt studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and completed this course in 1933 at the University's Slavic Institute with a doctorate with a dissertation on the theory of phonetics in German loanwords in Upper Sorbian . In 1940 he joined the NSDAP .

After the end of the Second World War , Fritz Rücker , the Brandenburg Minister for National Education, Science and Art of the State of Brandenburg , appointed him full professor for Slavic Studies at the General Science Faculty of the Brandenburg State University with effect from January 1, 1949. At that time the Bielfeldt family still lived in West Berlin .

He later settled in the GDR and in 1950 took over a professorship for Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he taught until his retirement . In addition, Bielfeldt was director of the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Berlin Academy of Sciences between 1951 and 1969.

In 1955 he presented a standard work with his 24,000-headword Russian dictionary: Russian – German , which was last published in 1990 in its 35th edition. Bielfeldt had taken over the management and editing of the large dictionary (around 60,000 headwords) published by Akademie-Verlag Berlin in 1958. This work, which largely meets academic standards, also saw many editions. For the first time, both dictionaries contain a detailed grammatical reference system for Russian with corresponding overviews, which makes all relevant grammatical information (including changes of accent in inflection) accessible to the user for every keyword. In 1967 the Romanist Werner Krauss published the commemorative publication Slavic-German interrelationships in language, literature and culture in his honor .

On the occasion of his 70th and 80th birthdays, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , of which he had been a full member since 1953, also published the Festschrift Slawistik in der DDR (1977) and, posthumously, in 1988 on the history of Slavic Studies in Berlin: the work of Hans Holm Bielfeldt dedicated out. In 1961 he received the national prize of the GDR 1st class as a collective and in 1960 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

He found his final resting place in the Grünau forest cemetery in field J IV / 1.

more publishments

  • The sources of the old Czech Alexandreis , Berlin 1951
  • Declining dictionary of the contemporary Russian language , Berlin 1958
  • Old Slavic Grammar: Introduction to the Slavic Languages , Halle 1961
  • The historical structure of the stock of Slavic words in German , Berlin 1963
  • Contributions to the history of Slavic studies , Berlin 1964
  • The borrowings from the various Slavic languages ​​in the vocabulary of the New High German written language , Berlin 1965
  • Slavic contributions from the German Democratic Republic on the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution , Berlin 1967
  • On the structure of the Sorbian etymology , Berlin 1977
  • The Slavic Words in German: Selected Writings 1950 - 1978 , Leipzig 1982
  • Co-author in: Joachim Herrmann (Ed.) The Slavs in Germany: History and culture of the Slavic tribes west of Oder and Neisse from the 6th to 12th centuries , new edition, Berlin 1985

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 41.
  2. ^ Bielfeldt, HH: Memories of the beginning of the Brandenburg State University and its Slavic Institute . In: University of Education Potsdam. Scientific journal, year 12/1968; Issue 1 pp. (99-101) 101 i. V. m. P. 99; Social and Linguistic Series
personal data
SURNAME Bielfeldt, Hans Holm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, Slavist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1987
Place of death Berlin