Hans Sauer (English studies)

Hans Sauer (born September 9, 1946 in Ingolstadt ) is a German Anglist .

Life

Sauer studied English, Latin and Middle Latin at the University of Munich from 1967 to 1975 . In between he worked as an assistant teacher in Bolton ( Lancashire , 1969/1970) and as a lecturer at Westfield College in London (1973/1974). In 1972 he passed the first state examination in Munich. He achieved his doctorate in 1974 with an edition of the Old English translations of the Latin script Theodulfi Capitula in England . In the following year he was employed as an assistant at the Institute for English Philology at the University of Munich. After his habilitation with the writing Nominalkomposita in early Middle English: with Outlook on the history of the English nominal composition (1986) he was promoted to senior assistant.

In 1989, Sauer accepted a position as full professor for English at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1993 he moved to the TU Dresden , in 1997 he went back to Munich and took the chair for historical linguistics at the Institute for English Philology.

literature

• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 815.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Sauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Sauer at the Institute for English Philology at LMU Munich