Hans Schottmann

Hans Schottmann (born January 1, 1932 in Breslau ) is a German Germanic and Scandinavian medievalist and linguist . He is an emeritus professor for Nordic studies and was director of the institute for Nordic philology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

In Minden / Westphalia, Schottmann passed his Abitur in 1952 and then took up a degree in German studies in Bonn until 1958 (with Werner Betz ), as well as Latin philology and classical archeology. There he became a metaphor and comparison in the language of Friedrich Hölderlin in 1958 with a new Germanist work . PhD. From the summer semester of 1958, he was employed for two years as a lecturer at Uppsala University , which resulted in his scientific focus on Scandinavian studies. After returning in 1960, he took up a position at the LMU Munich as an assistant to Betz at the Nordic Seminar, who had meanwhile been appointed there, was promoted to the Academic Council and in 1970 he received his habilitation there with a thesis The Icelandic Marian Poetry. Investigation of the vernacular Marian poetry of the Middle Ages with the Venia for German and Nordic philology. In the same year he followed the call to the Westphalian Wilhelms University for a full professorship for Nordic and German philology. On March 18, 1971, Schottmann was appointed director of the Nordic seminar. He held the chair and management until his retirement in 1998.

Selected works

Monographs

• Dictionary of Swedish phraseology in subject groups. With Rikke Petersson Münster 1989 (= Münstersche Contributions to German and Nordic Philology 6) Münster 1989.
• The Icelandic Mary Poetry. Investigation of the vernacular Marian poetry of the Middle Ages. Munich 1973 (habilitation thesis).
• Metaphor and comparison in the language of Friedrich Hölderlin. (= Treatises on art, music and literary studies 14) Bonn 1960 [2. Edition 1962, 3rd edition 1970] (dissertation).

Individual contributions

• The Harðar saga Grimkelsssonar. In: Studies on the Icelandic saga. Festschrift Rolf Heller. (= RGA-E ) Berlin u. a. 2000, p. 231ff.
• Strindberg's Till Damascus I and the Swedish Disease of German Literature. In: International Scandinavian and Medieval Studies in Memory of Gerd Wolfgang Weber 2000, p. 435ff.
• Nordic language history and religion / ecclesiastical history II: Christianization. In: The Nordic Languages ​​I. Berlin a. a. 2002, p. 403ff.
• Review: T. Danielsson: Hrafnkels saga eller Fallet med den undflyende traditions. Sagorna om Norges kungar. In: scandinavistik 34, 1, (2004), p. 63f.
• Denmark: literary history. In: Marienlexikon Volume 2, 1989, p. 126f.
• Review: Edith Marold: Kenningkunst. A contribution to the poetics of the scald poetry. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 113, Anzeiger 95 (1984), p. 166ff.
• The construction of the Kormaks saga. In: scandinavistik 12 (1982), p. 22ff.
• Christianity of the Period of Conversion: The Old Norse Literature. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Volume 4, Berlin a. a. 1979, p. 563ff.
• The description of the interference. In: Herbert Kolb et al. (Ed.): Linguistic interference. Festschrift for Werner Betz on his 65th birthday. Tübingen 1977, p. 13ff.
• Gregorius and Grégoire. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 94 (1965), p. 81 ff. Reprint in: Hartmann von Aue. Hans Kuhn, Christoph Cormeau (eds.), Darmstadt 1973, p. 373ff. (= Paths of Research 359).
• Middle High German literature: poetry. In: Ludwig Erich Schmidt (Hrsg.): Kurzer Grundriß der Germanischen Philologie bis 1500 Volume 2. Berlin a. a. 1970, p. 464ff.

Editorships

• Work on Scandinavian Studies, 11th workshop on German-speaking Scandinavian Studies. Munster 1994.
• Contributions to the Saga and Narrative Research working group. In: Work on Scandinavian Studies, 8th Working Conference of Scandinavians in the German-speaking area. (= Texts and studies on German and Scandinavian studies 22) Frankfurt / Main 1989, p. 369ff. (Associate Editor).
• Linguistic interference. Festschrift for Werner Betz on his 65th birthday. Tübingen 1977 (co-editor).
• Münster contributions to German and Nordic philology

Article on the Lexicon of the Middle Ages

• Leiáarvísan. Volume 6, 1991, Col. 1852f.
• Liqueur bride. Volume 5, 1991, Col. 1983.
• Lilja. Volume 5, 1991, Col. 1986.
• Drápa. Volume 3, 1985, Sp. 1367f.
• Eiríksmál. Volume 3, 1985, Col. 1749.
• Egill Skallagrimsson. Volume 3, 1985, Col. 191 lf.
• Einarr Skúlason. Volume 3, 1985, Col. 1730.

literature

• Stig Toftgaard Andersen (Ed.): The topicality of the saga. Festschrift for Hans Schottmann. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes 21) de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999 [Reprint 2012], ISBN 978-3-11-080490-4 ( fee required from de Gruyter ).
  • Ibid: List of publications by Hans Schottmann. P. 263ff.

Web links

• Publications by Hans Schottmann in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii
• Curriculum Vitae (Institute for Nordic Philology / Scandinavian Studies University of Münster)
• Literature by and about Hans Schottmann in the catalog of the German National Library