Hans Wellmann (Linguist)

Hans Wellmann (born June 3, 1936 in Suttorf , Lower Saxony , † March 1, 2012 near Augsburg ) was a German linguist and Germanist .

Life

After graduating from the Max Planck Gymnasium in Bielefeld , he studied chemistry in Würzburg from 1956 to 1958 , then until 1963 in Bonn linguistics , literary studies , philosophy and geography . In 1963 and 1964 he was a research assistant for geography at RWTH Aachen University , before he worked as an assistant for German studies in Bonn until 1967, when he did his doctorate on the subject of collectives and collective words in German .

After participating in research projects at the Institute for German Language and accepting a teaching position at the University of Innsbruck , he completed his habilitation there in 1976. In the same year he became a full professor for German linguistics at the University of Osnabrück . From 1978 until his retirement in 2004 he was full professor for German linguistics at the University of Augsburg .

Wellmann was the author and editor of numerous publications.

He died on March 1, 2012.

Collectives and collective words in German, 1969
German word formation - Part 2: The noun, 1975
Synchronous and diachronic aspects of word formation in German, 1993
Grammar, vocabulary and forms of poetry in the stylistic analysis of selected texts, 1998

personal data
SURNAME	Wellmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German linguist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Suttorf (Neustadt am Rübenberge)
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 2012
Place of death	augsburg