Hartmut Katz

Hartmut Katz (born July 9, 1943 in Stuttgart ; † September 26, 1996 in Munich ) was a German Finnougrist , Uralist , Samoyedist and Indo-Europeanist .

life and work

Katz studied from 1962 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, first classical philology , then Indo-European studies with Wilhelm Wissmann , Indology with Helmut Hoffmann (1912–1992) and Hittite studies with Annelies Kammenhuber . In 1965 he took a year of Finno-Ugrist private lessons in Dublin with Ernst Lewy , who died shortly afterwards and whose Jungrammatic legacy he continued. Back in Munich, he studied Finno-Ugric Studies with Gerhard Ganschow (* 1923), a student of Wolfgang Steinitz , and spent time studying in Turku and Budapest . He received his doctorate in Munich with the dissertation Generative Phonology and Phonological Language Groups of Ostyak and Samoyed (Fink, Munich 1975) and was an assistant at the University of Vienna from 1976 to 1978 . As an academic councilor in Munich, he completed his habilitation there in 1986 with the text Studies on the older Indo-Iranian loanwords in the Uralic languages (from the estate of Paul Widmer, Winter, Heidelberg 2002). In the winter semester 1989/1990 he took over the chair. In 1996 he died of cancer at the age of 53. His scientific reputation was honored with a commemorative publication in 2001.

Works

• Selcupica . 4 vols. Munich 1975–1988.
  • 1: Materials from the Tym. 1975.
  • 2: Archbishop Makarijs "Besědy ob istinnom bogě i istinnoj věrě na narěčii obskich ostjakov" from 1900. 1976.
  • 3: Castrén's Northern Selkupian songs. 1986.
  • 4: The fairy tales in Grigorovski's Azbuka. Transcription, translation, commentary. 1988.
• Selkupic sources. A reader . Association of Austrian Scientific Societies, Vienna 1979.
• (Ed.) Ernst Lewy: Contributions to the customer of the Tscheremissischen 3rd Tscheremissisches dictionary . Fink, Munich 1981.
• Trees and Corpsion. For the treatment of consonant clusters in the primitive Germanic loanwords of Baltic Finnish . Innsbruck 1990.

Posthumously

• (Ed. With Eugen Helimski ) Gerhard F. Mueller: News about peoples of Siberia (1736–1742) . Hamburg 2003.
• Small fonts . Hempen, Bremen 2007.

literature

• Strange and own. Studies on the grammar and vocabulary of Ural and Indo-European, in memoriam Hartmut Katz. Edited by Heiner Eichner , Peter Arnold Mumm , Oswald Panagl and Eberhard Winkler. Praesens, Vienna 2001.
• Barbara Wehr : “Description of yourself as a Romanist”. In: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Hrsg.): Romance studies as a passion. Great moments in recent specialist history IV. LIT, Münster 2015, pp. 395–396.

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