Heimo Reinitzer

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Heimo Reinitzer (born September 24, 1943 in Graz ) is an Austrian Germanist living in Germany . Until 2008 he was Professor of Older German Literature Studies at the University of Hamburg and Scientific Director of the German Bible Archives (until 2005). From 2006 to 2013 he was the founding president of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .

Life

Reinitzer comes from a family of academics. His grandfather Friedrich Reinitzer was the discoverer of liquid crystals . His older sister is the librarian Sigrid Reinitzer . Heimo Reinitzer studied from 1961 German , history and philosophy at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz and was established in 1967 with a thesis on literary criticism in the Middle Ages to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1964 to 1966 he was a research assistant at the German Institute of the University of Graz ; 1967/1968 scientific assistant at the universities of Graz, Cologne and Hamburg . In 1971 he was appointed Scientific Senior Councilor at the University of Hamburg. In 1979 Heimo Reinitzer took over the scientific management of the German Bible Archive, which was founded in 1930 to research the history of the impact of the Bible . He was committed to the conceptual realignment of the German Bible Archive and was able to build it into a recognized institution over the next 25 years, which also cooperated internationally with other universities, libraries, scientists and students in exhibitions, conferences and publications. From 1981 to 1988 he worked on indexing the biblical collection of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel .

In 1982 Heimo Reinitzer was appointed to a professorship for older German literary studies at the Institute for German Studies I at the University of Hamburg, which he held until 2008.

In 2006 he was elected the first president of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg (founded in 2004) and in 2008 he was confirmed in this office for a further five years. He is the spokesman for the academy working group “Region, Nation, Europe. Characteristics of their identity ”. As Academy President tried Reinitzer in February 2013, affect one at the University of Dusseldorf performed procedure for the withdrawal of the doctoral degree by Annette Schavan in favor of the then Minister of Science to take.

Heimo Reinitzer has presented numerous publications, in particular on the history of the impact of the Bible in text and image testimony in German-speaking countries, on the relationship between text and image and on medieval semantics. Another focus is on editing and commenting on texts. Since 1973 he has given numerous lectures at home and abroad and has written a number of reports for foundations (including the Volkswagen Foundation , Hamburg Scientific Foundation ).

Offices, Memberships, and Activities

Reinitzer was spokesman for the Linguistics Department at the University of Hamburg from 1989 to 1993, and from 1990 to 1993 a member of the Academic Senate and the Council of the University of Hamburg. From 1999 to 2003 he was Managing Director of the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg. Since 1990 he has been an expert on manuscripts and old prints at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

From 1995 to 2010 Reinitzer was chairman of the management commission for the Hamburg office of the Goethe dictionary , from 1998 to 2010 a member of the joint commission of the Berlin-Brandenburg , Göttingen and Heidelberg Academies of Sciences for the Goethe dictionary.

From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the archive policy commission of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

From 1993 to 2005 he was a member of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation and has been a member of the Susanne and Michael Liebelt Foundation since 1996 . From 2002 to 2010 he was chairman of the Hamburg University Foundation and a member of the board of the Dähn Foundation . Since 2010 he has been managing director of the Hamburg Foundation for Science, Development and Culture Helmut and Hanneslore Greve . He is a member of the advisory board of the Bible and German Culture Foundation and the Luther Society .

From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the church council of Sankt Jacobi Hamburg and influenced the design of the church and the restoration of the Schnitger organ . He belongs to the group of experts for the organ in St. Michael in Hildesheim .

Awards and honors

Publications (selection)

  • History of German literary criticism in the Middle Ages. Phil. Diss. (Mach.) Graz 1966.
  • as ed. with Wolfgang Harms : Natural history and allegorical interpretation of nature. Aspects of the world view between the 13th and 19th centuries. Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1980 (= Mikrokosmos. Volume 7).
  • Biblia German. Luther's translation of the Bible and its tradition (exhibition catalog of the Herzog August Bibliothek 40), Wolfenbüttel and Hamburg 1983.
  • with Walter Sparn as editor: Belated Orthodoxy: About D. Johann Melchior Goeze (1717–1786) . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02976-5 . (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen Vol. 45, 1989).
  • Mauritius from Craûn. Commentary (Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature, Supplement 2), Stuttgart 1999.
  • Text - image - music. To the organ player in the painter Nolten. For Dietrich Gerhardt on February 11, 2001. Presented with an appraisal and list of publications at the meeting on July 13, 2001 (reports from the meetings of the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften eV Hamburg 20/2002, 2), Göttingen 2002.
  • Law and gospel. About a Reformation pictorial theme, tradition, function and impact history. Hamburg 2006.
  • Tapetum Concordiae. Peter Heymans tapestry for Philip I of Pomerania and the tradition of the pulpits carried by Moses (Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Volume 1), Berlin - Boston 2012.
  • Germany and Europe: Is What Belongs Together Growing Together? (Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg Volume 3), Berlin - Boston 2013.

family

Heimo Reinitzer is a grandson of the Austrian botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer and a great-nephew of the Austrian chemist Benjamin Reinitzer ; The Prague businessman and mountaineer Johann Stüdl is one of his ancestors . His sister is the librarian Sigrid Reinitzer .

The sportsman

Heimo Reinitzer was ten-time Austrian champion in discus throwing and shot put (1963–1972); he took part in two European Athletics Championships ( Budapest 1966 , Helsinki 1971), the Student World Championships in Budapest (1965) and the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 and in Munich in 1972 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Bible Archive
  2. ↑ Schavan's jubilant professors
  3. ^ Final report of the dean
  4. ↑ Heimo Reinitzer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Reinitzer, Heimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist, President of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz