Heinrich Hettrich

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Heinrich Hettrich (born October 8, 1947 in Saarbrücken-Scheidt ; † June 9, 2020 ) was a German Indo-Europeanist .

Life

He put 1966 in St. Ingbert the High School from. He then studied comparative Indo-European linguistics, classical philology , Indo- Iranian and older German at the Saarland University and the University of Gießen . In 1971 he obtained his Magister Artium at Saarland University, where he also received his doctorate three years later . In 1984 he completed his habilitation in Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Munich . After teaching at the Universities of Salzburg and Zurich and holding a C4 professorship for Comparative Linguistics at the University of Marburg , he was offered a position in Würzburg . Since 1989 he has been professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Würzburg , which awarded the Bene Merenti Gold Medal in 2014 . In his last term of office as dean , he was involved in merging the Philosophical Faculties I and II as well as the Faculty of Geosciences to form the new Philosophical Faculty.

From 1996 to 2008 he was on the board of the Indo-European Society and editor of the society journal Kratylos . His research areas were comparisons of ancient Indo-European languages ​​such as Vedic Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, especially in the area of ​​syntax, German studies and Indo-European culture.

Fonts (selection)

  • Context and aspect in the ancient Greek prose Herodotus (= journal for comparative linguistic research . Supplement 25). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-525-26213-2 (also dissertation, Saarbrücken 1974).
  • Studies on hypotaxe in Vedic (= studies on Indo-European linguistics and cultural studies. NF. Volume 4). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1988, ISBN 90-04-16501-0 (also habilitation thesis, Munich 1984).
  • The agent in passive clauses in ancient Indo-European languages (= news of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Year 1990, number 2). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, OCLC 476317750 .
  • as editor with Thomas Oberlies : Hanns Oertel : Kleine Schriften (= Glasenapp Foundation. Volume 32). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-05417-0 .
  • as editor with Peter-Arnold Mumm and Wolfgang Hock : Verba et structurae. Festschrift for Klaus Strunk on his 65th birthday (= Innsbruck contributions to linguistics. Volume 83). Inst. Für Sprachwiss., Innsbruck 1995, ISBN 3-85124-653-5 .
  • as editor: Indo-European Syntax. Questions and Perspectives . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-89500-294-1 .
  • as editor with Norbert Oettinger , Peter-Arnold Mumm and Wolfgang Hock: Klaus Strunk: Kleine Schriften (= Innsbruck contributions to linguistics. Volume 120). Inst. For Languages ​​and Literatures, Dept. Linguistics, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-85124-703-5 .
  • as editor with Astrid van Nahl : Günter Neumann : Name studies for Old Germanic (= supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 59). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020100-0 .
  • with Karin Stüber : Infinitive constructions in Rgveda and Homer (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Volume 2018.2). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-515-12097-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of Heinrich Hettrich | Saarbruecker-Zeitung.Trauer.de. Retrieved June 18, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hettrich, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken-Scheidt
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2020