Heinrich Junker (linguist)
Heinrich FJ Junker (born March 26, 1889 in Offenbach am Main ; † April 3, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German orientalist , linguist and professor in Leipzig and at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Life
After studying at the universities of Strasbourg and casting took place in 1911, the promotion of Dr. phil. in Iranian language and literature at the University of Heidelberg and in 1912 the habilitation at the University of Gießen with Christian Bartholomae . Junker stayed there from 1912 to 1919 as a private lecturer. From 1919 to 1923 he was ao. Professor at the University of Hamburg and there from 1923 to 1926 o. Professor From 1926 to 1945 he was Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Leipzig and, after 1935, head of the Institute for African Languages .
With the French orientalist Robert Gauthiot (1876-1916) Junker undertook a study trip in 1913 to the Serafshan Valley in Central Asia, where the Yaghnobi people live. During the First World War, Junker served as an interpreter in prisoner-of-war camps. In November 1933, Junker signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . From May 1933 until leaving or being expelled in 1939, he was a member of the NSDAP . Before 1933 he had belonged to a Masonic lodge .
During the Second World War he worked since 1942 in the group Life Powers and Beings of Indo-Europeanism in the war effort of the humanities . His topic was: "Aryan Basics in Life and Faith of Ancient Iran".
After the end of the war, Junker lost his professorship in Leipzig for political reasons in 1946 and was retired . But from 1951 Junker was director of the Middle East Institute and head of the Korean department of the East Asian Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin. He also wrote textbooks for the Korean language . His Persian-German dictionary is published to this day.
From 1929 to 1948 Junker was a full member of the philological and historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and chairman of the advisory board for linguistics in the GDR Ministry for Higher and Technical Schools . In 1960 he was honored as an outstanding scientist of the people in the GDR .
Publications (selection)
- with Bozorg Alavi : Persian-German dictionary. Leipzig 1965 etc.
- (Mithrsg.) History of Iranian Literature , Leipzig 1959
- (Ed.) Philosophical Reading Book , Heidelberg 1948.
- Korean Studies , Berlin (East) 1955.
- (Ed.) Old Korean Pictures. Landscapes and Folk Life , Leipzig 1958.
- (Ed.) Archive for the entire phonetics , Berlin 1937–1945.
- Aryan research. Yaghnobi Studies . Vol. 1: The linguistic structure of the Yaghnōb Valley , Leipzig 1930.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Junker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich Junker in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Article in Encyclopædia Iranica
Individual evidence
- ↑ Note in the article in the Encyclopædia Iranica
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 293.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Junker, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Junker, Heinrich FJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd April 1970 |
| Place of death | Berlin |