Heinz Kronasser

Heinz Kronasser (born February 24, 1913 in Marburg an der Drau ; † March 24, 1968 near Lipovica near Leskovac ) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist .

Life

At the age of six Kronasser came from his place of birth Marburg an der Drau to Graz , where he attended elementary school and the academic high school.

After graduating from high school , he went to the University of Vienna , where he studied a. a. with Paul Kretschmer , Erich Frauwallner , Alfred Kappelmacher , Ludwig Radermacher , Karl Prinz and Josef Mesk . In addition to the Greek he learned at school , he also acquired knowledge of Sanskrit , Hebrew and standard Chinese . He graduated in 1937 with the promotion of Dr. phil. at the University of Graz .

A year later he passed the examination for the teaching degree for Latin and Greek and was employed at the II State High School in Graz.

After Austria was annexed to the German Empire , Kronasser was first transferred to Knittelfeld and then to Leoben . From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 until the end of the war in 1945 he served in a news agency . After a short Soviet imprisonment and a stay with relatives of his wife, he resumed his post as a high school teacher in 1945 .

In the summer semester of 1952 , Kronasser completed his habilitation and was confirmed as a private lecturer on August 16, 1952. A year later he was appointed to the professorship for Linguistics at the University of Vienna , succeeding William Havers and Paul Kretschmer . In 1953 he became an associate professor there, and in 1959 a full professor .

In 1960 he was elected a corresponding member, and in 1962 a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1963, Kronasser followed a call to the Indo-European chair at the University of Würzburg and became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Germany.

In 1967 Kronasser's wife died after a long illness.

Heinz Kronasser and his 23-year-old daughter Hilde had a fatal accident on March 24, 1968 when his car collided head- on with an oncoming bus on the way home from a vacation in Greece in Yugoslavia near Lipovica near Leskovac . Kronasser and his daughter died instantly.

Works (selection)

• 1956 Comparative theory of sounds and forms in Hittite . Heidelberg: winter.
• 1962 Autographed biographical data with signature. 1 sheet. 1 page. Written on October 13, 1962. (Austrian National Library)
• 1963 The resettlement of the black god. The Hittite ritual Kub XXIX 4 (of Ulippi) . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau.
• 1966 Etymology of the Hittite language . Multi-volume work. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
• Etymology of the Hittite language * 2 volumes (complete) * 1: On the writing and sound of the Hittite language * 2: Word formation of the Hittite language * 2 Detailed indices for volume 1.
• 1968 Handbook of Semasiology. Brief introduction to the history, problems and terminology of the theory of meaning . Heidelberg: winter.

literature

• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1969). "Heinz Kronasser". Obituary. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.). Almanac for 1968 . Born 118. Vienna / Cologne / Graz: Hermann Böhlaus successor / commission publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Pp. 348-359.
• Neu, Erich (1982). "Heinz Kronasser in memory". In: Neu, Erich (ed.). Investigationes Philologicae et Comparativae. Commemorative letter for Heinz Kronasser . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. S. XVII-XIX.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1969). "Heinz Kronasser". Obituary. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.). Almanac for 1968 . Born 118. Vienna / Cologne / Graz: Hermann Böhlaus successor / commission publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Pp. 348-359.