Helmut Lüdtke

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Helmut Lüdtke (born November 26, 1926 in Osnabrück , † April 27, 2010 in Kiel ) was a German Lusitanist and Romanist . The linguist taught in Freiburg , Berlin and Kiel.

Life

Helmut Lüdtke spent his school days in Osnabrück until he graduated from high school. He then studied Romance languages, English and general linguistics at the universities of Cologne (with Fritz Schalk and Karl Karstien), Bonn (with Heinrich Lausberg ) and Lisbon (with Luis F. Lindlay Cintra). His doctorate at the University of Bonn (1952) was entitled The Latin-Romance Vocalism in Structural Show (published by T. The structural development of Romance vocalism, Bonn 1956, Ann Arbor 1980). The first publications were in standard Portuguese. In 1952 in the Boletim de Filologia (Lisbon) he presented two essays in Portuguese on the phonematic system of Portuguese, which have become a fundamental building block for any introduction to Portuguese linguistics and phonematics. Lüdtke worked from 1952 to 1956 in Venice as a lecturer for the DAAD . He then worked on the major Romance projects of the etymological dictionaries REW and FEW, which were published in Bonn, Münster and Basel . Lüdtke's habilitation took place in Basel in 1963 with the script Die Mundarten Lukaniens . He then worked for three semesters as a private lecturer in Basel and then accepted a position at the University of Freiburg. Here he taught (as the successor to Rudolf Hallig ) from 1965 to 1969 Romance linguistics. During this time his work History of Romance Vocabulary was written . He taught at the Technical University of Berlin for seven years before accepting an appointment at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where from 1976 to 1992 he treated all Romance languages ​​as a linguist, including those he described as minority or minor languages. such as Maltese, Aragonese, Leonese-Asturian or Galician. Phonology, lexicology and syntax were also among his subjects.

Honors

The University of Potsdam awarded Helmut Lüdtke the Doctor honoris causa on January 11, 2002.

Works (selection)

  • Il sistema consonantico del sardo logudorese , Louvain 1953
  • History of the Romance Vocabulary , 2 volumes, Freiburg 1968 (Spanish: Madrid 1974)
  • Lucania , Pisa 1979 (Profilo dei dialetti italiani 17)
  • (Ed.) Communication-theoretical basics of language change , Berlin 1980
  • Romance linguistics in Germany and Austria: a paradigmatic survey, in: Trends in Romance linguistics and philology . Vol. 4: National and regional trends in Romance linguistics and philology, The Hague 1982, pp. 173-221
  • Grammatical change, in: Soziolinguistik , ed. by Ulrich Ammon, 2nd half volume, Berlin [a. a.] 1988, pp. 1632-1642; 2nd edition, Berlin / New York 2005, pp. 1727–1737
  • (Ed.) (Together with Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeld) Linguistica contrastiva. German versus Portuguese, Spanish, French , Tübingen 1996
  • Le changement linguistique, in: Kontaktlinguistik , ed. by Hans Goebl u. a. (HSK 12.1), Berlin / New York 1996, pp. 526-541
  • The origin of the Romance languages. A history of linguistic communication , Kiel 2005, 2nd, verm. And verb. Edition Kiel 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Essays by Lüdtke
  2. ↑ Obituary for Helmut Lüdtke ( memento of the original from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.romanistik.de
  3. ^ Knowledge and change of languages: Contributions to the Potsdam honorary doctorate for Helmut Lüdtke - Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics, Vol. 507, 2008

literature

  • Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeld, Andreas Harder (ed.): Language change and language history. Festschrift for Helmut Lüdtke on his 65th birthday , Tübingen 1993 (with list of publications)
  • Helmut Lüdtke: Marseille, Versailles, Birmingham, in: Paths in linguistics. Forty-four autobiographical accounts. Festschrift for Mario Wandruszka, Tübingen 1991, pp. 146–150
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : 'Devoured by the vortex of events'. German Romance Studies in the 'Third Reich' Frankfurt a. M. 2000, p. 64.

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personal data
SURNAME Lüdtke, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lusitanist and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2010
Place of death Kiel