Henrik Becker

Henrik Becker (born September 7, 1902 in Budapest , † February 10, 1984 in Jena ) was a German linguist .

He studied German at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1923. In 1924 he became a lecturer at the University of Budapest and in 1926 a volunteer assistant at the Linguistics Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 1951 he was appointed professor with teaching assignment for the German language and older German literature and in 1953 professor for German studies in Jena . In 1956 he was appointed director of the Institute for Language Maintenance and Word Research, and in 1968 he retired .

Since 1924 he was in close contact with the Prague linguist circle around Vilém Mathesius . His estate is in the archive of the University of Jena.

obituary

• Liebsch, Helmut (1984): "Henrik Becker in memory." In: Sprachpflege 33 (1984) 6: 84.

Fonts

• The German new word; Leipzig: Rohmkopf; 1933, 105 pp.
• Trutzbüchlein of the Germans, add. by Henrik Becker; Leipzig: Reclam; 1939 76 pp.
• German Linguistics, Part 1: Language Teaching; Leipzig: Reclam 1941, 335 pp.
• The Sprachbund; Leipzig and Berlin: Gerhard Mindt (The Humboldt Library); 1948. 167 pp.
• German language teaching: for vocational schools and for self-study; 2nd edition, edition 1954; Berlin: People and Knowledge; 1957
• Plan for the natural language system; In: Linguistica generalia; 1984
• Style dictionary: [av. ... by the Germanists at the Institute for Language Maintenance and Word Research at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, headed by Henrik Becker]; Leipzig: Bibliogr. Inst., 1966

Essays

Articles in the scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (social and linguistic series) :

• The meaning of the Graalsmäres; 1 (1951/52) 1, 29-30.
• To the old question: epic and drama; 2 (1952/53) 1, 31-34.
• A hundred theses on linguistics; 2 (1952/53) 1, 73-98.
• Basics for the 14th-16th Century; 2 (1952/53) 2, 63-72.
• A peace struggle in the year 507. To the Fredegar stories; 2 (1952/53) 3, 111-116.
• The thought of peace in the old French Roland song; 2 (1952/53) 5: 45-48.
• Zum Waltharius, 2 (1952/53) 5, 65-68.
• Epic questions; 4 (1954/55) 1/2, 1-34.
• The Wartburg War and Heinrich von Ofterdingen; 4 (1954/55) 3/4, 323-326.
• Is Schiller Volks understandable ?; 5 (1955/56) 1, 73-78.
• To the lyric genre; 5 (1955/56) 4/5, 465-489.
• Critical list of names for the Krimhildlied; 5 (1955/56) 6, 709-726.
• Plan of a German dictionary; 5 (1955/56) 6, 727-734.
• Scientific language maintenance; 7 (1957/58) 1, 113-118.
• Judgment and language structure; 7 (1957/58) 2/3, 387-392.
• Schiller's many faces; 8 (1958/59) 4/5, 413-427.
• The minimum level of language teaching; 9 (1959/60) 1/2, 141-159.
• To women's service; 9 (1959/60) 4/5, 449-467.
• Subsystems of school language teaching; 9 (1959/60) 4/5, 469-475.
• What was before the Renaissance ?; 10 (1960/61) 2, 295-300.
• Language maintenance in all subjects; 12 (1963) 2/3, 135-144.
• To the Jassian word list; 14 (1965) 1, 159-161.
• New language teaching; 14 (1965) 1, 163-171.
• The present as the last piece of history; 14 (1965) 3: 455-459.
• To the real Homer; 14 (1965) 3: 509-518.
• Looking for simplicity. A key question of all languages; 1967, 16, 5: 643-651.
• Visualization of word order and word usage; 1967, 16, 5: 723-736.
• Names for all word forms; 21 (1972) 5/6, 753-768.

literature

• Ehlers, Klaas-Hinrich: Structuralism in Der Deutschen Sprachwissenschaft: the reception of the Prague School between 1926 and 1945; Berlin [u. a.]: de Gruyter, 2005. S. 279ff on Becker
• Michael Eckardt: Complete bibliography of the "Scientific Journal" of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GS series) 1951–1990. Jena 2006, ISBN 3-935850-39-5 .

estate

• Henrik Becker's estate

Web links

• Literature by and about Henrik Becker in the catalog of the German National Library