Herbert Voitl

Herbert Voitl (born July 11, 1925 in Žatec (German Saaz); † October 25, 2011 in Erlangen ) was a German English scholar and linguist.

life and work

Voitl studied English, German and Romance studies in Hamburg and Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1955 from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with the thesis New Educational Value and Stylistics of Compounds in Shakespeare and was a research assistant in Hamburg until 1965. From 1957 to 1958 he was a British Council Scholar in Oxford. From 1965 to 1993 Voitl was full professor of English philology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , from 1977 to 1979 also dean.

Other works

(Ed. With the assistance of Ernst Burgschmidt and Dieter Götz): The practical language part of the English studies course , Erlangen 1970
(Ed.): The study of the personal names of the British Isles. Proceedings of a working conference at Erlangen, 21.-24. September 1975 , Erlangen 1976

literature

Ernst Burgschmidt / Christopher Perkins, EB-Fehlererkartei English 3. Phraseology: Collocations - Phraseme - Idioms. Festgabe for Herbert Voitl on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 2 volumes, Braunschweig 1985

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personal data
SURNAME	Voitl, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German English and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Žatec
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 2011
Place of death	gain