Hildegard Höftmann

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Hildegard Höftmann (born October 22, 1927 ) is a German Africanist and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Höftmann initially studied ethnology with Diedrich Westermann at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1957 she became the assistant to his successor Ernst Dammann , who led her to linguistics . After he left the GDR in 1962, she took over his field of work, researching and teaching during the GDR and after reunification in the field of Bantu languages and other African language families. She became a lecturer in linguistics under the party-compliant head of African studies Helmuth Stoecker . In the 1970s she was in Benin several times to research the Fon language . From 1979 to 1982 she was visiting professor in Cotonou . Until her retirement in 1988 she worked in language research, among others together with Irmtraud Herms . Even after that she continued to work. On the occasion of her 80th birthday in 2007, the commemorative publication African Horizons: A Life for Science was published by her student Catherine Griefenow-Mewis .

Fonts

  • Investigation of the integration of modern terms in Bantu languages, represented by Swahili , Zulu and Herero (dissertation 1961)
  • Swahili-German Dictionary (1963, 1967)
  • The structure of Lelemi language (1971)
  • For the analysis and representation of African languages, represented by the Fon language (Benin, habilitation thesis 1977)
  • Swahili-German Dictionary (1979)
  • Grammar des Fon (1993) ISBN 978-3-324-00333-9
  • with Irmtraud Herms: Langenscheidts Concise Dictionary Swahili-Deutsch (2000) ISBN 978-3-89645-340-2
  • Dictionnaire Français-Fon (West African Studies Vol. 35; 2003, 2012) ISBN 978-3-89645-471-3

literature

  • African Horizons: Studies of Languages, Cultures, and History. A life for science, Festschrift, ed. by Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, Harrassowitz, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-447-05601-4

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Catherine Griefenow-Mewis: African horizons: studies of languages, cultures and history . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05601-4 ( google.de [accessed on July 26, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Höftmann, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1927