Hugo Moser

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Hugo Leonhard Moser (born June 19, 1909 in Esslingen am Neckar , † March 22, 1989 in Bonn ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

Hugo Moser, son of the post office clerk Leonhard Emmert, who died before his birth, and the cook Luise Moser (1883–1962), graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Esslingen and then studied philosophy , German, Romance studies and English in Tübingen . After semesters abroad in England and at the Sorbonne , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . Subsequently, he worked as a high school teacher in Stuttgart . He also taught there at the higher commercial school.

During the Second World War , Moser did military service, after which he was taken prisoner. In 1947 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen, supported by Hermann Schneider . He began his academic career in the same year as a lecturer at the TH Stuttgart , followed by professorships in Nijmegen from 1954, Saarbrücken from 1956 and Bonn from 1959, where he also held the rectorate in the 1963/64 academic year . In 1986 Hugo Moser and his wife Hildegard founded the Hugo Moser Foundation, which promotes German studies and German studies offspring. Every two years it awards the Hugo Moser Prize for German Linguistics. His academic students included a. Hermann Bausinger , Klaus Brinker , Ulrich Engel , Manfred W. Hellman , Siegfried Jäger , Manfred Kaempfert and Ernest Hess-Lüttich .

Moser headed the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim , which he co-founded , was co-editor of numerous Germanistic journals, including German Studies, the Acting Word and the Journal for German Philology and, since 1977, has worked with Helmut Tervooren on Des Minnesangs Frühling . The main focus of his academic work was the sociology of language and the history of language and literature, especially in medieval German literature .

From 1962 to 1964 Moser chaired the German Association of Germanists . In 1964 he was awarded the Konrad Duden Prize of the city of Mannheim, in 1976 the Great Cross of Merit and in 1986 the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . Moser was accepted as a corresponding member of the academies in Lund and Gent and received honorary doctorates from the universities of Innsbruck , Lund and Jyväskylä .

Publications (selection)

  • Swabian dialect and custom in Sathmar. Reinhardt, Munich 1937.
  • Folk songs of the Sathmar Swabians with their wise men. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1943.
  • German language history. With an introduction to questions of language. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1950, 6th, revised edition 1969.
  • Uhland's Swabian legends and German folklore research of the Romantic period. Mohr, Tübingen 1950.
  • Full Swabian, Urban Swabian and Lower Alemannic in Upper Swabia, which has since been in Württemberg. Moritz Schauenburg, Lahr / Black Forest 1954.
  • Middle language classes as sources of the high German language. A historical-sociological consideration. Dekker & van de Vegt, Nijmegen / Utrecht 1955.
  • Linguistic consequences of the political division of Germany (= active word. Supplement. 3, ISSN  0512-0152 ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1962.
  • To compensate for forms in today's high-level German. In: Werner Betz , Evelyn S. Coleman, Kenneth Northcott (Eds.): Taylor Starck. Festschrift. 1964. Mouton & Co., The Hague et al. 1964, pp. 91-101.
  • with Joseph Müller-Blattau : German songs of the Middle Ages from Walther von der Vogelweide to the Lochamer songbook. Texts and melodies. Small study edition. Klett, Stuttgart 1968.
  • as ed. with Hugo Stopp: Grammar of Early New High German. Contributions to phonetics and forms. Heidelberg 1970 ff.
  • Karl Simrock : University teacher and poet, Germanist and innovator of “folk poetry” and older “national literature”. A piece of literary, educational and scientific history of the 19th century. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1976.
  • Studies on spatial and social forms of the German language in the past and present. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1979.

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SURNAME Moser, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moser, Hugo Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1989
Place of death Bonn