Hugo Steger

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Hugo Steger (born April 18, 1929 in Stein near Nuremberg; † April 4, 2011 in Stegen ) was a German linguist and literary scholar .

Life

After studying German , history , geography , art history and economics in Bamberg, Erlangen and Würzburg , he passed the state exams in German, history and geography in 1953 . In 1958 he received his doctorate for a study on medieval images of King David. phil. (with Siegfried Beyschlag ) in Erlangen, where he also completed his habilitation in 1964 . In 1964 he moved to Münster for a short time before accepting a full professorship in Kiel in 1964/65 . In 1968 he took over the Freiburg chair for Germanic and German Philology, which he held until his retirement in 1997. He was director of the German seminar and the institute for historical regional studies at the University of Freiburg .

Hugo Steger dealt with various questions in the areas of dialectology , medieval studies and sociolinguistics as well as onomatology and the history of concepts. The focus of his scientific research was on the language and text varieties of German. He is considered to be one of the founders of text linguistics and research into contemporary oral German. Steger was known through his many years of activity as head of the Freiburg research center "Spoken German", a branch of the Mannheim Institute for German Language , of which he was a member of the board of trustees . He was significantly involved in the creation of the Southwest German Language Atlas ; he was co-editor of the series of handbooks on language and communication research. He worked as a visiting professor at the universities in Basel , São Paulo and Madison / Wisc .

Hugo Steger died on April 4, 2011 in Stegen-Wittental.

Honors

In 1962 Hugo Steger received the City of Nuremberg's Culture Prize , and in 1982 the Duden Prize of the City of Mannheim .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Prof. Hugo Steger ( memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), German Seminar, University of Freiburg on April 5, 2011. Accessed on April 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Steger, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stein near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2011
Place of death Stegen -Wittental