Ilpo Tapani Piirainen
Ilpo Tapani Piirainen (born November 15, 1941 in Kiihtelysvaara in North Karelia / Finland; † August 26, 2012 in Steinfurt ) was a Finnish German studies specialist and university professor.
Live and act
Piirainen began studying German, English, aesthetics and education at the University of Helsinki in 1959 after graduating from high school . In 1963 he originally came to Münster for two semesters, but continued to work as a research assistant and also wrote his dissertation for general linguistics here. After a scholarship at the University of Helsinki, he completed his habilitation at the University of Helsinki. While on a scholarship at Charles University in Prague, he learned about the numerous German-language texts in the Slovak archives from the period between the 14th and 18th centuries. Since then, in 1969, he made it his life's work to examine the early modern writing languages of these texts. He has published over 30 books and numerous articles on this research. In 1967 he married Elisabeth Dörrie .
From 1972 to 2006 he was professor for German language and literature and their didactics, initially at the University of Education and from 1980 at the German Institute of the University of Münster . He also taught as an honorary professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2006 to 2009 Piirainen worked at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Trnava as a full professor at the Department of German Studies. In addition to his main focus of research in Slovakia, Piirainen has researched and taught for decades in other countries such as Russia , China and Poland as well as in Finland.
Awards
- 2001 Ľudovít-Štúr gold medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
- In 2003 he received a Polish State Prize for the book Bilingual City Books in Oppen / Opole
- 2005 Frantisek Sasinek gold medal for the Slovak archives.
- 2011 honorary doctorate from Trnava University.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slovak honorary doctorate for Finnish Germanists on Radio Slovakia International on March 23, 2011, accessed on March 30, 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piirainen, Ilpo Tapani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish German studies and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiihtelysvaara in North Karelia / Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 2012 |
| Place of death | Steinfurt |