Ilse Kunert

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Ilse Kunert (born Kamm , born March 12, 1923 in Bydgoszcz ; † May 22, 2016 in Munich ) was a German Slavic scholar and linguist .

Kunert was born in Bydgoszcz and went to school in Gdansk. She began studying Slavic Studies and Eastern European History during the war and continued this later in Munich. In 1955 she did her doctorate there under Alois Schmaus on Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and became Erwin Koschmieder's assistant . In 1967 she completed her habilitation, also in Munich, on "Processes of change and development tendencies in today's Russian". In 1968 she was appointed full professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Tübingen , where she taught until her retirement in 1990.

From 1971 to 1979 she was the first woman to be Vice-Rector of the University of Tübingen, and from 1972 to 1979 she was Vice-President of the West German Rectors' Conference .

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  • Jochen Raecke : Ilse Kunert on her 80th birthday. In: Bulletin of German Slavistics 10, 2004, pp. 5-7.