Johannes Erben

Johannes Erben (born January 12, 1925 in Leipzig ) is a German Germanist and linguist .

Johannes Erben studied in Leipzig from 1946, where he received his doctorate under Theodor Frings in 1949 . 1953 followed in Berlin the habilitation at the Humboldt University , where he became professor for German philology in 1954 . In 1964 he was accepted as a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

In 1965 Erben left the GDR and received the chair for German language and literature at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Innsbruck , which he held until 1979. He also led the DFG research project on German word formation at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim . In 1979 Erben moved to Bonn , where he took over the chair for German language and older literature (including Dutch) at the local university and retired in 1990. In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck. In 1992 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Erben made a name for himself as one of the leading dependency grammarians and word formation researchers in the German language.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg (Ed.): Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945–1965. Case studies on institutions, debates, people. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002930-7 , p. 365 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Johannes Erben. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 19, 2015 . 
3. ↑ http://www.uibk.ac.at/germanistik/fachbereich/germanistische_linguistik/ tearen.html
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . No. 2015.1 , 2016, p. 34 .