Karl-Heinz Pollok

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Karl-Heinz Pollok (born August 22, 1929 in Gera ; † July 24, 2003 in Passau ) was a German Slavic philologist . In 1978 he was the founding president of the University of Passau .

Life

Karl-Heinz Pollok studied from 1948 to 1955 Slavic Philology, Oriental Studies, Eastern European History and English Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Humboldt University Berlin and Georg August University Göttingen . In 1955 he is in Göttingen with a topic related to the Serbo-Croatian language to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1955 to 1963 he was initially a lecturer and lecturer and later a research assistant at the Slavonic Seminar at Göttingen University. In 1963 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with a thesis on questions of Balkan Slavic folk poetry and cultural history. In 1963 he became a private lecturer for Slavic Philology at the University of Göttingen. In 1967 he received a reputation as a professor of Slavic philology at the University of Regensburg .

From 1968 to 1971 Pollok was rector of the University of Regensburg, later several times its prorector. He was also involved in university politics and was chairman of the Bavarian university planning commission at the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture (1971–1976) and chairman of the structural advisory board for the University of Passau (1974–1976) and for the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg . In 1976, Karl-Heinz Pollok became the founding president of the newly founded University of Passau, an office he held until 1997. Together with Matthäus Kaiser , he was considered one of the two founding fathers of the University of Passau.

Pollok initiated the first international partnership with Charles University in Prague . On his initiative, German-language courses are offered at the universities in Moscow and Budapest in cooperation with the University of Passau .

His research focus was on Balkans and Russian folk poetry, the Serbo-Croatian accent system, the Old Russian language and literature, Russian vocabulary and the history of western and southern Slavic literature.

Pollok was married and had four children.

Memberships and Activities

Pollok was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse, Classe des Belles-Lettres, the Presidium and Scientific Advisory Board of the Suedosteuropa Gesellschaft (SOG) , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eastern Europe Institute in Munich and the Board of Trustees of the European Academy Bavaria . As a board member of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) , he represented the German universities in the German-Austrian equivalence commission and in the European committee for the Erasmus program in Brussels.

He was also a member of the Order Advisory Board for the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and a representative of the Bavarian universities on the scientific advisory board of the Working Group of Universities in the Alps-Adriatic Region. Pollok was chairman of the Bavarian Rectors' Conference (1994-1996) and from 1999 until his death chairman of the university council of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and chairman of the university council of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

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SURNAME Pollok, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavic philologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2003
Place of death Passau