Karl Gutschmidt

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Karl Gutschmidt (born September 12, 1937 in Fehrbellin ; † March 1, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German Slavist .

Life

Karl Gutschmidt attended high school in Nauen . After graduating from high school, he studied Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1955 to 1960 , while studying abroad at the University of Sofia in 1957/1958 . From 1960 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the Slavic Institute at Humboldt University, where he received his doctorate in 1966. In 1976 he completed his habilitation. Since 1968 he was senior research assistant, since 1982 full professor for comparative Slavic linguistics at the Humboldt University. From 1991 to 1995 he was professor for Slavic Linguistics at the University of Hamburg . In 1995 he accepted a position at the Technical University of Dresden , where he held the chair for Slavic History and Linguistics until his retirement in 2002.

Gutschmidt, who “combined a great deal of competence in almost all Slavs and also in modern Greek , Albanian and Romanian ”, had a particular interest in Belarusian and Bulgarian . The Bulgarian universities of Sofia (1998) and Plovdiv (1999) awarded him honorary doctorates .

He was co-editor of the series modules for Slavic philology and cultural history as well as the journal for Slavic studies .

Fonts

  • Studies on the vocabulary of early Bulgarian translation prose. Berlin. 1966. (dissertation)
  • Studies on the history of Slavic national literary languages. Berlin. 1976. (Habilitation thesis)

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Holger Kuße : Obituary for Professor Karl Gutschmidt . In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal , No. 6, 2012, p. 7 ( online as PDF; 2.6 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Gutschmidt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehrbellin
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2012
Place of death Berlin