Karl Heinrich Meyer (Slavist)

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Karl Heinrich Meyer

Karl Heinrich Meyer (born December 15, 1890 in Petershagen , † 1945 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German Slavist at the Albertus University.

Life

Meyer attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim until 1910 . After graduating from high school, he studied linguistics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität . In Munster , he was in 1913 for Dr. phil. PhD . Studies in comparative linguistics and classical philology at the University of Leipzig followed . After the First World War Meyer turned to Slavic studies. In January 1920 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig with a work that was based on his much-discussed treatise on the “downfall” of declension in the Bulgarian language . As a private lecturer in Slavic Philology , he was also an assistant at the Indo-European Institute at the University of Leipzig.

In 1927 he succeeded in re- teaching in Münster. At first he only had a teaching position there. In 1929 he was appointed non-official extraordinary associate professor . In 1930 he managed to establish a Slavic seminary there, of which he became the first director. In 1935 he followed the call of the Albertus University in Königsberg . From 1936 he led the newly combined Baltic-Slavic seminar with Georg Gerullis .

Already during his teaching activities in Münster and later in Königsberg, his teaching and lecturing activities were characterized by a special range of topics that corresponded to his diverse interests. In addition to the smaller Slavic languages, he also considered, for example, the Romanian language as a Balkan language. Modern Bulgarian received special attention. Meyer earned special services in researching the Old Church Slavonic language . He also created a dictionary for the Codex Suprasliensis . When the Red Army won the Battle of Koenigsberg , Meyer was the last professor to give a lecture on Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostoevsky . Meyer had stayed in Koenigsberg because he had hoped that the Russians would let Albertus University exist and appoint him as rector.

Meyer was married and had two daughters with his wife. He was unable to walk himself and was killed with his wife and a daughter on a “propaganda march”.

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  1. ↑ The history of the Albertina by Peter Roquette, University of Heidelberg, November 1, 2001, accessed on May 26, 2019
  2. ^ Gerhard von Glinski, Peter Wörster : Königsberg. The East Prussian capital, past and present . Westkreuz-Verlag, Berlin Bonn 1992, p. 127.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist in Leipzig, Munster and Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)