Klaus Bürger (philologist)
Klaus Bürger (born September 18, 1938 in Osterode (East Prussia) , † August 8, 2010 in Schleswig ) was a German philologist and historian .
Life
Bürger's father, a veterinarian, fought in World War II when the mother and two sons had to flee west from the Red Army at the start of the Battle of East Prussia in January 1945 . In 1946 they came to Wesenberg (Holstein) via Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest . When his father, released from captivity in 1949, found a job in Vechta in 1953 , Bürger switched from a Lübeck school to a grammar school there.
To become a high school teacher , he studied history and English at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . He spent a few semesters in Marburg (Lahn) and Bradford , England . After the first state examination and the legal traineeship in Lübeck, he passed the second state examination in 1968. He got a job at the Theodor Storm School in Husum and married a colleague. The marriage produced a son. In 1999, Bürger took early retirement after 30 years of service because of health problems.
East Prussia
In 1968 Bürger published the first essays in the Old Prussian Gender Studies . From 1969 to 1983 he published the Osteroder Zeitung and 1977 the thousand-page district book Osterode . In 1983 he wrote a chronicle of Gilgenburg based on a handwritten template .
The historical commission for East and West Prussian regional research noticed him with his sense of sources and personal history research . A full member since 1982, he was elected to the board in 1993, from which he only resigned in May 2010.
In 1995 he was entrusted with the editing of the Old Prussian biography , for which he had already written most of the contributions. He died while processing the third shipment from Volume 5.
The annotated edition of the correspondence between Alfred Rohde (art historian) and the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry is still unfinished . The indexing of the register of the Albertus University in Königsberg (1829–1922) started by Manfred Komorowski in Duisburg.
Publications
- Chronicle of the city of Gilgenburg (District: Osterode) Based on the handwritten chronicle. Edited by Klaus Bürger. District community Osterode Ostpreussen, Hamburg 1983
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Bürger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Old Prussian biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Citizen, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osterode (East Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2010 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |