Klaus Düwel

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Klaus Düwel (born December 10, 1935 in Hanover ) is a German Germanic and Scandinavian Medievalist . He is professor i. R. at the University of Göttingen .

Life

In Göttingen , Klaus Düwel studied history and modern German language and literature as a teacher from 1956. He continued this with a move to Tübingen in 1958. In the winter semester of 1958/59 he moved to Vienna to study theater studies . The encounter there with the medievalist Otto Höfler was, according to Heizmann / van Nahl, decisive for his professional future, as Höfler, as a teacher, gave him access to medieval philology, ancient German studies. After returning to Göttingen, Düwel studied older German and Nordic philology with Wolfgang Lange and Hans Neumann, as well as with Percy Ernst Schramm and Hermann Heimpel, the history of the Middle Ages. In addition to these subjects, he studied Protestant theology. He passed the state examination in German and history in 1961 and expanded it to include Protestant religion in 1963.

He received his doctorate from Lange in 1965, when his personal assistant Düwel helped Lange, among other things, with the revision of Rudolf Much's Germania commentary (3rd edition 1967) from 1962 . Düwel delivered a work work descriptions of Middle High German narrative literature (1050-1250) , which was published in 1983. In it Düwel explains that the work names cannot be considered generic terms.

The Habilitation took place in 1972. A Habilitationsstipendium the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft enabled Düwel from 1969 extended research visits to Scandinavia, to do research for his habilitation thesis on pagan Germanic sacral vocabulary. Since it was a large project, he was forced to publish the completed part of the source and research criticism in 1971 with the title “ The Feast of Sacrifice in Lade and the story of Völsi. Source-critical investigations on the Germanic religious history ”as a habilitation thesis, the first part of which was published in 1985. In it, Düwel dealt critically with the methods, problems and weaknesses of previous scientific research into Germanic religious history. In the previously unpublished part, he presented the episode on the so-called Vǫlsa þáttr (Old Icelandic vǫlsi 'penis') from the Óláfs ​​saga hins helga as an unhistorical insert by a high medieval author of the 13th / 14th. Century. He invented ancient terms such as vǫlsi and thus in sum by no means presented a piece of a traditional pagan-archaic fertility rite.

In 1974, Düwel initially received an unscheduled professorship in Göttingen, and then from 1978 to 2001 he taught with a C3 professorship at the local seminar for German philology . From 1977 to 1994 Klaus Düwel was chairman of the Volkshochschule Göttingen eV and from 2001 to 2013 he was chairman of the University of the Third Age in Göttingen .

The scientific work and research focus of Düwel is on the one hand the medieval literatures in German and Nordic language and on the other hand the so-called "Germanic antiquity". Within this, Düwel devotes himself to runology in numerous publications . For the second edition of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Düwel wrote numerous articles and contributions on rune epigraphy as a co-editor. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading representatives in this discipline.

Düwel is a member of the Royal Gustav Adolfs Academy in Uppsala , the Science Society in Trondheim, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Oslo and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

On May 5, 2014, Düwel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

literature

  • Wilhelm Heizmann, Astrid van Nahl: Foreword . In: Wilhelm Heizmann, Astrid van Nahl (eds.): Runica - Germanica - Medievalia. Festschrift for Klaus Düwel. (=  Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes ). tape 37 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-089407-3 , p. vii – x ( chargeable from De Gruyter Online).
    • Ibid: List of publications by Klaus Düwel (1964–2002), pp. 1008–1024.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2015. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . 27th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033717-4 (for a fee, Kürschner-Online at de Gruyter ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Klaus Düwel: The epigraphy in the RGA. In: Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer (Hrsg.): Antiquity - Classical Studies - Cultural Studies. Income and perspectives after 40 years of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes 77) de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-027361-8 , pp. 263-292 ( fee required from de Gruyter ).
  2. ^ Cross of Merit for the father of the senior university . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , May 5, 2014, accessed on May 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Düwel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover