Klaus Matzel

Klaus Matzel (born October 11, 1923 in Borsdorf ; † February 8, 1992 in Regensburg ) was a German philologist and linguist .

Life

Klaus Matzel studied German Philology, Classical Philology, Slavic Studies, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Indology at the Universities of Halle, Leipzig, Jena and Berlin. His studies were interrupted by four years of political imprisonment in Bautzen (GDR).

First he took on a teaching position at the grammar school, then was a lecturer in the subject “German for Foreigners” at the Free University of Berlin, for two years lecturer for German at the University of Ceylon in Peradeniya and research assistant at the University of Würzburg. His habilitation took place in the winter semester 1967/68 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Since 1968 he was full professor for German Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Regensburg, retired on September 30, 1989.

His main areas of work were Old High German, Middle High German, Early New High German, New High German, phonology, morphology, lexicons, etymology, syntax, comparative Germanic linguistics and Indology.

Honors

• Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka
• Studia Linguistica et Philologica. Festschrift for Klaus Matzel on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, presented by students, friends and colleagues. Edited by Hans-Werner Eroms, Bernhard Gajek, Herbert Kolb. Heidelberg: Carl Winter 1984.

Works

• Dissertation, typewritten, submitted 1956: “The Biblical Glosses of clm 22201”. Reviewers: Helmut de Boor and Ingrid Schröbler.
• Habilitation thesis: "Investigations into the authorship, language and origin of the Old High German translations of the Isidor clan" (Rheinisches Archiv, Volume 75). Bonn: Röhrscheid 1970.

literature

• Klaus Matzel, Introduction to the Sinhala language (series of publications by the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Volume 5) Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1966. 2nd, improved edition 1983; 3rd, improved edition 1987.
• Klaus Matzel, Collected Writings. With a foreword by Jean-Marie Zemb. Edited by Rosemarie Lühr, Jörg Riecke, Christiane Thim-Mabrey with the collaboration of Brigitte Dangelat, Rupert Hochholzer, Gabriele Knott-Janev, Craig Mabrey, Hans-Ulrich Schmid, Gerhard Zipp (with a list of publications). Heidelberg. Carl Winter 1990.
• Gert Klingenschmitt, Klaus Matzel (obituary), in: Regensburger Universitätszeitschrift, 17 vol., No. 4/92 (June) p. 17.