Klaus Strunk

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Klaus Strunk (born August 22, 1930 in Düsseldorf ; † September 7, 2018 ) was a German Indo-Europeanist. Strunk was a professor at the universities of Saarland and at the University of Munich .

Life

Klaus Strunk graduated from high school in Düsseldorf in 1950. From 1950 to 1957 he studied comparative linguistics , Greek and Latin at the University of Cologne , and Indology and Baltology at the University of Bonn . In 1957, Strunk received his doctorate in comparative linguistics with the minor subjects Greek and Latin on "The so-called Aeolians of the Homeric language" in Cologne.

In 1957 he was briefly a research assistant at the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic in Hamburg; in the same year he was again assistant for classical philology at the University of Cologne until 1959 . In 1958 he passed the first state examination for Greek and Latin, in 1965 he qualified as a professor in Cologne in the subject of comparative linguistics on "nasal presentations and aorists " with Hansjakob Seiler . From 1965 to 1967 he was a lecturer in comparative linguistics at the University of Cologne and also represented the chair for comparative linguistics and Indo-Iranian studies at the Saarland University. In 1967 he was appointed full professor for comparative Indo-European linguistics and Indo-Iranian studies at the Saarland University, which he remained until 1977.

From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Strunk was a full professor for “General and Indo-European Linguistics” at the University of Munich.

Memberships

Offices in academic self-administration in professional societies (selection)

  • 1969–1983 member of the board of the Indo-European Society
  • 1983–1992 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Indo-European Society
  • 1985–1987 Dean of Faculty 13 at LMU
  • 1987–1992 Member of the Publishing Committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • 1988–1992 (and again since 1996) expert reviewer for historical-comparative linguistics at the DFG
  • Since 1989 secretary of the philosophical-historical class and board member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • Elected member of the Philological Society , London, since 1992

Fonts

  • with KT Schmidt: Toch. B kwipe 'shame, shame', A kip 'shame', and germ. * Wīƀa 'woman' . In: Karin Heller, Oswald Panagl and Johann Tischler (eds.): Indogermanica Europaea. Festschrift for Wolfgang Meid for his 60th birthday on November 12, 1989 . Institute for Linguistics at the University of Graz, Graz 1989, pp. 251–284.
  • 'Pre-Greek' / 'Pelasgian': New considerations on an older substrate hypothesis . In: Alfred Bammesberger, Theo Vennemann (Eds.): Languages ​​in Prehistoric Europe . Carl Winter, Heidelberg 2003, pp. 85-98.

Festschrift

  • Heinrich Hettrich (Ed.): Verba et structurae. Festschrift for Klaus Strunk on his 65th birthday (= Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics, Vol. 83). Institute for Linguistics, Innsbruck 1995, ISBN 3-85124-653-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the FAZ, September 12th
personal data
SURNAME Strunk, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2018