Konrad Duden Prize
The Konrad Duden Prize is an award for German scholars who have made particular contributions to the German language and its research. It has been awarded every two to three years by the city of Mannheim in cooperation with the Bibliographisches Institut GmbH publishing house since 1959 and is endowed with 12,500 euros (as of 2017). It was named after the German philologist Konrad Duden . On the occasion of the 400th birthday of the city of Mannheim, a special prize was awarded in 2007, which consisted of a book donation worth 10,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1959: Leo Weisgerber (Germany)
- 1961: Hans Glinz (Switzerland)
- 1964: Hugo Moser (Germany)
- 1966: Louis L. Hammerich (Denmark) and Gerhard Storz (Germany)
- 1968: Gustav Korlén (Sweden) and Jost Trier (Germany)
- 1970: Johannes Erben (Germany)
- 1972: Hans Eggers (Germany)
- 1974: Jean Fourquet (France)
- 1976: Ludwik Zabrocki (Poland)
- 1978: Heinz Rupp (Germany / Switzerland)
- 1980: Peter von Polenz (Germany)
- 1982: Hugo Steger (Germany)
- 1984: Mirra Guchmann (USSR)
- 1986: Harald Weinrich (Germany)
- 1988: Vladimir Admoni (USSR)
- 1990: Hans Jürgen Heringer (Germany)
- 1992: Els Oksaar ( Estonia / Sweden)
- 1994: Gerhard Helbig (Germany)
- 1996: Helmut Henne (Germany)
- 1998: Ingo Reiffenstein (Austria)
- 2000: Siegfried Grosse (Germany)
- 2002: Hans-Werner Eroms (Germany)
- 2004: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Denmark)
- 2006: Heinrich Löffler (Germany)
- 2007: Special Prize: Goethe Institute
- 2008: Peter Eisenberg (Germany)
- 2009: Institute for the German Language (Germany)
- 2011: Peter Schlobinski (Germany)
- 2014: Damaris Nübling (Germany)
- 2017: Christian Fandrych (Germany)