Kurt Baldinger
Kurt Baldinger (born November 17, 1919 in Binningen ; † January 17, 2007 in Heidelberg ) was a Swiss Romance scholar , linguist ( linguist ) and medievalist .
life and career
Baldinger attended the Realgymnasium in Basel. He received his doctorate in Basel in 1948 with his teacher Walther von Wartburg .
From 1949 to 1962 he was head of the Institute for Romance Philology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin. After his habilitation in 1952, he was professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1957 .
In 1957 he was appointed professor of Romance philology at the University of Heidelberg , to which he remained loyal and whose rector he was in 1968/1969 in a politically turbulent time. Since 1958 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and since 1976 of the American Philosophical Society . In 1988 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .
Baldinger was editor of the magazine for Romance philology for 30 years and for a long time collaborator of the French Etymological Dictionary . He has published numerous books and essays and countless reviews. He led several large dictionary projects, belonged to many academies at home and abroad, and was awarded five honorary doctorates.
He had his academic profile mainly in French, Hispanic and general linguistics.
Fonts (selection)
- The development of the language areas on the Pyrenees Peninsula. Cross-section through the latest research and attempt at synthesis . Berlin 1958, OCLC 916232254 .
- Teoria semántica. Hacia una semántica moderna . Madrid 1970, OCLC 865261372 .
- On the influence of language on human ideas. (Folk etymology and semantic parallel shift) . Heidelberg 1973, ISBN 3-533-02289-7 .
- Etymological dictionary to Rabelais (Gargantua) . Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-484-52306-9 .
literature
- as editors Georges Straka and Max Pfister : Kurt Baldinger: The fascination of linguistics. Selected articles for his 70th birthday. With a bibliography . Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-484-52224-0 .
- Obituary by Max Pfister in the Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 123, 2007, pp. 820–826.
- Obituary in English by Wolfgang Raible (PDF; 729 kB).
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Kurt Baldinger. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 18, 2018 (with biographical information).
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 1, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baldinger, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Romance Studies, Linguist and Medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Binningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 2007 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |