Kurt Schier

Kurt Schier (born February 27, 1929 in Ober-Maxdorf near Gablonz an der Neisse in Czechoslovakia ) is a German and Scandinavian Medievalist .

Life

Schier studied older German and Nordic languages ​​and literature, English, folklore and history at the University of Munich from 1949 to 1955 . In 1955 he received his doctorate under Friedrich von der Leyen in Munich with the work Practical Investigations into the Oral Transmission of Folk Tales . The habilitation took place in 1971 on Nordic philology and Germanic antiquity with the thesis Balder, Loki, Heimdall. Studies on Germanic religion . From 1975 until his retirement in 1995, Schier held the chair for Nordic philology and head of the department for Germanic antiquity at the University of Munich.

Kurt Schier lives in Deisenhofen ( Oberhaching ) near Munich.

Fonts (selection)

• together with Hugo Kuhn (Ed.): Fairy tales, myths, poetry. Festschrift for Friedrich von der Leyen's 90th birthday on August 19, 1963 . Beck, Munich 1963.
• Sagaliteratur, Metzler, Stuttgart 1970 (Metzler Collection, Dept. D, Volume 78).
• Northern lights. Selected writings 1960–1992, Diederichs, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-424-01204-1 (with bibliography, pp. 326–333).

Translations from Old Icelandic

• The Saga of Egil (= Saga. Vol. 1). Edited from Old Icelandic and translated by Kurt Schier. Diederichs, Düsseldorf et al. 1978, ISBN 3-424-00521-5 .
• Egil's saga. The saga of Egil Skalla-Grimsson . Edited and translated from Old Icelandic by Kurt Schier. Diederichs, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-424-01262-9 .

Festschrift

• Wilhelm Heizmann (Ed.): Analecta septentrionalia. Contributions to North Germanic cultural and literary history [dedicated to Kurt Schier on his 80th birthday], de Gruyter, Berlin 2009 (supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Volume 65), ISBN 978-3-11-021869-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Schier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Kurt Schier in the Opac der Regesta Imperii