Ludwig Erich Schmitt

Ludwig Erich Schmitt (born February 10, 1908 in Remscheid , died March 1, 1994 in Marburg ) was a German specialist in German studies and a university professor.

Life

Schmitt studied German philology at the universities of Giessen , Berlin and Leipzig . He received his doctorate in 1934 and completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1941; his teacher was Theodor Frings . From 1941 to 1943 Schmitt was professor at the University of Groningen , after 1945 in Leipzig. In 1953 he left the GDR and took on teaching assignments in Gießen and Cologne in West Germany . From 1956 until his retirement in 1976 he was a full professor at the Philipps University in Marburg and, as the successor to Walther Mitzka, head of the “Deutscher Sprachatlas” institute, which he expanded into a large research institute. He supervised 90 dissertations and 16 habilitations; In the 1980s, professors who had been his students taught at many universities. B. Peter von Polenz , Friedhelm Debus , Günter Bellmann , Helmut Henne , Horst Haider Munske , Peter Wiesinger , Oskar Reichmann and Herbert Ernst Wiegand .

Investigations into the origin and structure of the "New High German written language". Volume 1: Linguistic history of Thuringian-Upper Saxon in the late Middle Ages. The business language from 1300 to 1500 . 2nd edition, Cologne / Graz 1982.
Brief outline of Germanic philology up to 1500. 2 volumes, Berlin 1970 and 1971.
Alfred Götze (1876–1946) worked as a Germanist in Leipzig, Freiburg and Giessen. Giessen 1980.

Walther Mitzka (ed.): Word geography and society. Festival ceremony for Ludwig Erich Schmitt on his 60th birthday on February 10, 1968. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1968.
Horst Haider Munske , Peter von Polenz , Oskar Reichmann , Reiner Hildebrandt (eds.): German vocabulary. Lexicological studies. Ludwig Erich Schmitt on the 80th birthday of his Marburg students. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1988, ISBN 3-11-010892-5
Elisabeth Feldbusch (Ed.): Results and tasks of German studies at the end of the 20th century. Festschrift for Ludwig Erich Schmitt on his 80th birthday. Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 1989.

Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook. Volume 2, Tübingen 1994, pp. 838-840.
Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933–1945 . 2 volumes, Tübingen 2010, pp. 715–721.
Gerrold van der Stroom: JMN Kapteyn en Leo Polak, en Ludwig Erich Schmitt. Dubbelvoudig verraad en overmoed aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen tijdens de Duitse bezetting (1940–1942). Amsterdam & Münster 2018.

↑ Norbert Nail: Ludwig Erich Schmitt as supervisor of doctorates and habilitations. In: Horst Haider Munske , Peter von Polenz , Oskar Reichmann , Reiner Hildebrandt (eds.): German vocabulary. Lexicological studies. Ludwig Erich Schmitt on the 80th birthday of his Marburg students. de Gruyter 1988, Berlin / New York

personal data
SURNAME	Schmitt, Ludwig Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmitt, Ludwig Erich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1994
Place of death	Marburg