Luise Berthold

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Luise Berthold (born January 27, 1891 in Berlin ; † October 3, 1983 in Marburg ) was a Germanist , from 1923 first and for 22 years only lecturer at the Philipps University of Marburg and from 1934 published the Hesse-Nassau dictionary .

Life

Luise Berthold was born as one of six children on January 21, 1891 in Berlin into a Protestant, socially committed family that made no difference between the sexes in the upbringing of the children. In Berlin she attended the grammar school courses for women , founded by Helene Lange , in order to be one of the first students to acquire the university entrance qualification. She began her studies in Berlin, continued it at the University of Jena and in 1912 moved to the Philipps University of Marburg. After completing her doctorate in German, Protestant theology and philosophy in 1920, she completed her habilitation in 1923 with a thesis on determining the homeland of old texts. Due to her connection with her teacher Ferdinand Wrede , head of the German Language Atlas , she was innovative in the development of German dialect geography ; For example, she introduced the dialect geographic method into dictionary work. She worked on the Hessen-Nassau dictionary from 1916, from 1927 she took over the printing under Wredes official lead, from 1934 the line, which she held for over thirty years, and worked on it until her death in 1983. In November 1933 she and her teacher signed the German professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler . She wrote essays on a wide range of topics, such as the Old Saxon Genesis , baby cradle games of the late Middle Ages or the belief in witches.

She did not receive a permanent professorship until 1952, almost 30 years after her habilitation. In 1930 she had been made a non-civil servant professor and in 1940 an adjunct professor.

On January 16, 1946, she joined the LDP (later FDP ). In the same year she advocated the establishment of a women's committee . Berthold received an honorary doctorate in theology on December 8, 1948 . Even after 1945 she held various public offices, including as a city councilor (she was a member of the culture committee) until 1952, a member of the State Welfare Association of Hesse and as chairwoman of the university committee of the German Association of Women Academics . In 1953 they appointed the “Marburger Blätter” to the editorial team as a liaison lecturer. On November 13, 1956, she submitted the application for emeritus status, and her teaching activities in Marburg finally ended in 1957.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the High German spiritual counterfactor before 1500. Lüneburg 1920.
  • Old text and modern dialect. Basic information on determining the homeland of old texts, presented in the prose section of the Stuttgart Cod. Theol et philos. 4. No. 190. Klopp, Bonn 1927.
  • Hessen-Nassau folk dictionary. Elwert, Marburg 1927ff.
  • Linguistic precipitations of declining belief in witches. Giessen contributions to German philology, 1938
  • Experienced and struggled. A review. Self-published, Marburg 1969.
  • Flotsam. Happy and contemplative things from 90 years of life. Self-published, Marburg 1982.
  • Experienced and struggled. Review of an alma mater pioneer . Edited by Marita Metz-Becker. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Experienced and struggled , p. 55.
  2. ↑ Experienced and struggled , pp. 52, 62, 71.
  3. ↑ a b c Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. 1000 biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 65.
  4. ↑ “I can't really say that I was happy about it with all my heart. For that, the back and forth from 49 to 52 was too unpleasant, even too bitter ”( Experienced and struggled , p. 118).

literature

  • Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg. Second volume: From 1911 to 1971. Edited by Inge Auerbach. Marburg 1979. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse in connection with the Philipps University of Marburg; 15), p. 465.
  • Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg. Third volume: From 1971 to 1991. First part: Faculty 01–19. Modifications made by Inge Auerbach. Marburg 2000 (publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse; 15), p. 195.
  • Hanna Christiansen: Luise Berthold. In: German and Art Studies in the “Third Reich”. Marburg developments 1920–1950. Edited by Kai Köhler, Burghard Dedner and Waltraud Strickhausen. Munich 2005 (Academia Marburgensis; Vol. 10), pp. 201-211.
  • Hans Friebertshäuser , Heinrich J. Dingeldein : Luise Berthold in memory. In: Der Sprachdienst 27 (1983), p. 172.
  • Edith Laudowicz / Dorlies Pollmann: Luise Berthold: That you have to make your own standard . In: dies .: Because I love life. From the life of committed women. Cologne 1981, pp. 136–152.

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personal data
SURNAME Berthold, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1983
Place of death Marburg