Margarete Woltner

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Margarete Woltner (born December 4, 1897 in Riga , † September 22, 1985 in Bonn ) was a German Slavist.

Life

Woltner came from a German-Baltic Mitau merchant family. She went to Petrograd to study in 1916 , but returned to Riga after the revolution. From 1919 to 1923 she studied history and Slavic studies at the universities of Jena and Leipzig . In 1923 she received her doctorate in Slavic Studies on the Igore Song . From 1925 to 1939 she was Max Vasmer's assistant at the Slavic Institute at the University of Berlin .

Here she completed her habilitation in 1937 and was appointed lecturer in 1939. In 1946 she became a professor with a teaching position, in 1947 a full professor and in 1950 she was appointed full professor of Slavic Studies at Humboldt University. She quit this position in the same year because she rejected the political developments in the GDR and moved to live with her sister in Frankfurt / Main. From 1951 she was a lecturer at the University of Mainz , and from 1953 until her retirement in 1965, she was professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Bonn .

From 1952 she was co-editor alongside Vasmer of the Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie , from Vasmer's death until 1968 she was the sole editor.

Works

  • M. Woltner, editor: The community reports from 1848 of the German settlements. Series: Georg Leibbrandt Collection , 4, Sources and Research on Germanness in Eastern Europe. S. Hirzel , Leipzig 1941

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notes

  1. ↑ In the sense of its namesake, this series served to raise ongoing German territorial claims to areas of the Soviet Union. Book text also online
personal data
SURNAME Woltner, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1985
Place of death Bonn