Marron Curtis Fort

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Marron Curtis Fort (born October 24, 1938 in Boston ; † December 18, 2019 in Leer (East Friesland) ) was an American - German Germanist and hairdresser who specialized in researching the Sater Frisian and Low German languages . Fort had German citizenship and lived in Leer until his death. Fort contributed significantly to the popularity of the Sater Frisian language through his contributions to the press, radio and television.

academic career

Fort is the son of Alice and Marron William Fort, who became the first African-American to receive an engineering doctorate in 1933. After attending boarding school in New Hampshire (USA), Marron C. Fort studied German, English, Dutch, Scandinavian and mathematics at Princeton University from 1957 . In 1961 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). As part of a university exchange program, he came to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1963 . In 1965, Fort received his PhD with Alfred Senn at the University of Pennsylvania , with a dissertation on Vechta Low German .

From 1969 to 1985 Marron C. Fort was a professor of German at the University of New Hampshire . During this time, namely in 1976/77 and 1982/83, he took on visiting professorships at the University of Oldenburg and began his studies in Sater Frisian and East Frisian Low German . At the University of Oldenburg, Fort was an academic senior counselor from 1983 , where he headed the Low German and Sater Frisian office until his retirement in 2003. From 1982 he lived in Germany.

As part of his preoccupation with Sater Frisian, Marron C. Fort published a Sater Frisian dictionary and two volumes of folk tales in Sater Frisian. For this purpose he made a translation of the New Testament and the Psalms.

Honors

Fort received the landscape medal of the Oldenburg landscape in 1991 . In 1998 he was awarded the Indigenate of the East Frisian Landscape and thus became a "naturalized East Frisian". On December 13, 2004, Fort became an honorary citizen of the Saterland community and in 2008 an honorary member of the Seelter Buund. In 2012 he received the Lower Saxony Order of Merit on ribbon for his decades of commitment to research and preservation of the regional languages . For the same reason, he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on September 1, 2015 .

Works

  • Sater Frisian dictionary . Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1980. ISBN 3-87118-401-2
  • Sater Frisian folk life . Ostendorp, Rhauderfehn 1985. ISBN 3-921516-42-0
  • Sater Frisian voices . Ostendorp, Rhauderfehn 1990. ISBN 3-921516-48-X
  • Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwersfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde. Oldenburg 2003. ISBN 3-8142-0692-4
  • Sater Frisian dictionary. 2nd, completely revised and greatly expanded edition. With 1 CD-ROM, 2015, ISBN 978-3-87548-723-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Elsen: Saterland mourns Marron Curtis Fort , nwzonline.de. 20th December 2019
  2. ^ Marron W. Fort ( en ) MIT Black History. 1926. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  3. ^ David Hubbard: Engineering and the African-American Experience . Missouri University of Science and Technology. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ Martina Keller: The last Saterfriese , Deutsche Welle. Retrieved February 22, 2020. 
  5. ^ Description of the Vechta dialect , facsimile available in the Vechta University Library
  6. ↑ Winner of the Landscape Medal. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed on February 5, 2014 .
  7. ^ Announcement from the University of Oldenburg on the award of indignity to Fort. Accessed on February 5, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Chronicle of the community of Saterland 2004. Archived from the original ; accessed on February 5, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Online article in the Nordwest-Zeitung about the homage association. Retrieved February 5, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Press release from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture. Retrieved February 5, 2014 .
  11. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Marron Fort. Accessed December 12, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gone, Marron Curtis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 2019
Place of death Leer (East Frisia)