Otto Moll (philologist)

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Otto Ernst Eugen Guido Moll (born January 31, 1882 in Culm , West Prussia , † September 7, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German philologist.

Life

Otto Moll, son of the officer Paul Moll, first attended high school in Magdeburg and then entered the Prussian main cadet institute in Groß-Lichterfelde, where he received his school-leaving certificate in 1901. After completing his military service, he first worked in shipbuilding in 1902/03 and then studied New Languages ​​and Philosophy in Berlin, Leipzig, Edinburgh and Kiel . In February and July 1909 he passed the examen pro facultate docendi in Kiel and received his doctorate on December 11, 1909 under Ferdinand Holthausen . Since 1909 he was active at several grammar schools in Berlin, from 1914 to 1928 he was a teacher at the municipal lyceum in Spandau . During the First World War, Moll was deployed to Turkey and Russia, where he was able to further improve his language skills. He devoted himself to language research and worked as a translator. He wrote lexicons in foreign languages ​​or translated Scandinavian sagas and Turkish texts. In particular, he was engaged in proverb research. Living in Spandau, he was considered a "strange original" there.

Publications

  • The style of Byron's Child Harold's Pilgrimage. Dissertation Kiel 1910 (with curriculum vitae).
  • The style of Byron's Child Harold's Pilgrimage. (= Normannia 10). Felber, Berlin 1911.
  • with Josef Wanninger: Danish-German and German-Danish - Dansk-Tysk og Tysk-Dansk - with pronunciation instructions (Junckers dictionaries). Axel Juncker Verlag, Berlin 1943.
  • with Rudolf Dahms : Latin pocket dictionary . 2 parts. Axel Juncker Verlag, Berlin / Stuttgart 1951.
  • Proverbs Bibliography . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • The German field marshals 1935–1945 . Edited by Wolfgang W. Marek. Erich Pabel Verlag, Rastatt 1961.
  • Relates to the arrangement of a collection of proverbs . In: Proverbium 5. 1966, p. 111.
  • About the oldest collections of proverbs . In: Proverbium 6, 1966, pp. 113-120.
  • Paremiological terms and definitions . In: Proverbium 10, 1968, pp. 249-250.

literature

  • Heike Schroll, Regina Rousavy (ed.): The Berlin State Archive and its holdings. Part IV: Overview of the bequests (tectonics group E) and collections (tectonics group F) . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8305-1144-1 , p. 151 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam 1914, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Minor, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moll, Otto Ernst Eugen Guido (full name); Moll, Otto E .; Moll, Otto EE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Culm , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1968
Place of death Berlin