Peter von Polenz
Peter von Polenz (born March 1, 1928 in Bautzen ; † August 24, 2011 in Korlingen ) was a German linguist and Germanic Medievalist .
Life
Peter von Polenz comes from the Saxon noble family Polenz . He is a grandson of Wilhelm von Polenz .
After studying German with Theodor Frings and Ludwig Erich Schmitt with a doctorate at the University of Leipzig , he was initially a research assistant there until 1952. After his dismissal and the ban on him from doing academic work, he fled to the FRG.
He initially worked at the University of Marburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1959 . In 1961 he became a professor at the University of Heidelberg , where he was appointed to a full professorship for German philology and linguistics in 1964. From 1975 until his retirement in 1993 he taught as professor for German linguistics at the University of Trier .
Polenz has made important contributions to the history of the German language and to language change .
In 1992 he became a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
Awards and honors
- 1980: Konrad Duden Prize
- 2000: German Language Prize from the Henning Kaufmann Foundation to maintain the purity of the German language
- 2003: Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig
Publications
- History of the German language , from the 5th (1966) to the 10th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-017507-3 .
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German language history from the late Middle Ages to the present , 3 volumes, de Gruyter, Berlin
- Part 1; Introduction, basic terms, German in the early bourgeois era. 1991, ISBN 3-11-012458-0 (= Göschen Collection , Volume 2237); 2nd, revised and supplemented edition: Introduction, basic terms: 14th to 16th century 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016478-7 (= De Gruyter study book ).
- Volume 2; 17th and 18th centuries , 1994, ISBN 978-3-11-013436-0 (= De Gruyter study book ).
- Volume 3; 19th and 20th centuries , 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-014344-7 (= De Gruyter study book ).
- German sentence semantics . Basic concepts of reading between the lines . de Gruyter, Berlin 1985; 2nd, revised edition 1988; 3rd, unchanged edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020366-0 (= De Gruyter study book ).
literature
- From the reason of language - On the death of the linguist Peter von Polenz Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 201, p. 33 of August 30, 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter von Polenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter von Polenz: Language doesn't need a law Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung February 9, 2001
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Polenz, Peter von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist, Germanist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1928 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |
DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 2011 |
Place of death | Korlingen near Trier |