Rainer Eckert (Linguist)
Rainer Eckert (born December 10, 1931 in Hasel ) is a German Baltist and professor emeritus.
Life
Rainer Eckert was expelled from his hometown as part of the Sudeten German ethnic group in July 1946 and was forcibly relocated to the former Soviet occupation zone .
He initially worked in agriculture and forestry. From 1949 he was able to go back to school and in 1952 he graduated from high school. From 1952 to 1957 he studied Russian, Slavic and Baltic studies at Moscow University . From 1957 to April 1961 a doctoral degree followed.
With a fresh doctorate, he returned to Germany and worked at the University of Leipzig from May 1961 to the end of September 1979 , initially as a research assistant and senior assistant and from 1969 as a university lecturer. In September 1971 he was appointed Full Professor of the Russian Language . From 1971 to 1975 he headed the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section.
In 1977 the habilitation for Baltic studies took place with the thesis The Nominal Stems on i- in the Baltic with special consideration of Slavic .
His main research interests were, in addition to Baltic Slavic, the historical morphology of the Slavic and Baltic languages, lexicology and phraseology as well as the history of Slavic and Baltic studies.
On October 1, 1979, Rainer Eckert became head of the Slavic, Balkan and Finnish-Ugric Studies department at the Central Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1980 he founded a Baltic research group here.
After a positive assessment of Baltic research by the Science Council in 1989, the professorship and degree course in Baltic studies was established at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald and in March 1992 Eckert was appointed to Greifswald as the first professor for Baltic studies. In May 1993 he became the founding director of the Institute for Baltic Studies.
He worked here until his retirement in December 1996. His successor was Jochen D. Range.
He has been a member of the Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese since 1983 and of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies since 1992 . He was deputy chairman of the commission for the study of Baltic-Slavic relations at the International Slavist Committee and chairman of the Balticists' circle in Berlin.
Honors
- Honorary doctorate from Vilnius University in 1997
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Latvia in 1999
literature
- Jochen D. Range: Rainer Eckert: A Slavic-Baltic way of life. In: Aspects of Baltic research: [in honorem Rainer Eckert]. Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule 2000 (= publications of the Institute for Baltic Studies 1) ISBN 3-89206-929-8 , pp. 383–384 ( full text )
Web links
- Literature about Rainer Eckert (linguist) in the state bibliography MV
- Website at the Institute for Baltic Studies
- Rainer Eckert, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 22, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckert, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Baltist and university professor emeritus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | hazel |