Richard von Kienle

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Richard von Kienle (born February 9, 1908 in Tiengen ; † May 18, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German linguist who dealt with Indo-European linguistics . He was a professor in Hamburg and head of the Indo-European seminar at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Kienle received his doctorate under Hermann Güntert at Heidelberg University in 1931 and was his assistant. He then worked as a laborer in the archive of the German legal dictionary under Eberhard von Künßberg . In 1933 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg. From the summer semester of 1938 he was a deputy chair for the sick Hermann Güntert in Heidelberg, then Walter Porzig's chair in Jena and from 1940 an associate professor in Heidelberg. In 1941 he became a full professor in Hamburg. From 1942 to 1945 he was a soldier. Like his colleague Walther Wüst, he was a member of the SS and took over at the suggestion of Wüst (who was the curator of the Ahnenerbe) in the SS Ahnenerbe in the spring of 1943 a newly created department of Indo-European verbal studies.

For the Ahnenerbe he wrote a book on Germanic forms of community (clan, federation, tribe, he considered the Germanic to have its own organizational forms). He was co-editor of Hermann Güntert's 1938 new magazine, words and things (which initially published Güntert and Wüst and then - Güntert suffered a stroke in 1939 - Wüst and Kienle).

After the war, because of his NSDAP and SS membership, he was initially unable to return to his chair in Hamburg and became a teacher of Latin, Greek and German at the English Institute in Heidelberg, a private school. In 1953 he was appointed professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin , whereby the appointment committee checked his political past (they obtained expert opinions from Bruno Snell in Hamburg, among others ) and came to the conclusion that he was not politically burdened despite membership in National Socialist organizations . In 1974 he retired.

plant

A Historical Sound and Form Theory of the German Language, published in 1960, came from him and became a standard work.

Immediately after the war he was involved in two works that became bestsellers and were frequently reprinted: a Latin-German dictionary (with Hans Haas ) and a dictionary of foreign words.

He was co-editor of a Tacitus edition and dealt with the German language, Italian languages (including Latin) and Celtic languages.

literature

  • Matthias Fritz: Indo-European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, in: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.), The Ancient and Art Studies at the Free University of Berlin, V & R unipress, Göttingen 2015, p. 52ff

Fonts

  • Germanic community forms, Berlin: Das Ahnenerbe, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1939
  • Gothic texts, Heidelberg 1948
  • Foreign words dictionary, Heidelberg 1950, 10th edition 1965
  • with Hans Haas: Latin-German dictionary. With an introduction to the history of language, the history of sounds, the theory of forms and word formation by Richard v. Kienle, Heidelberg: FH Kerle 1952
  • Historical phonetics and forms of German, Tübingen 1960, 2nd edition 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Based on Matthias Fritz, Indo-European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, 2015, see literature
  2. ↑ Bruce Lincoln: Hermann Güntert in the 1930s: Heidelberg, politics and the study of germanic / indogermanic religion, in Horst Junginger (Hrsg.), The study of religion under the impact of facism, Brill 2008, p. 198 indicated that he already played an important role with the National Socialists in Heidelberg with reference to Steven P. Remy, The Heidelberg Myth. The Nazification and Denazification of a German University, Harvard UP 2003
personal data
SURNAME Kienle, Richard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiengen
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1985
Place of death Berlin