Rudolf Aitzetmüller

Rudolf Aitzetmüller (born December 2, 1923 in Linz ; † August 18, 2000 there ) was an Austrian Slavist .

Life

After his release from captivity, Rudolf Aitzetmüller studied Indo-European and Slavic studies at the University of Graz from 1946 . There he received his doctorate in 1950. When his wife Linda Sadnik was appointed to the University of Saarbrücken in 1959 , he followed her to Germany. In 1962 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Heidelberg , a year later he became full professor for Slavic Philology at the University of Tübingen . From there he was appointed to the University of Würzburg in 1967, where he taught until his retirement in 1991. He then returned to his place of study in Graz and lived in Linz from 1994.

Aitzetmüller was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1989 and a corresponding member in 1992 . He was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and received several Bulgarian honors. His specialty was the research of Old Church Slavonic and Old Bulgarian. Among other things, he published a grammar for this language and - together with Linda Sadnik - a dictionary.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Aitzetmüller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for Rudolf Aitzetmüller in the Bulletin of German Slavic Studies 2001 (PDF file; 653 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Rudolf Aitzetmüller (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.