Rudolf Fischer (linguist)

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Rudolf Fischer, 1970

Rudolf Georg Fischer (born December 18, 1910 in Koenigsberg an der Eger , Austria-Hungary , † August 2, 1971 in Erfurt ) was a Bohemian- German Slavist and bohemist and onomastic .

Life

Rudolf Fischer was born the son of a master tailor . He visited in Eger , the high school and studied after the Abitur in 1929 to 1935 of the Charles University in Prague Slavic and German philology .

It was in 1936 at the Charles University in Prague with a theme about the Slavic place names of the Cheb region and their evaluations for the phonology and settlement history doctorate . From 1936 to 1945 he was a teacher at secondary schools in Český Krumlov , Reichenberg , Lobositz and Leitmeritz . The book onamenkunde des Egerlandes , published by him in 1940, was persecuted during the German occupation and removed from the libraries. After the Second World War he had to move from Czechoslovakia to Thuringia in April 1946 . There he lived and worked as a teacher in Arnstadt .

In 1950 he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a thesis on name research of place and field names in western Bohemia and its neighborhood. From 1950 to 1951 he was a lecturer for Slavic Studies at the University of Jena, and from 1951 to 1953 he was a full professor for Slavic Studies at the University of Jena. In 1953 he was appointed professor with a chair for Slavic studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Until 1969 he was a full professor of bohemian studies at this university. In 1969 he was removed from this office because of his critical position on the suppression of the Prague Spring as politically unsustainable.

Scientific activities

His scientific work, u. a. also as a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , member of the "Comité International des Sciences Onomastiques", concentrated heavily on onomastics and German-Slavic relations. He was a co-founder of the German-Polish joint venture "Onomastica Slavogermanica".

With a large number of his own publications on German-Slavic name research and extensive editorial and editorial work, he became known far beyond the borders of Germany.

Fonts

  • The Slavic place names of the Egerland and their evaluations for phonology and settlement history . Prague, 1936 (dissertation).
  • Problems of name research on place and field names in western Bohemia and in its neighborhood . Jena, 1950 (habilitation thesis).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b professor catalog of the University of Leipzig - the professors database for Leipzig. Website of the University of Leipzig. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  2. ^ Rudolf Fischer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig 1945-1991. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Senen und Internet. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Rudolf Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, professor of Slavic and Bohemian Studies
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg an der Eger (today Kynšperk nad Ohří )
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1971
Place of death Erfurt