Rudolf Schützeichel

Rudolf Schützeichel (born May 20, 1927 in Rahms near Neustadt (Wied) ; † March 5, 2016 in Münster ) was a German Germanic Medievalist .

life and work

Rudolf Schützeichel was the third of six children of Matthias Schützeichel and Gertrud, geb. Eudenbach. His youngest brother was the theologian Heribert Schützeichel (1933–2015), his oldest brother was the Pallotine Father Wilhelm Schützeichel (1922–1998).

Schützeichel studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Mainz . In 1954 he received his doctorate there and in 1960 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne for Germanic Philology. In 1963 he was appointed to the Dutch University of Groningen and in 1964 to the University of Bonn . In 1969 he accepted the chair for German Philology of the late William Foerste at the University of Münster . There he was temporarily managing director of the German Institute, Dean of the Department of German Studies and also director of the Institute for Early Medieval Research. In 1992 Schützeichel retired.

Rudolf Schützeichenel's research and teaching focus was on the Old High German language , its vocabulary and traditional text corpus, in particular the legal language of the documents and name research . Schützeichel was the founder and editor of the specialist periodicals Contributions to Name Research. New series 1 ff. (1966 ff.), And Linguistics 1 ff. (1976 ff.).

honors and awards

Since 1973 he has been a full member of the Philological and Historical Class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . He was also a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since 1971 and a corresponding member from 2006. In 1971 he was for his commitment to the Dutch Philology ( Dutch language ) with the awarding and recording as an officer in the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau honored. In 1992, the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate for research into Old High German.

Publications (selection)

• Dialect, document language and written language. Studies on the history of language on the Middle Rhine. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1960. 2nd edition 1974, ISBN 3-7928-0373-9 .
• The basics of western Central German. Studies on historical linguistic geography. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1961. 2nd edition 1976, ISBN 3-484-15032-7 .
• Old high German dictionary. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1969, 7th edition De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026871-3 .
• Textuality. Smaller writings on medieval German literature. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-484-10435-X .
• as editor: Old High German and Old Saxon gloss vocabulary. Edited with the participation of numerous scientists from home and abroad and on behalf of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . 12 volumes, Tübingen 2004.

literature

• Who is who? The German who's who. 2003, p. 1295
• Rudolf Schützeichel . In: Hans Strodel (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 19th edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 3069 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted online edition).
• Eckhard Meineke: Bibliography Rudolf Schützeichel. Winter, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-533-04388-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Schützeichel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Rudolf Schützeichel in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii
• Press release from the University of Münster: Prof. Rudolf Schützeichel turns 70 ( Memento from February 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (short résumé and photo)
• Rudolf Schützeichel in memory
• Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schützeichel at the Historical Commission for Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family Schützeichel , accessed on November 17, 2015.