Rudolf Wölfl
Rudolf Wölfl (born April 18, 1911 in Graslitz , Bohemia , † June 21, 2003 ) was a Bohemian-German philologist , educator and humanist .
Life
Rudolf Wölfl, the youngest son of an instrument maker, studied German , Slavic and comparative linguistics from 1930 to 1934 at the Karl Ferdinand University , the German University in Prague . In 1935 he passed the first state examination and in 1939 the second. Between 1936 and 1938 he did his military service in the Czech army: he then continued his teacher training at the commercial academy in Hungarian-Hradisch in the autumn of 1938.
After serving as a soldier in Russia and Italy in World War II , as a prisoner of war and expulsion , in 1946 he became a teacher of German, English and Latin at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Eschwege , where his wife and two children ended up.
In 1963 he switched to the Pedagogical Institute in Fulda and was one of the founders. With the introduction of the University of Applied Sciences Act in 1971, he was appointed professor at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen , Fulda area, from 1974 University of Applied Sciences Fulda . For many years he was head of the Department of Social and Cultural Studies. In 1976 he retired. After remaining at the University of Fulda for two years as a lecturer, he retired in Tauberfranken . There he got involved in setting up the Schlaraffia in Bad Mergentheim.
Web links
- Roland Schopf: "Prof. Rudolf Wölfl died at the age of 92 " , University newspaper 2003/2 of the University of Fulda
- Thomas Richter: "Philologist, Pedagogue, Humanist" - On the death of Professor Rudolf Wölfl , Our old Penne, December 2003 (PDF file; 3.42 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wölfl, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist, educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kraslice , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2003 |