Siegfried Grosse

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Siegfried Adolf Eduard Grosse (born October 22, 1924 in Grimma ; † January 17, 2016 in Bochum ) was a German German studies scholar .

Life

Siegfried Grosse attended the Princely School in Grimma (1937–1942). Grosse passed his Abitur in 1946 in Grimma. From 1947 to 1952 he studied German , English , Latin and philosophy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1952 he was promoted to Dr. phil received his doctorate, in 1963 he completed his habilitation.

In 1964 he was appointed full professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum and was "founding professor" of the German Institute. There he built up the departments of older German and German linguistics as well as the faculty for philology, of which he was dean (1966–1968). He was Pro-Rector for Teaching (1969–1972) and Rector of the Ruhr University Bochum (1972–1973). In 1990 he retired.

Siegfried Grosse devoted himself a. a. the work of Hartmann von Aue , Heinrich von Kempten , Joseph von Eichendorff and Siegfried Lenz . He created the prose translation of the Nibelungenlied published by Reclam and researched the history of the German language from Middle High German to the language of the Ruhr area in the 20th century.

Since 1994 he has been a member of the Institute for German Research in Bochum and has dealt with German literature of the Middle Ages and the modern history of the German language. He was one of the co-founders of the Institute for German Language in 1964 and served as its president from 1987 to 1993.

honors and awards

On January 30, 1981, Grosse was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on February 1, 1994 the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. In 1999 he was awarded the Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , and in 2000 the Konrad Duden Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Siegfried Grosse , FAZ , January 20, 2016
  2. ↑ Friedrich Wermuth, Karl Irmscher u. a .: From the electoral state school to the St. Augustin high school in Grimma 1550–2000. Beucha 2000, ISBN 3-930076-99-3 , p. 54.
  3. ^ Ruhr University Bochum: Obituary notice Siegfried Grosse , FAZ , January 23, 2016
  4. ^ Johan Schloemann: Germanist Siegfried Grosse died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 25, 2016, p. 10.
  5. ^ Institute for German Language: Obituary notice Siegfried Grosse , FAZ , January 23, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Grosse, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grosse, Siegfried Adolf Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2016
Place of death Bochum