Stefan Binder (Germanist)

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Stefan Binder (born June 30, 1907 in Alma , Sibiu district ; † August 13, 1997 in Timișoara ) was a Romanian- German German philologist and promoter of Banat dialect research .

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Stefan Binder attended grammar school in Bucharest and studied German and Romanian languages from 1925 to 1932 in Paris , Berlin and Cluj-Napoca . After graduation, he received his doctorate in 1932 in Berlin to Dr. phil. with a thesis on “'Child', 'Boy', 'Girl' in Dacoromanian .” A contribution to onomasiology .

From 1935 Binder taught foreign languages ​​in Bucharest , Gheorgheni and Timișoara and in September 1948 became director and German teacher at the German Pedagogical Institute in Timișoara. From September 1954 to September 1956, Binder was professor for teaching methodology and chair holder for methodology at the "Interregional Institute for Further Education of Teachers" in Timișoara. From September 1956 to September 1962 he held the position of lecturer for German contemporary language and held the chair for German language at the Pedagogical University in Timișoara, which was newly founded in September. The University of Timisoara emerged from it in 1962 , where Stefan Binder became professor for German language and literature and professor in 1963. From 1970 until his retirement on November 1, 1972, Binder was a full university professor and in 1971 was authorized to supervise doctoral students in the field of German studies, giving priority to Romanian-German language and literature research . Herbert Bockel received his doctorate on topics relating to Romanian German literature in 1979 and Annemarie Podlipny-Hehn in 1988. Walter Engel completed the dissertation he had begun with Stefan Binder in Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1982. In the field of Banat dialectology , Binder directed the dissertations of Hans Gehl and Peter Kottler .

Since 1973, when Binder was appointed a member of the state committee for the "European Language Atlas" by the Romanian Academy , he has been collecting and processing answers to over 500 questions for this project for the localities of Nitzkydorf (Banat) and Birthälm (Transylvania). After his retirement, Stefan Binder remained an advisory professor for German language and literature at the University of Timișoara.

Stefan Binder was chairman of the expert commission that examined the literary works of the five arrested authors Wolf von Aichelburg , Hans Bergel , Andreas Birkner , Georg Scherg and Harald Siegmund for the Securitate in 1959, who were convicted by a military court in the Kronstadt writers ' trial.

One of the major research projects of the chair of German studies in Timișoara under the direction of Stefan Binder was a "History of German Poetry in Romania", which he completed in 1972 for the period from the 12th century to the middle of the 20th century, a "dictionary of the German dialects of the Banat "and a" grammar of the Banat German dialects. "

As early as 1957, a working group for dialect research consisting of teachers Stefan Binder, Johann Wolf , Maria Pechtol and Hans Weresch laid the foundations for a Banat dialect dictionary. The first studies and essays by the students about their native dialect were later in many cases expanded into examination papers.

Memberships

  • Member of the Romanian Academy
  • Society for Philological Sciences
  • Romanian Society for Romance Philology
  • Romanian National Committee for the European Linguistic Atlas

Publications

  • "Child", "boy", "girl" in Dacoromanian. A contribution to onomasiology. Part 1: The Northern Dialects.
  • Reader for the VI. Class, Bucharest 1953
  • German language teaching and spelling for the V.-VII. Class, Bucharest 1954
  • German Language, Linguistics and Spelling, Bucharest 1955
  • Methodology of the German language for the I.-IV. Class of elementary school, Bucharest 1955
  • Selection of German texts from the oldest times to the 17th century, Timișoara 1958, two volumes
  • The German language of the present. Introduction, Phonetics, Timișoara 1969
  • The German language of the present. Lexicology, Timișoara 1970
  • The sentence construction plans. Theoretical and methodical in the field of German as a foreign language, Bucharest 1978

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b kulturraum-banat.de , Hans Gehl: 50 years of Temeswarer German Studies Chair
  2. ↑ half-year publication.blogspot.de , William Totok : Securitate and party
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Alma , Sibiu County
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1997
Place of death Timișoara