Theodor Lewandowski

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Theodor Lewandowski (born November 16, 1927 in Allenstein (East Prussia) , † December 14, 1997 ) was a German German linguist .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1958, Lewandowski studied Russian language and literature at the Pedagogical Institute in Brandenburg (Havel) and studied German, Slavic, general linguistics and psychology at the University of Cologne from 1964 to 1971. He received his doctorate in 1972 and taught from 1973 as a regular Professor of German Language and Literature and its Didactics, Focus on Linguistics, at the University of Cologne.

Lewandowski is best known for his linguistic dictionary , which was published from 1973 to 1994 in six, repeatedly revised editions. It was expanded from initially over 1000 to later around 2000 articles and is one of the most important handbooks in linguistics.

Works

  • The Middle Low German dialogue between life and death and its Old Russian translation. A contrastive study. Böhlau, Cologne 1972. ISBN 978-3-412-96072-8 . (Dissertation, Cologne 1971.)
  • Pragmatic aspects in grammars of German. In: Gerhard Stickel (editor): Pragmatics in grammar. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-590-15660-0 , pages 7-33.
  • With the collaboration of Eveline Einhauser: German as a second and target language: Handbook for language promotion. WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 1991. ISBN 3-88476-000-9 .
  • Linguistic dictionary . 6th edition, unchanged reprint of the 5th, revised edition. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1994. ISBN 3-8252-1518-0 .

Festschrift

  • Hugo Aust (editor): Words: treasures, fugues and subjects of knowledge. Festival ceremony for Theodor Lewandowski on his 60th birthday. Narr, Tübingen 1987. ISBN 3-87808-376-9 .

Biographical sketch

  • Wilfried Kürschner (editor): Linguist's Handbook: Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present. Volume 1: A - L. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 . Article: Lewandowski, Theodor , page 545.

obituary

  • H. Günther: Obituary for Theodor Lewandowski (1927–1997). In: Linguistic Reports 173, 1998, pp. 45-46.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See forewords in the 4th edition 1984.
  2. ^ Theodor Lewandowski: Pragmatic Aspects in Grammars of German.
personal data
SURNAME Lewandowski, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein (East Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1997