Thomas Klein (Germanist)
Thomas Klein (born September 23, 1943 ) is a German Germanic medievalist and linguist . He is a retired professor for older German language and literature at the University of Bonn .
Life
Klein studied older German language and literature, Germanic philology and linguistics with Günther Jungbluth in Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1973 with a thesis on the interrelationship between Old Saxon and Old High German spellings . In 1983 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with a thesis on the Middle High German literary languages of the 12th and 13th centuries . The University of Cologne appointed him a full professorship in 1985 and in 1993 he followed the call to Bonn, where he retired in 2008.
Thomas Klein taught and researched historical linguistics, linguistics of the older German language and old Germanic languages as well as their literatures. The main work is the research on the writing languages in Middle High German, especially the project he initiated for a new corpus-based grammar of Middle High German. He is co-editor of the collection of short grammars of Germanic dialects series . He is also the recipient of the Conrad-Borching Prize for Low German and Frisian Linguistics and Literature from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1981.
Selected works
- Studies on the interrelationship between Old Saxon and Old High German writing and its linguistic and cultural-historical significance. (= Göppingen work on German studies 205) Kümmerle, Göppingen 1977 (dissertation).
- Hermann Paul. Middle High German grammar. 25th edition, revised, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007 (with Hans-Joachim Solms Klein, Klaus-Peter Wegera).
- Middle High German grammar. Edited by Thomas Klein, Hans-Joachim Solms and Klaus-Peter Wegera. Part 3: Word formation. Berlin 2009.
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2015. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . 27th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033717-4 (for a fee, Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online from de Gruyter ).
Web links
- Publications by Thomas Klein in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii
- Website about Thomas Klein at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Bonn
- Entry about Thomas Klein in the "Erlanger Germanist Directory"
- Literature by and about Thomas Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Small, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1943 |