Ulrich Knoop

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Ulrich Knoop (born December 19, 1940 in Pforzheim ) is a German specialist in German studies and a university professor .

Scientific career

From 1961 to 1963 , Knoop studied philosophy , German and English at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Marburg . He received his doctorate in 1972, completed his habilitation in 1994 and has taught German philology at the University of Freiburg since 1995 . Knoop is the first signatory of the “Theses on the Situation of the German Language” of the VDS .

Knoop is co-editor of the Sprachatlas magazine “Germanistische Linguistik ” (1972–1995) and the monograph series “Germanistische Linguistik-Monographien” (from 1998). He is also co-editor of the handbook “ Dialektologie ” (1982/83) and a synoptic dialect dictionary (1997). In addition, research on language norms and language criticism . He is appointed to the board of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation and its jury for the German Language Prize and is the editor of its yearbook (1983–2008). Research on written language develops from the complex of dialect and written language. Knoop was appointed a member of the “Study Group on Written Language” (1984–1999) and co-editor of the handbook “Writing and Writing” (1994 and 1996).

The considerations on the written language result in research on its distribution in Germany in historical times and thus the project “Basics of Linguistic Historiography”, in which the aspect of written language skills in so-called dialect speakers is elaborated and the historical linguistic opposition between high-level speakers vs. Dialect speaker is leveled. This “concept of language historiography” is extensively examined, dealt with in several essays and summarized in the habilitation thesis (1993). Considerations on the special status of the language standard (after 1800, previously an 'understandable' language) and on the “language change” are included. He then turned from the problems of determining the meaning of words for the time of the classics to the literary texts of that time. There are several attempts to determine its contemporary content. The explanations for the poem " Half of Life " by Friedrich Hölderlin are significant .

Classic vocabulary

Knoop heads the “Klassikerwortschatz” project, which is heavily involved in the “Freiburg Anthology ”, in order to select poetry and make it available to the public.

For this compilation of "Freiburg Anthology" in the form of a database Knoop makes the copyright law and in particular the protection as database work claims that the university beyond as the carrier of the project a competition law breaker .

The publisher Directmedia Publishing oriented with the product "1000 poems everyone should have '2002 CD-ROM issued too much in the work of the project, such as the European Court of Justice ruled on 9 October of 2008. Directmedia was defeated as the plaintiff against the university. In August 2009, the Federal Court of Justice finally ended the proceedings in the interests of the plaintiffs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website Ulrich Knoop (former professor for Germanic Philology) at the University of Freiburg
  2. ↑ Spitzmüller, Jürgen. Metalanguage Discourses - Attitudes to Anglicisms and their scientific reception . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005. p. 340.
  3. ↑ http://klassikerwortschatz.de/images/files/publikationen/knoop_ulrich_haelfte_des_lebens.pdf
  4. ^ Project classic vocabulary
  5. ↑ Freiburg Anthology - Lyrik und Lied ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrik-und-lied.de
  6. ↑ ECJ, judgment of October 9, 2008 , Az. C ‑ 304/07, Directmedia Publishing case, full text.
  7. ↑ European Court of Justice interprets database protection widely. , Heise online , October 13, 2008.
  8. ^ BGH, judgment of August 13, 2009 , Az. I ZR 130/04, full text; List of Poems II.
personal data
SURNAME Knoop, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim