Werner Winter (linguist)

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Werner Winter (1971)

Johann Karl Werner Winter (born October 25, 1923 in Haselau ; † August 7, 2010 in Preetz ) was a German Indo-Europeanist and linguist .

Life

Winter attended elementary school in Haselau from 1930 to 1934 and then a humanistic grammar school in Hamburg until 1942 , from which he graduated from high school. In the same year he began studying Indo-European Linguistics in Hamburg - but had to drop out because of his military service . From 1945 to 1947 he studied Indo-European linguistics and Slavic studies in Hamburg, and from 1947 to 1949 for a doctorate in Slavic studies, Indo-European linguistics and Greek studies in Bern . In 1949 he received his doctorate in the field of Indo-European studies on the subject of "Studies on the prosthetic vowel in Greek".

From 1949 to 1950 he worked as an assistant instructor for Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Kansas , USA, and from 1950 to 1953 as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg . This was followed by further positions in the USA: Assistant Professor of German and Russian at the University of Kansas (1953–1957), Associate Professor of Slavonic Studies, Linguistics and German Studies at the University of Texas in Austin (1957–1961) and finally owner of a Professorship (1961–1964).

From 1963 he worked again with interruptions in Northern Germany: Substitute professor for Indo-European Linguistics at the Institute for General and Indo-European Linguistics (part of the Philosophical Faculty of Christian Albrechts University ) in Kiel and visiting professor in the same subject at the University of Hamburg (1963–1964) , Visiting Professor of German Studies at the University of Texas (1964–1965), Full Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and General Linguistics in Kiel (1964–1992), Visiting Professor of German Studies at the University of Iowa (1966–1967).

Winter was married and had a son.

Awards

American Council of Learned Societies:

  • Linguistic Institute Fellow (1950)
  • Faculty Research Fellowship (1957)
  • Delegate (1963)

also

Fonts (selection)

  • Small fonts. Celebration on the occasion of the 80th birthday. Selected and edited by Olav Hackstein. Bremen 2005. ISBN 978-3-934106-29-1 .
  • A Bantawa Dictionary. Berlin / New York 2003. ISBN 978-3110177107 .
  • Walapai (Hualapai) texts. (Native American texts series 2.) Berlin / New York 1998. ISBN 978-3-11-016335-3 .
  • Studia Tocharica. Selected Writings / Selected Contributions. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (Publishing House of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan). Poznań 1984. (without ISBN).
  • From the genitive in today's German. In: Zeitschrift für deutsche Sprache 22 (1966), pp. 21–35.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studies on the "prosthetic vowel" in Greek , dissertation by Winter, Werner; Hamburg: Hansischer Gildenverl. Heitmann, 1950. - X, 55 pp.
  2. ^ Directory of scholars

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personal data
SURNAME Winter, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Johann Karl Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indo-Europeanist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Haselau
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2010
Place of death Preetz