Wilhelm Schmidt (Germanist)
Wilhelm Schmidt (born May 28, 1914 in Märzdorf ( Bohemia ); † November 17, 1982 in Potsdam-Babelsberg ) was a German-Czech Germanist , Slavonic scholar , linguist and university professor.
Life
He was born as the son of a weaver in Märzdorf, attended elementary school there and then passed his Matura with distinction in the Bohemian Braunau at the humanistic high school in 1933 . From 1933 to 1937 he studied Slavic , classical and German philology and Indo-European studies at the Charles University in Prague . His academic teachers included a. Ferdinand Liewehr (1896–1985), Edmund Schneeweis , Theodor Hopfner , Friedrich Slotty , Erich Gierach , Gerhard Gesemann and Ernst Otto .
His dissertation "The Old Czech Mastičkář", which was awarded the title summa cum laude , showed his profound knowledge of the Czech language . After obtaining his doctorate , he was accepted into the Czechoslovak civil service to teach the Czech and Latin languages. On October 1, 1938, the Sudetenland was initially annexed by Nazi Germany . The remaining remaining Czechoslovakia as the remaining Second Czechoslovak Republic was dissolved in the spring of 1939. A Slovak state emerged , Germany annexed the Czech region as a protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Hungary the Carpathian Ukraine . In 1946, Schmidt settled in the area of the then Soviet occupation zone with its political and social goals and efforts to rebuild anti-fascist and democratic structures, so Schmidt also felt connected in the field of language teaching and didactics . After the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on October 7, 1949, he worked from 1953 as a teacher and leader in various secondary schools, as a part-time adult education center lecturer and as a consultant, department head and main department head in the Ministry of Popular Education for Thuringia .
In Erfurt he worked as a professor at the Erfurt University of Education from 1953 and then from 1958 until his retirement in 1979 at the “Karl Liebknecht” University of Education in Potsdam . He completed his habilitation in 1963 on the subject of “Lexical and Current Meaning; a contribution to the theory of word meaning ”.
While he was working at the Potsdam University of Education, Schmidt founded the “Institute for Marxist-Leninist Language Theory in Language Teacher Training” in 1972. Schmidt accompanied a number of committees and organizational structures in the GDR, including his membership in the "Council for Linguistics" at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , in the "Scientific Council" of the "Institute for Social Science Education" of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR and his Membership in the editorial board of the " Journal for Phonetics, Linguistics and Communication Research (ZPSK)".
Works (selection)
- German Linguistics: A handbook for teachers and students with an introduction to the problems of language teaching. Verl. Volk u. Wissen, Berlin 1959, new edition IFB, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 3-931263-77-0
- Lexical and current meaning; a contribution to the theory of word meaning. Akademie-Verlag , Berlin 1963
- Language and ideology; Contributions to a Marxist-Leninist research on the effects of language. M. Niemeyer , Halle (Saale) 1972
- History of the German language. A textbook for studying German. 10th, improved and expanded edition, developed under the direction of Helmut Langner and Norbert Richard Wolf, S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-7776-1432-7
- Basic questions of German grammar: an introduction to functional language theory. Volk und Wissen publishing house , Berlin 1965
- Language - education and upbringing. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1977
- Speech, conversation, discussion: basics and exercises. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1977
- On the concept of function in modern linguistics, especially in the functional-communicative approach to language. Journal for Phonetics, Linguistics and Communication Research 35, (1982) 1: 9-18.
- Wilhelm Schmidt, Eberhard Stock: Speech, conversation, discussion: basics and exercises. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1979.
- Wilhelm Schmidt (Hrsg.): Functional-communicative language description: theoretical-methodical foundation. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1981
literature
- Jan Cölln, Franz-Josef Holznagel: Positions of German Studies in the GDR: People - Research Fields - Organizational Forms. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-11-022384-8
- Norbert Otto Eke: “After the Wall, the Abyss” ?: (Re) approaches to GDR literature. Vol. 83 Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2013, ISBN 94-012-0921-9 , p. 32
- Gerda Haßler : The functional-communicative approach to language: the genesis and demise of a paradigm. Lecture given on July 21, 2007, at the “XIXth International Colloquium of the SGdS (Study Group History of Linguistics)” University of Helsinki, July 18-22, 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Schmidt in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Wilhelm Schmidt. deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice of Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Wilhelm Schmidt. Obituaries, doolia.de
- ↑ Laudation: Wilhelm Schmidet. De Gruyter
- ↑ Norbert Otto Eke: “After the Wall, the Abyss” ?: (Re) approaches to GDR literature. Vol. 83 Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies, Rodopi, Amsterdam 2013, ISBN 94-012-0921-9 , p. 32
- ↑ obituary. In memoriam Ferdinand Liewehr. Ζ. Slav. 31 (1986) 2, 318-31 9
- ^ R. Fischer: Ferdinand Liewehr on his 60th birthday.
- ↑ The first Czech theater play "Mastičkář" was written in the early Middle Ages.
- ^ Jan Cölln, Franz-Josef Holznagel: Positions of German Studies in the GDR: People - Fields of Research - Forms of Organization. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-11-022384-8 , p. 12 f.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist, Slavist, university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1914 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | March village (Bohemia) |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1982 |
Place of death | Potsdam-Babelsberg |