Wilhelm Schmidt (Germanist)

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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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice of Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Wilhelm Schmidt. Obituaries, doolia.de
  2. ↑ Laudation: Wilhelm Schmidet. De Gruyter
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ obituary. In memoriam Ferdinand Liewehr. Ζ. Slav. 31 (1986) 2, 318-31 9
  5. ^ R. Fischer: Ferdinand Liewehr on his 60th birthday.
  6. ↑ The first Czech theater play "Mastičkář" was written in the early Middle Ages.
  7. ^ 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
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