Wilhelm Schneider (Linguist)
Wilhelm Friedrich Schneider (born February 12, 1885 in Cologne , † January 11, 1979 in Bornheim , Rhineland ) was a German linguist , Germanist and educator .
Life
Family and education
Born in Cologne, Wilhelm Schneider, son of the engine driver Christian Schneider and his wife Gertrud nee Gruß, studied German, French philology and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1904 to 1908 after graduating from high school . Wilhelm Schneider was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .
Wilhelm Schneider married Katharina, née Nachtsheim, in 1942. He died in January 1979, one month before he would have turned 94, in Bornheim in the Rhineland.
Professional background
Wilhelm Schneider entered the school service after his academic years. In 1913 he took on a study council office in Eschweiler, which he interrupted by his participation in the First World War until his appointment as multiple senior teacher of German at Cologne Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium in 1929 held. At the same time, he took on a teaching position for stylistics of the German language at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1926 . Schneider received his habilitation in 1929 , in 1937 he was promoted to associate professor , in 1939 he was appointed adjunct professor for modern German language and literary history, and in 1961 he was retired.
Wilhelm Schneider emerged in particular as the author of stylistic treatises.
Publications (selection)
- New ways of creating style: A contribution to the renewal of essay teaching. W. Ehrig, Heidelberg, Frankfurt a. M., 1922
- Master of style on the theory of language and style: Contributions of contemporary poets and writers to the renewal of essay teaching. 2nd unchanged edition, BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1923
- Josef Ponten . German publishing company, Stuttgart 1924
- German art prose: Exercising the sense of language and style on prose pieces from the 19th century. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig, 1928
- Expressive values of the German language: a history of style. BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1931
- The German foreign poetry of our time. Weidmann, Berlin, 1936
- German style and essay lessons. 7th edition, Kompass-Verlag, Oberursel (Taunus), 1947
- Reverence for the German word: teaching and practice for everyone. 4th revised edition, Herder, Freiburg, 1950
- Love for the German poem: A companion for all friends of poetry. Herder, Freiburg, 1952
- Stylistic German grammar: The style values of the parts of speech, the word order and the sentence. Herder, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna, 1959
literature
- Walther Schoenichen : German studies in natural history lessons. in: Handbuch der Deutschkunde, Vol. 7., Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main, 1928, p. 207.
- Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2. 10th edition, W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1966, p. 2202.
- August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16. , Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1166.
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Volume 9. 2nd, revised and expanded edition, KG Saur, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 108.
- Ernst Jünger , Gerhard Nebel , Ulrich Fröschle (eds.), Michael Neumann (ed.): Ernst Jünger, Gerhard Nebel: letters 1938–1974. Klett-Cotta, 2003, Stuttgart, p. 511.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schneider, Wilhelm Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist, Germanist and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1979 |
| Place of death | Bornheim , Rhineland |