Wolfgang Beck (Germanist)

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Wolfgang Beck (born April 20, 1971 in Würzburg ) is a German Germanic Medievalist .

Beck studied German language and literature and history in Würzburg from 1991 to 1997 . The doctorate took place there in 2002 with an old Germanic topic "The Merseburg Magic ", published in 2003 in the series Imagines Medii Aevi as a new standard work. At the University of Jena , he completed his habilitation in 2010 with a thesis on the transmission history of German literature from the Middle Ages in Thuringia (published in 2017).

Beck has represented professorships in Augsburg, Jena and Leipzig. At the moment he is a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation. He researches and publishes on the transmission history of medieval German literatures, on the regional literary history of Thuringia, on the historical dialectology of Middle High German, on the Old High German language and literature, on runology and on Germanic and medieval mythology and religious history as well as on Old Germanic poetry. As an author, he has written articles on the second edition of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde from volume 25 as well as old German and old Scandinavian articles on the Metzler Lexicon Literature in the 3rd revised edition from 2007.

Works

Monographs

  • The Merseburg magic spells. Wiesbaden 2003 (= Imagines Medii Aevi 16) 2nd, corrected edition Wiesbaden 2011.
  • The Merseburg magic spells. An introduction. Extended 2nd edition. Petersberg 2015 (= Small Writings of the United Cathedral Founders of Merseburg and Naumburg and the Zeitz Collegiate Foundation, Vol. 8).
  • German literature of the Middle Ages in Thuringia. A story of transmission. Stuttgart 2017 (= supplements to the magazine for German antiquity and German literature 26).

Contributions in selection

  • Runic feha. Names of things to do with the Weingarten S primer. In: Historische Sprachforschung 114 (2001), pp. 309-318.
  • birenkict. To a horse's foot of the second Merseburg magic spell. In: insprinc haptbandun. Lectures of the colloquium on the Merseburg magic spells at the XI. Symposium of the Indo-European Society in Halle / Saale (September 17-23, 2000). Edited by Heiner Eichner and Robert Nedoma. Part I. [= The language. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 41 (1999; year of publication: 2002)], pp. 89–103.
  • Fulda and the Merseburg magic spells. In: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter 80 (2004), pp. 45–66.
  • Snorri Sturluson. The myth of the north. In: Artists, Poets, Scholars. With the collaboration of Margarete Springeth ed. by Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich. Konstanz 2005 (= Medieval Myths 4), pp. 963–979.
  • New fragments of the 'Psalm Commentary' by the Austrian Bible translator from the Altenburg / Thuringia State Archives. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 136 (2007), pp. 68–71.
  • Limits and possibilities of a corpus creation of German literature of the Middle Ages in Thuringia. In: East Central German written languages ​​in the late Middle Ages. Edited by Luise Czajkowski, Corinna Hoffmann and Hans Ulrich Schmid. Berlin 2007, pp. 154-164.
  • An 'Erfurter Hauspostille'. On the origin and tradition of the sermon collection 'Paradisus anime intelligentis'. In: Medieval language and literature in Eisenach and Erfurt. Conference on the occasion of Rudolf Bentzinger's 70th birthday on August 22, 2006. Edited by Annegret Haase, Martin J. Schubert and Jürgen Wolf. (= Culture, science, literature. Contributions to medieval research 18). Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 104–121.
  • News about the runic inscription on the golden bracteate Schonen II-C. In: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies 65 (2009), pp. 11–25.
  • mise en abyme in the 'Frauendienst' Ulrichs von Liechtenstein. In: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 248 (2011), pp. 258–269.
  • The Würzburg market descriptions - aspects of a reassessment. In: Sprachwissenschaft 38 (2013), pp. 211–226.
  • The expernancz would be difficult - to the 'Mörin' Hermanns von Sachsenheim. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 142 (2013), pp. 490–497.
  • The runic inscription on the belt buckle of Pforzen as a testimony to the Germanic heroic saga? In: Futhark. International Journal of Runic Studies 7 (2016, publ. 2017), pp. 29–45.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 26th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030256-1 , Vol. 1, p. 185.

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personal data
SURNAME Beck, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanic Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg