Wolfgang Pollak

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Wolfgang Pollak (born November 28, 1915 in Mürzzuschlag ; † January 9, 1995 in Vienna ) was an Austrian linguist and university professor .

Life

During the time of National Socialism , as the son of a Jewish father (Adolf Pollak, a brother of Joseph Delmont ), he was refused to take the teaching examination for racist reasons.After his dismissal as a half-Jew from the Wehrmacht , he was granted a doctorate as a Dr. . phil. allowed with Dietrich Kralik . He completed his studies with a doctorate in German and Romance studies .

In the school year 1947/1948 he taught German and French at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna . 1958 took place the habilitation with Johann Sofer for Romance philology (linguistic direction) at the University of Vienna. He subsequently led proseminars , and in 1961 a scientific training course at the University of Bucharest. From 1963 to 1970 he was Professor of Romance Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and from 1970 to his retirement in 1985 he took over a chair in Romance studies at the University of Vienna .

Pollak was temporarily chairman of the university professors' section in the Association of Social Democratic Academics (BSA). From 1970 to 1973 he was chairman of the Association of Austrian New Philologists . From 1987 to 1995 he was President of the Austrian Society for Semiotics (ÖGS).

On January 19, 1995, he was buried in the Hernals cemetery . His wife Mag. Michèle Pollak, who repeatedly supported him - both as a competent linguist and as a native French speaker - taught at the Institute for Romance Studies and retired in 2008.

Works and literature

  • Pitfalls of the French and German vocabulary = Pièges des vocabulaires allemandes et français , Gerold, Vienna 1956
  • Language and writing. Their basic relationship to one another , in: Education and Teaching , Österreichischer Bundesverlag., 1956, p. 400
  • Studies on the “verbal aspect” in French , Rudolf M. Rohrer, Vienna 1960
  • Conditions for the possibility of a socialist school reform , special print from: Freie Lehrerstimme, 78th year, 1972, No. 4
  • Strategies for emancipation. Educational policy, didactics and sociolinguistics (Volume 110 of Pedagogy of the Present ), Youth and People, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-8113-5337-3
  • The role of dialect in education and culture , in: Dia-lect. 1st year, 1977, 2nd issue
  • Wolfgang Bandhauer, Robert Tanzmeister (Ed.): Integrative Romance Studies. Festschrift for Wolfgang Pollak (Volume 13 of Viennese Romanist Works , contributions partly in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish), Braumüller, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7003-0536-2 , ISBN 3-7003-0639-3
  • with Derek Rutter: German Identity - Forty Years after Zero , Liberal Verlag, St. Augustin, 1986
  • with Michèle Pollak: Studies on the verbal aspect with special consideration of French , Lang, Bern 1988, ISBN 3-261-03780-6
  • What do Austrians think of their German? A linguistic and socio-semiotic analysis of the linguistic identity of Austrians , ÖGS / ISSS (Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies), Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900494-16-9 &
  • Austria and Europe: Linguistic and national identity , ÖGS / ISSS, Vienna 1994 ISBN 3-900494-19-3
  • On the linguistic identity of Austrians , in: [Jeff Bernard], Gloria Withalm (ed.): Identity - Identity - Identité. Files from the 7th Symposium of the Austrian Society for Semiotics, Sigharting 1990. Dedicated to Wolfgang Pollak (1915–1995) , (Volume 13 of Applied Semiotics ), Austrian Society for Semiotics, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-900494-15-0
  • with Wolfgang Bandhauer, Robert Tanzmeister: Linguistic block seminars for Romanists. A contribution to the innovation of university didactics in Austria , Facultas Digitaldr., Vienna 2008
Obituaries
  • Bernhard Jeff: In memoriam Wolfgang Pollak (November 28, 1915– January 9, 1995) , in: Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Volume 18, 1996, No. 1, pp. 105–113
  • In memoriam Wolfgang Pollak ( Semiotic Reports ), ÖGS 1996 (104 pp.)
  • Georg Kremnitz: Wolfgang Pollak - the linguist and Romanist , Semiotic Reports, 20th year, 1996, p. 13
  • Wolfgang Pollak (1915–1995): Enlightenment - researcher - teacher. Chairman of the VÖN from 1970–1973 . In: Moderne Sprachen , Vol. 39–41, 1995, Verband der Österreichischen Neuphilologen , pp. 91–94

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Helmut Christmann , Frank-Rutger Hausmann , Manfred Briegel (eds.): German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism (Volume 10 of Romanica et comparatistica ), Stauffenburg, 1989, ISBN 3-923721-60-9 , p. 18 , 232, 234
  2. ^ Robert Winter: The Academic Gymnasium in Vienna: Past and Present , Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1996, ISBN 3-205-98485-4 , p. 141 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ^ Thierry Elsen: Round anniversaries at the Viennese Romance Studies , April 9, 2009, Elise and Helene Richter - Weblog
  4. ^ Jeff Bernard: Semiotica Austriaca , ÖGS, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900494-07-X , p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Pollak, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Mürzzuschlag
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1995
Place of death Vienna