Heinrich Beck (philologist)
Heinrich Beck | |
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Born | Nördlingen, Germany | 2 April 1929
Died | 5 June 2019 Munich, Germany | (aged 90)
Nationality | German |
Awards | Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1988) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Germanic philology |
Institutions | |
Notable students | |
Main interests | Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (1968-2008) |
Heinrich Beck (born 2 April 1929 – 5 June 2019) was a German philologist who specialized in
Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde and one of the world's leading experts on early Germanic culture
.
Biography
Hermann Beck was born
Germanic studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1962. He completed his habilitation
in Germanic studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1967.
From 1968 to 1978, Beck was Professor of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at Saarland University. From 1978 until his retirement in 1994, Beck was Professor of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at the University of Bonn.
Beck specialized in the study of
Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, to which he contributed many articles. He subsequently contributed significantly to Germanische Altertumskunde Online. Beck was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon
in 1988, and an honorary doctor's degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2002.
See also
Selected works
- Einige vendelzeitliche Bilddenkmäler und die literarische Überlieferung, 1964
- Das Ebersignum im Germanischen, 1965
- (Co-editor) Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 1973–2015
- (Co-editor) Untersuchungen zur eisenzeitlichen und frühmittelalterlichen Flur in Mitteleuropa und ihrer Nutzung, 1979-1980
- (Editor) Arbeiten zur Skandinavistik: 6, 1985
- (Editor) Germanenprobleme in heutiger Sicht, 1986
- (Editor) Heldensage und Heldendichtung im Germanischen, 1988
- (Editor) Germanische Rest- und Trümmersprachen, 1989
- (Editor) Germanische Religionsgeschichte, 1992
- (Editor) Snorri Sturlusons Sicht der paganen Vorzeit, 1994
- (Co-editor) Haus und Hof in ur- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit, 1997
- (Co-editor) De consolatione philologiae, 2000
- (Editor) Studien zur Isländersaga, 2000
- (Co-editor) Zur Geschichte der Gleichung "germanisch-deutsch", 2004
- (Co-editor) Germanische Altertumskunde Online, 2010-
- (Co-editor) Altertumskunde, Altertumswissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft, 2012
- (Co-editor) Snorri Sturluson: Historiker, Dichter, Politiker, 2013
Sources
- "Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinrich Beck". University of Bonn (in German). Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ISBN 3-8233-5001-3.
External links
- Heinrich Beck at the website of the University of Bonn