Heinrich Beck (philologist)

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Heinrich Beck
Born(1929-04-02)2 April 1929
Nördlingen, Germany
Died5 June 2019(2019-06-05) (aged 90)
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1988)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineGermanic 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.
  • .

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