Wolfgang Krause

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Wolfgang Krause
Born(1895-09-18)18 September 1895
Steglitz, Germany
Died14 August 1970(1970-08-14) (aged 74)
Göttingen, Germany
NationalityGerman
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorEduard Hermann
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
  • Indo-European linguistics
Institutions
Main interestsRunology

Wolfgang Krause (18 September 1895,

Germanic studies, Old Norse and particularly runology
.

Life and career

Wolfgang Krause was born in

PhD in Indo-European in 1920, and his habilitation in Old Norse in 1923.[1]

In 1928, Krause was appointed an associate professor at Göttingen. He was subsequently made Chair of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Königsberg. While at Göttingen, he became increasingly interested in runology.[2]

Krause returned to Göttingen in 1937 to succeed Hermann as Chair of Indo-European Linguistics. In 1938, he was made Chair of Indo-European Studies and Runology and also succeeded Neckel as Director of the Department for Old Norse Philology.[2] The same year he founded a separate Institut für Runenforschung (Institute for Runology) at the university.[1][2][3] In 1938 he was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

In 1940, troubled by the dwindling resources for independent academic institutions in wartime, he placed the institute under the sponsorship of the

Nazi party.[8][9]

Krause remained in his position after

Professor Emeritus, after which the directorship of the two departments was again divided. A festschrift was published in his honor on his 65th birthday, and on his 70th birthday, students at the University of Göttingen honoured him with a torchlight procession.[2]
He died in Göttingen on 14 August 1970.

For more than thirty years, Krause had been one of the most influential personalities at the University of Göttingen, not only because of his scientific achievements, but also because of his abilities as an educator.

Germanic studies.[1]

Personal life

Krause had an eye ailment from early childhood. During the 1930s, his sight deteriorated considerably, and in the postwar years he became completely blind.[2][10] He used Braille texts and in deciphering runic inscriptions was assisted by his wife, Agnes.[10] Students of his such as Hertha Marquardt also received stipends to assist him.[2]

Selected publications

  • Die Wortstellung in den zweigliedrigen Wortverbindungen. Dissertation, Göttingen 1920
  • Die Frau in der Sprache der altisländischen Familiengeschichte. Habilitation thesis, 1923
  • Die Kelten. Tübingen 1929
  • Was man in Runen ritzte. Halle 1935
  • Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark. Halle 1937, rev. ed. Göttingen 1966
  • Das irische Volk: Seine rassischen und kulturellen Grundlagen. Göttingen 1940
  • Westtocharische Grammatik. Heidelberg 1952
  • Handbuch des Gotischen. Munich 1953, 3rd ed. 1968
  • Tocharisches Elementarbuch volume 1, Grammatik. Heidelberg 1960
  • "Zum Namen des Lachses". In Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, philologisch-historische Klasse, Göttingen 1961, pp. 83–89
  • Runen. Berlin 1970
  • Die Sprache der urnordischen Runeninschriften. Heidelberg 1971

References

  1. ^ a b c d Düwel 2000, pp. 320–324.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Paul 1985.
  3. ISBN 963-9776-18-1, p. 180
    .
  4. University of Gießen, established in 1939: Gerd Simon with Dagny Guhr and Ulrich Schermaul, Chronologie Arntz, Helmut
    , 20 July 2007, revised 26 September 2007, retrieved 1 September 2010 (pdf), p. 3 (in German).
  5. ^ According to Mees, p. 181, Krause reported on Arntz' activities to the Ahnenerbe.
  6. ISBN 3-486-56529-X, pp. 196–97
    (in German); Kater uses "the internationally respected runologist" Krause as an example of academics placing themselves under the wing of the Ahnenerbe out of a need to preserve themselves and their work after the war began.
  7. ^ However, Mees, p. 181, points to his own work in pre-runic ideographs and says that while he "reserv[ed] his approbation for amateur advocates of ideographic studies", he "accommodat[ed] previously amateur adherents to Wirth's theories within German academia".
  8. Red Cross
    . . . Membership in the other important divisions of the party is ruled out on account of my eye ailment and the limitations resulting from it".)
  9. ^ Mees, p. 263.
  10. ^
    ISBN 3-89244-485-4, p. 486
    (in German).

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