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Reallexikon Der Germanischen Altertumskunde
''Germanische Altertumskunde Online'', formerly called ''Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde'', is a German encyclopedia of the study of Germanic history and cultures, as well as the cultures that were in close contact with them. The first edition of the ''Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde'' appeared in four volumes between 1911 and 1919, edited by Johannes Hoops. The second edition, under the auspices of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, was edited by Heinrich Beck (from vol 1, 1968/72), Heiko Steuer (from vol. 8, 1991/94), Rosemarie Müller (from 1992), and Dieter Geuenich (from vol. 13, 1999), and was published by Walter de Gruyter in 35 volumes between 1968 and 2008. In 2010, the most recent version was published, now renamed ''Germanische Altertumskunde Online''. Edited by Heinrich Beck, Heiko Steuer, Dieter Geuenich, Wilhelm Heizmann, Sebastian Brather, Steffen Patzold and Sigmund Oehrl Benjamin Sigmund Oehrl (born 21 November 1979) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Hoops
Johannes Hoops (born 20 July 1865 - 14 April 1949) was a German philologist who was Professor of English philology at the University of Heidelberg. He is best known as the publisher of the first edition of the ''Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde'' (1911-1919). Biography Johannes Hoops was born in Bremen, Germany on 20 July 1865. He initially studied mathematics and the natural sciences at the universities of Jena and Freiburg, and philology and business. He gained his PhD at the University of Freiburg in 1889 with a dissertation on Old English plant names. Hoops taught at the University of Tübingen from 1893 to 1896. Since 1896, Hoops was Associate Professor, and from 1902 Professor, of English philology at the University of Heidelberg. Throughout his career, Hoops was the editor of several journals on English philology. Hoops became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1932, and a Corresponding Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göttingen Academy Of Sciences And Humanities
The Göttingen Academy of Sciences (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)Note that the German ''Wissenschaft'' has a wider meaning than the English "Science", and includes Social sciences and Humanities. is the second oldest of the seven academies of sciences in Germany. It has the task of promoting research under its own auspices and in collaboration with academics in and outside Germany. It has its seat in the university town of Göttingen. History The '' Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften'' ("Royal Society of Sciences") was founded in 1751 by King George II of Great Britain, who was also Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover), the German state in which Göttingen was located. The first president was the Swiss natural historian and poet Albrecht von Haller. It was renamed the "Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen" in 1939. Among the learned societies in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Göttingen academy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Beck (philologist)
Heinrich Beck (born 2 April 1929 - 5 June 2019) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A Professor of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at Saarland University and later the University of Bonn, Beck was a co-editor of the second edition of ''Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde'' and one of the world's leading experts on early Germanic culture. Biography Hermann Beck was born Nördlingen, Germany on 2 April 1929. Gaining his abitur in Munich in 1949, Beck studied German, Scandinavian and linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Reykjavík University. He gained his PhD in Nordic philology and 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 Ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiko Steuer
Heiko Steuer (born 30 October 1939) is a German archaeologist, notable for his research into social and economic history in early Europe. He serves as co-editor of Germanische Altertumskunde Online. Career Heiko Steuer was born on 30 October, 1939, in Braunschweig, Germany. From 1960 until 1969 he studied in Göttingen and Tübingen, first studying mathematics and physics, and then prehistory and early history. In 1976 he was appointed director of the Kölnischen Stadtmuseums ( de), the Cologne City Museum; he held the position until 1984. During this time, in 1979, Steuer habilitated himself, on studies of prehistory and early history at the Ruhr University Bochum. Steuer stepped down from the Cologne City Museum in 1984, the same year he became a full professor of prehistory and early history at the University of Freiburg and also director of the Institute of Prehistory and Archeology of the Middle Ages. He retired from the university in 2005. During his career, Steuer resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Geuenich
Dieter Geuenich (born 17 February 1943) is a German historian who specializes in the history of Germanic peoples. Biography Dieter Geuenich was born on 17 February 1943 in Bad Honnef, Germany. He studied history, Germanistics, theology and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Münster, and received his PhD at Münster in 1972 under the supervision of Karl Schmid. From 1972 to 1982, Geuenich was a research assistant in history at the University of Freiburg. He gained his habilitation at Freiburg in 1981, and subsequently served as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Freiburg from 1982 to 1987. He was appointed Chair of Medieval History at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 1989. He has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo (1992-1993) and University of Los Angeles (1994). Geuenich became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2000. From 2004 to 2008, he was Professor at the University of Duisburg-Ess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Berlin the royal privilege to open a bookstore and "to publish good and useful books". In 1800, the store was taken over by Georg Reimer (1776–1842), operating as the ''Reimer'sche Buchhandlung'' from 1817, while the school’s press eventually became the ''Georg Reimer Verlag''. From 1816, Reimer used the representative Sacken'sche Palace on Berlin's Wilhelmstraße for his family and the publishing house, whereby the wings contained his print shop and press. The building became a meeting point for Berlin salon life and later served as the official residence of the president of Germany. Born in Ruhrort in 1862, Walter de Gruyter took a position with Reimer Verlag in 1894. By 1897, at the age of 35, he had become sole proprietor of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Heizmann
Wilhelm Heizmann (born 5 September 1953) is a German philologist who is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich. Heizmann specializes in Germanic studies, and is a co-editor of the ''Germanische Altertumskunde Online''. Biography Wilhelm Heizmann was born in Eggenfelden, Germany on 5 September 1953. From 1974 to 1981, Heizmann studied German philology, ancient and medieval history, ethnology, Nordic philology and Germanic Antiquity at the University of Munich and the University of Vienna. He received his MA at Munich. From 1981 to 1982, Heizmann studied at the University of Oxford and the University of London. With funding from the German Academic Exchange Service, Heizmann subsequently stayed for two years as a researcher at the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen, during which he also conducted research at Reykjavík University. He held a scholarship at the Studienstiftung from 1983 to 1984. From 1984 to 1993, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Brather
Sebastian Brather (born 28 June 1964) is a German medieval archaeologist and co-editor of ''Germanische Altertumskunde Online''. Career Brather received his PhD in archaeology from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1995 with a thesis '' Feldberger Keramik und frühe Slawen: Studien zur nordwestslawischen Keramik der Karolingerzeit''. In 2002 his habilitation thesis in University of Freiburg was ''Ethnische Interpretationen in der frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie: Geschichte, Grundlagen und Alternativen''. In the next two years worked as research assistant at Goethe University in Frankfurt and Main, to return to Freiburg where taught as a holder of GRF scholarship. Since 2006 has been Professor of Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology at the same university. A member of the Historical Commission for Silesia and German Archaeological Institute, since 2003 is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval ''Archaeology'' and since 2011 contributes as co-editor to the ''Germanische Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffen Patzold
Steffen Patzold (born 1 September 1972) is a German historian. Patzold is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tübingen and specializes in the study of the study of political and religious history of the Carolingian Empire. Biography Steffen Patzold was born in Hanover, Germany on 1 September 1972. Patzold studied history, art history and journalism at the University of Hamburg from 1991 to 1996, gaining his MA in history under the supervision of Hans-Werner Goetz. He gained his PhD in 1999. From 2000 to 2006, Patzold was the assistant of Goetz. He completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 2006. Since 2007, Patzold has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tübingen. Patzold specializes in the study of political and religious history of the Carolingian Empire. He is a Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (German: ''Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Oehrl
Benjamin Sigmund Oehrl (born 21 November 1979) is a German archaeologist and philologist who specializes in Germanic studies. Biography Sigmund Oehrl was born in Kassel, Germany on 21 November 1979. He studied prehistory, protohistory, and German and Nordic philology at the University of Göttingen, gaining his master's degree with distinction in 2004. Oehrl subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Seminar for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Göttingen, and was in 2006 awarded a doctoral scholarship by the . He received his Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Göttingen in 2008 with a thesis on runestones in Sweden. From 2009 to 2014, Oehrl was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and a researcher on runic at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2014, where he gained his habilitation on Old Norse philology and prehistoric archaeology in 2016. He has subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedias Of Culture And Ethnicity
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name or by thematic categories, or else are hyperlinked and searchable. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries. Generally speaking, encyclopedia articles focus on '' factual information'' concerning the subject named in the article's title; this is unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, such as their etymology, meaning, pronunciation, use, and grammatical forms.Béjoint, Henri (2000)''Modern Lexicography'', pp. 30–31. Oxford University Press. Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years and have evolved considerably during that time as regards language (written in a major international or a verna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
