Helmut Glück (born 23 July 1949,
Stuttgart
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) is a German linguist.
Life
Helmut Glück studied
German studies
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,
Scandinavian studies
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and
Slavic studies
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in Tübingen and Bochum and worked at the universities of
Osnabrück,
Hannover
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,
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,
Siegen
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and
Cairo
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. From 1991 to 2015 he was professor of German Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language at the
University of Bamberg
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Campus
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.
Glück's studies are principally concerned with the German language as a foreign language, its history and its politics (e.g. discussion of German linguistic science). He edits the ''Metzler Lexikon Sprache'', now in its fourth edition, 700 of whose articles are also by him.
He is the speaker of the jury for the Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache, an annual award supporting the creative development of the German language.
Works
Monographs
* ''Die Fremdsprache Deutsch im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, der Klassik und der Romantik. Grundzüge der deutschen Sprachgeschichte in Europa''. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, .
* with Yvonne Pörzgen: ''Deutschlernen in Russland und in den baltischen Ländern vom 17. Jahrhundert bis 1941''. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, .
* with Ineta Polanska: ''
Johann Ernst Glück (1654–1705): Pastor, Philologe, Volksaufklärer im Baltikum und in Russland.'' (= ''Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart.'' Bd. 1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, .
* ''Deutsch als Fremdsprache in Europa vom Mittelalter bis zur Barockzeit.'' de Gruyter, Berlin 2002, .
* ''Schrift und Schriftlichkeit. Eine sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Studie.'' Metzler, Stuttgart 1987, . (Zugleich: Habilitations-Schrift. Universität Hannover, 1984)
* with Wolfgang Werner Sauer: ''Gegenwartsdeutsch.'' (= ''Sammlung Metzler'' 252). Metzler, Stuttgart u. a. 1990, . (2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. ebenda 1997, ).
As editor
* ''Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart.'' Bd. 1–lfd., 2005–lfd., .
* ''Die Geschichte des Deutschen als Fremdsprache.'' Bd. 1–lfd., 2002–lfd., .
* ''Metzler-Lexikon Sprache.'' Metzler, Stuttgart u. a. 1993, (4., aktualisierte und überarbeitete Auflage. ebenda 2010, ; 5. Aufl. mit Michael Rödel als Mitherausgeber, 2016, ).
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CV*
Detailed CV(PDF-Datei; 15 kB)
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Living people
Scientists from Stuttgart
1949 births
Germanists