Reinhold Trautmann (16 January 1883 – 4 October 1951) was a

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Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

. He is best known for his translations of the works of Slavic literature, such as his 1931 translation of the

Primary Chronicle The ''Tale of Bygone Years'' ( orv, Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, translit=Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ; ; ; ; ), often known in English as the ''Rus' Primary Chronicle'', the ''Russian Primary Chronicle'', or simply the ...

into

. He also conducted research of Slavic languages spoken in Germany.

Biography

He was born in

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. Since 1910 he worked at the Universities in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

and (since 1948)

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

. He became known for his work on

Balto-Slavic The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European br ...

philology and Slavic folk poetry. In 1928-1931 he was a member of the German Democratic Party (since 1930 German State Party).

Harry Waibel Harry Weibel (born 20 June 1946) is a German historian. His main topics are neo-Nazism, right-wing extremism and antisemitism in the GDR and racism in Germany from 1945 to the present. Life Born in Lörrach, Waibel comes from a working-class fa ...

: ''Diener vieler Herren : Ehemalige NS-Funktionäre in der SBZ/DDR.'' Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2011 . 343 In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the Commitment of the German professors to Adolf Hitler. In 1937 he became a member of the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...

. In 1939 his treatise ''Die wendischen Ortsnamen Ostholsteins, Lübecks, Lauenburgs und Mecklenburgs '' ("The Slavic place names of East Holstein, Lübeck, Lauenburg and Mecklenburg") was banned for political reasons. From 1940 until his death he was a member of the

Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (german: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name ''Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences'' (german: Königlich Sächsische G ...

in Leipzig. After 1945 he supported the cultural orientation of the

Soviet occupation zone The Soviet Occupation Zone ( or german: Ostzone, label=none, "East Zone"; , ''Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii'', "Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany") was an area of Germany in Central Europe that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a ...

and the

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In t ...

towards the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

Works

* ''Die altpreußischen Sprachdenkmäler,'' 1910 * ''Baltisch-slavisches Wörterbuch'', Göttingen, 1923 * ''Slawisch-baltische Quellen und Forschungen'', 1927 * ''Wesen und Aufgaben der deutschen Slawistik'', 1927 (with H. Schmid) * ''Die Altrussische Nestorchronik in Übersetzung herausgegeben'', Markert & Peters, Leipzig 1931 * ''Die slawischen Völker und Sprachen'', Leipzig 1948 * ''Die elb- und ostseeslawischen Ortsnamen'', Berlin 1948-56

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Reinhold Trautmann, Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig
Slavists Linguists from Germany 1883 births 1951 deaths Writers from Königsberg Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin 20th-century linguists Nazi Party members Academic staff of the University of Jena {{Germany-linguist-stub

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