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Siegfried Gutenbrunner (26 May 1906 – 23 November 1984) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in
Germanic studies Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary tex ...
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Biography

Siegfried Gutenbrunner was born in
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, Austria on 26 May 1906. He gained his PhD in
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at the
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in 1931. After gaining his
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at Vienna, Gutenbrunner served there as
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(1936–1939) and
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(1939–1943). Since 1943, Gutenbrunner was associate professor of Germanic and
Scandinavian studies Scandinavian studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of area studies, mainly in the United States and Germany, that primarily focuses on the Scandinavian languages (also known as North Germanic languages) and cultural studies pertaining to ...
at the
Reichsuniversität Straßburg The Reichsuniversität Straßburg (RUS) was founded 1941 by the National Socialists in Alsace, annexed to Nazi Germany, while the regular University of Strasbourg moved to Clermont-Ferrand in 1940. The purpose was to create a continuity to the G ...
. After the end of
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, held a chair at the
University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
. Since 1950, Gutenbrunner served as associate professor (1950–1955) and professor (1955–1975) of Germanic and Nordic philology at the
University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...
. At Freiburg, Gutenbrunner founded the Seminar for Scandinavian Studies in 1963. Gutenbrunner retired as
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in 1975, and died in
Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...
on 23 November 1984.


See also

*
Otto Höfler Otto Eduard Gotfried Ernst Höfler (10 May 1901 – 25 August 1987) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A student of Rudolf Much, Höfler was Professor and Chair of German Language and Old German Literature at the Univ ...
* Richard Wolfram * Walter Steinhauser


Selected works

* ''Die Germanischen Götternamen der Antiken Inschriften'', 1936 * ''Germanische Frühzeit in den Berichten der Antike'', 1939 * ''Schleswig-Holsteins älteste Literatur, von der Kimbernzeit bis zur Gudrundichtung'', 1949 * ''Historische Laut- und Formenlehre des Altisländischen'', 1951 * ''Von Hildebrand und Hadubrand'', 1976


Sources

* Elias H. Füllenbach, Gutenbrunner, Siegfried, in: '' Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950.'' Band 1: ''A–G.'', hrsg. von Christoph König unter Mitarbeit von Birgit Wägenbaur de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2003, , S. 640–642. 1906 births 1984 deaths Austrian non-fiction writers Austrian philologists Germanists Germanic studies scholars Old Norse studies scholars Scandinavian studies scholars University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Freiburg Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of the University of Vienna Writers on Germanic paganism 20th-century philologists {{Austria-linguist-stub