Hans Joachim Störig

Hans Joachim Störig ( born July 25, 1915 in Quenstedt; † 10 September 2012 in Munich) was a German non-fiction author and lexicographer.

Life

Störig studied history, philosophy, sociology and law in Freiburg, Cologne, Königsberg, Basel, Hamburg and Berlin and earned his PhD. and Dr. jur. An academic career was denied to him in the time of National Socialism for political reasons. After 1945 he worked as a publisher, author, editor and translator. He was from 1956 to 1963 director of the publishing house Cotta and then to 1983 the publisher lexicographic Institute in Munich. From 1990 he taught as an honorary professor for " German as a Foreign Language " at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.

Störig was, among other things known for his lexicographical works, such as " The Great Störig. Knaurs great dictionary of the German language. " His most famous book was the first time in 1950 published "The Small World History of Philosophy ", which reached a total circulation of nearly 1 million copies over the years. The work has been revised and expanded several times ( most recently in 1999 ) and translated into six languages. Störig knew how to present the main ideas of philosophy in a clear, generally understandable language. This can say that. " Small world history of science ", first in 1953 published, in which the bold task is undertaken to explain the entire history of science of the Egyptians, to Freud and Einstein to about 800 pages and over Störigs second great historical work

A third widely read standard work succeeded Störig with " Knaurs modern astronomy " (1972 ), which was last revised in 1992 thoroughly. Störig, who was an avid amateur astronomer, knew here again, to describe complex relationships understandable.

The same applies to his work " Adventure Language - a foray into the languages ​​of the earth" ( 2nd edition 2002). The book describes the development history of the languages ​​of the world, the particularities and commonalities of languages ​​, fonts, and the deciphering of the development and spread of language families and individual languages ​​, and the development and history of art - world or auxiliary languages ​​such as Esperanto.

Störigs published under a pseudonym guidebook " High School of the Secretary " and " The ax in the house" were also very successful long seller.

Hans Joachim Störig last lived in Munich.

Works (selection)

  • Small world history of philosophy, 1950
  • Small world history of science, 1953
  • High school secretary ( with Martha Maria Gehrke, under the pseudonym Walter Joachim ), 1955
  • The ax in the house. A Guide for Skilled and Unskilled ( under the pseudonym Otto foreman ), 1956
  • Mighty is the word. Publisher human and labor, Munich 1962. An annual gift of factory magazine WORKS AND WE Hoesch AG for its readers in 1963. Dedicated to the memory of Wolf Niebelschütz, the first annual gift in 1956 designed dedicated. Texts and Interpretations: Silent Night. Joseph Mohr / Franz Gruber; Mighty is the word. ; The death of the righteous. Socrates; The Law of Monte Cassino. Benedict of Nursia; A song in praise of creation and death. Francis of Assisi; God help me! Amen. Martin Luther; And yet it moves. Nicolaus Copernicus; A man breaks the Malleus. Christian Thomasius; More than a thousand thousand years. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Of the innate rights.; Proletarians of all countries, unite! Karl Marx; Cry of the humble. Harriet Beecher Stowe; Abraham Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln; All are brothers! Henry Dunant; The Basic Law of a better world. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Knaurs modern astronomy, 1972
  • Adventure Language - a foray into the languages ​​of the Earth, 1987
  • Splitter. Outline of a biography, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86520-353-3 ( autobiography)

As an editor:

  • Large Danubia lexicon. Book Club Danubia, Vienna 1966/1967 (4 vols )
  • Great Encyclopedia of Büchergilde. Books Gutenberg, Frankfurt / M. 1966-1968 (4 vols )
  • The Great Knaur. With 65 000 keywords. Earthscan, Munich (4 vols )

As an employee:

  • Ursula Herrmann include: Knaurs great dictionary of the German language. The big Störig. Earthscan, Munich 1985, 1120 pp., ISBN 3-426-26258-4 ( "Introduction and Notes for the user" and "Rules for spelling, punctuation or grammar" was created in collaboration by Ursula Hermann and Hans Joachim Störig ).

As editor:

  • The problem of translation ( = avenues of research; band VIII). University Press, Darmstadt 1963, 489 pp.
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