Otto Basler

Otto Basler ( born May 8, 1892 in Kitzingen, † May 28, 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German philologist and specialist in German.

Basler studied German and Romance languages ​​, English and history at the universities of Freiburg (including with Friedrich Kluge ) and Leipzig. At the First World War, he took part as a reserve officer in 1919 he passed the state examination. After the PhD. He was until 1925 worked as a librarian at the University of Freiburg until 1936, the German Army Library in Berlin and from 1936 to 1945 at the Bavarian Army Library in Munich. Since 1943 he has taught at the University of Munich, first as a lecturer for German philology and folklore, since 1947 as ao Professor, since 1952 until his retirement on its own Chair. Later he moved to Freiburg, where he taught as an honorary professor since 1959.

In 1923 he took over the editing of the excited by Friedrich Kluge and Hans Schulz ( † 1915) initiated the German foreign words book, from which he drew up Volume 2 (L -P, published 1942) and the first delivery of Volume 3 ( up to 1970, Letter Q). The early seventies gave Basel the grounds of age, the materials collected by him for the completion of the German foreign words book the Institute for German Language in Mannheim.

Basel was the Duden until 1933 publishers and was involved in the ( not being executed) reform of German orthography from 1944. After the end of the Second World War, he published his proposals for spelling reform in the Leibniz -Verlag.

Works

• German dictionary of foreign words. Started by Hans Schulz, continued by Otto Basler. Vol 2: L -P. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1942.
• German spelling. Rules and dictionary. Leibniz, Munich 1948.