Wolfgang Krause

Wolfgang Krause (born 18 September 1895 in Steglitz; † August 14, 1970 in Göttingen ) was a German linguist. His research focuses initially belonged Celtic Studies and Tocharistik, later Norse philology and especially runology.

Life

Krause studied from 1914 to 1920 in Berlin and Göttingen Classical Philology and Indo. He took over in 1929 the Department of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Königsberg, where he specialized in Old Norse culture history and especially runes. During the 1930s his eyesight faded badly; after the war he was blind. Krause moved to Göttingen in 1937 and established an institute for research runes. 1943/44, he headed belonging to the SS - Ahnenerbe organization of teaching and research center for runes and allegory customer, which he demarcated by a similar institution of its competitors Helmut Arntz.

Krause was not a party member and remained after the war ended in office. 1950, he led Nordic department was merged with the Institute of runes for Scandinavian Seminar and Krause appointed director of the new facility. At the same time Krause remained head of the Linguistics Seminar. In 1963 he became Professor Emeritus, after which the personal union of the seminar lines went out. 70th birthday in 1965, organized students from Göttingen in his honor a torchlight.

Works (selection)

  • The word order in the two-part phrases. Diss Göttingen 1920
  • The woman in the language of the Old Icelandic family history. Habilitation thesis, 1923
  • The Celts. Tübingen 1929
  • Runic inscriptions in the Elder Futhark. Hall 1937, Göttingen 1966
  • The Irish people. His racial and cultural foundations. Göttingen 1940
  • Westtocharische grammar. Heidelberg 1952
  • Handbook of the Gothic. Munich 1953, 3rd edition. 1968
  • Tocharisches elementary book Volume 1, Grammar. Heidelberg 1960
  • About the name of the salmon. In: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, philological- historical class, Göttingen 1961, pp. 83-89.
  • The language of urnordischen runic inscriptions. Heidelberg 1971
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