Moser, Hugo

Hugo was born in Esslingen in the family of a postal clerk in 1909 . Father - Leonard Emmert - died before the birth of the future philologist. Mother - Louise Moser - worked as a cook. Hugo attended a gymnasium in Esslingen, studied philosophy , German studies , romance and Anglistics in Tübingen . After a trip abroad, he received a Ph.D. In 1932 at the Sorbonne Hugo was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy . Subsequently, he worked in Stuttgart as a teacher in the gymnasium and the Higher School of Commerce.

During World War II, Moser was called up for service and was even captured. He was not rehabilitated until 1947 in Tübingen with the support of Hermann Schneider . In the same year he began to teach at the University of Stuttgart, in 1954 he received the title of professor at the University of Nimwegen . Since 1956 he has been working at the University of Saarbrücken , since 1959 - in Bonn . At the University of Bonn in 1963 - 1964 he served as rector .

Contribution to the Development of German Germanism

From 1962 to 1964 he was the head of the German Union of Germanists . In 1986, Moser and his wife Hildegard founded the Hugo Moser Foundation, which supports young Germanists. From the fund every two years, research awards in the field of German studies are allocated. Moser for a long time led the German Language Institute in Mannheim , which was founded with his participation. He has co-authored numerous Germanic journals, among which the Germanistik, Wirkendes Wort , Leo Weisgerber and Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie . He was also the editor of Helmut Tervooren 's Des Minnesangs Frühling.

For his activities in 1964, Moser was awarded , in 1975 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Federal Republic of Germany , in 1986 - the Order of the Land of Baden-Württemberg . He was an Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Innsbruck , Lund and Jyväskylä and a corresponding member of the Academies of Sciences in Lund and Ghent .

Proceedings

Hugo Moser focused on almost all Germanic issues, but the most important issues in the scholar's work were sociolinguistics and the history of literature (mainly medieval). Among his works, it is worth highlighting:

• Schwäbische Mundart und Sitte in Sathmar, Reinhardt, München 1937
• Volkslieder der Sathmarer Schwaben mit ihren Weisen, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1943
• Deutsche Sprachgeschichte: Mit einer Einführung in die Fragen der Sprachbetrachtung, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1950, 6. überarbeitete Auflage 1969
• Uhlands Schwäbische Sagenkunde und die germanistischvolkskundliche Forschung der Romantik, Mohr, Tübingen 1950
• Vollschwäbisch, Stadtschwäbisch und Niederalemannisch im seither würrtembergischen Oberschwaben, Moritz Schauenburg Verlag, 1954
• Mittlere Sprachschichten als Quellen der deutschen Hochsprache: Eine historisch-soziologische Betrachtung, Dekker & van de Vegt, Nijmegen, Utrecht 1955
• Sprachliche Folgen der politischen Teilung Deutschlands, Schwann, Düsseldorf 1962
• Zum Formenausgleich in der heutigen deutschen Hochsprache, Mouton & Co., 1964
• Karl Simrock: Universitätslehrer und Poet, Germanist und Erneuerer von "Volkspoesie" und älterer "Nationalliteratur"; ein Stück Literatur-, Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, E. Schmidt, Berlin 1976
• Studien zu Raum- und Sozialformen der deutschen Sprache in Geschichte und Gegenwart, E. Schmidt, Berlin 1979

• Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus. Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie. - München: KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 1996. - T. 7. - S. 225. - ISBN 3-598-23163-6 .
• Johannes Erben. Moser, Hugo // Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). - Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1997 .-- T. 18. - S. 194.

• Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek: Moser, Hugo (German) . Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Date of treatment September 28, 2012. Archived December 12, 2012.
• DER SPIEGEL 14/1989: Hugo Moser (German) . Spiegel. Date of treatment September 28, 2012. Archived December 12, 2012.