Werner August Josef Betz (1 September 1912 – 13 July 1980) was a German philologist who was Chair of German and Nordic Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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| Born | 1 September 1912 Frankfurt, Germany |
| Died | 13 July 1980 (aged 67) Munich, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
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| Academic advisors | Theodor Frings |
| Influences | Georges Dumézil |
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Biography
editWerner Betz was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 1 September 1912. He gained a PhD in 1936 with a dissertation on Latin influence on Germanic. From 1937 to 1940, with a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Betz was a research assistant of Theodor Frings. He served in the Kriegsmarine during World War II. After the war, Betz became Chair of German and Nordic Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He died in Munich on 13 July 1980.
Betz was considered an expert on Germanic Antiquity. His writings on Germanic mythology were influenced by the theories of Georges Dumézil.[1]
Selected works
edit- Der Einfluss des Lateinischen auf den althochdeutschen Sprachschatz. 1: Der Abrogans, 1936
- Deutsch und Lateinisch: die Lehnbildungen der althochdeutschen Benediktinerregel, 1949
- (Publisher and Contributor) Taylor Starck: Festschrift ; [... presented to Professor emeritus Taylor Starck by his friends, colleagues, and pupils on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday october fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixty-four], 1964
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Strutynski 1974, p. 29.
Sources
edit- Christina Bürger: Betz, Werner. In: Christoph König (ed.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Vol. 1: A–G. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2003 [Reprint 2011], ISBN 978-3-11-090805-3, pp. 169–170
- Strutynski, Udo (1974). "History and Structure in Germanic Mythology". In Larson, Gerald J.; Puhvel, Jaan; Littleton, C. Scott (eds.). Myth in Indo-European Antiquity. University of California Press. pp. 29–50. ISBN 0-520-02378-1.
External links
edit- "Werner Betz". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- Werner Betz in the OPAC of Regesta Imperii
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