Siegfried Gutenbrunner

Siegfried Gutenbrunner
Photograph of Siegfried Gutenbrunner in 1972
Born	(1906-05-26)26 May 1906 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	23 November 1984(1984-11-23) (aged 78) Freiburg, Germany
Nationality	Austrian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Academic advisors	Rudolf Much
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic philology
Institutions	University of Vienna University of Kiel Reichsuniversität Straßburg University of Freiburg
Main interests	Germanic Antiquity

Siegfried Gutenbrunner (26 May 1906 – 23 November 1984) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography

Siegfried Gutenbrunner was born in Vienna, Austria on 26 May 1906. He gained his PhD in Germanistics at the University of Vienna in 1931.

After gaining his habilitation at Vienna, Gutenbrunner served there as Privatdozent (1936–1939) and Docent (1939–1943). Since 1943, Gutenbrunner was associate professor of Germanic and Scandinavian studies at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg.

After the end of World War II, held a chair at the University of Kiel. Since 1950, Gutenbrunner served as associate professor (1950–1955) and professor (1955–1975) of Germanic and Nordic philology at the University of Freiburg. At Freiburg, Gutenbrunner founded the Seminar for Scandinavian Studies in 1963.

Gutenbrunner retired as professor emeritus in 1975, and died in Freiburg on 23 November 1984.

See also

• Otto Höfler
• Richard Wolfram
• Walter Steinhauser

Selected works

• Die Germanischen Götternamen der Antiken Inschriften, 1936
• Germanische Frühzeit in den Berichten der Antike, 1939
• Schleswig-Holsteins älteste Literatur, von der Kimbernzeit bis zur Gudrundichtung, 1949
• Historische Laut- und Formenlehre des Altisländischen, 1951
• Von Hildebrand und Hadubrand, 1976

Sources

• Elias H. Füllenbach, Gutenbrunner, Siegfried, in: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Band 1: A–G., hrsg. von Christoph König unter Mitarbeit von Birgit Wägenbaur de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4, S. 640–642.