Gerta Hüttl-Folter

Gerta Hüttl-Folter (8 May 1923 – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian philologist. After obtaining her doctorate from the University of Paris, she moved to the United States and became a full professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, before becoming the first head of the University of Vienna Department of Russian Studies. A 1963 Guggenheim Fellow, she focused on 18th-century Russian philology, with her work including such books as Foreign Words in Russian and Die Trat/Torot-Lexeme in den Altrussischen Chroniken (1983). Biography Early life and education Hüttl was born on 8 May 1923 in Vienna. She graduated from a Realgymnasium with honours. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for studies of the historical development of secondary vocabularies in the Russian, Polish, and Serbocroatian languages", allowing her to head to the Soviet Union for research.

Hüttl-Folter died in Vienna on 18 January 2000.

Works Die Etymologie der russischen Tiernamen. Diss. Wien (1946) Die Trat/Torot-Lexeme in den Altrussischen Chroniken: Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte der Russischen Literatursprache (1983) Syntaktische Studien zur neueren russischen Literatursprache (1996)