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Helmut Glück

b. 1949

German philologist and linguist

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Born 1949. Helmut Glück is a German philologist, linguist and university teacher.

Helmut Glück (born 23 July 1949, Stuttgart) is a German linguist.

Life Helmut Glück studied German studies, Scandinavian studies, and Slavic studies in Tübingen and Bochum, working at the universities of Osnabrück, Hannover, Oldenburg, Siegen, and Cairo. From 1991 to 2015, he was professor of German Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Bamberg.

Glück's studies are principally concerned with the German language as a foreign language, its history, and its politics (e.g. discussion of German linguistic science). He edits the , now in its sixth edition, 700 of whose articles are also by him.

He was the speaker of the jury for the , an annual award supporting the creative development of the German language.

Works Monographs Die Fremdsprache Deutsch im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, der Klassik und der Romantik. Grundzüge der deutschen Sprachgeschichte in Europa. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013. with Yvonne Pörzgen: Deutschlernen in Russland und in den baltischen Ländern vom 17. Jahrhundert bis 1941. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009. with Ineta Polanska: Johann Ernst Glück (1654–1705): Pastor, Philologe, Volksaufklärer im Baltikum und in Russland. (= Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Bd. 1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005. Deutsch als Fremdsprache in Europa vom Mittelalter bis zur Barockzeit. de Gruyter, Berlin 2002. Schrift und Schriftlichkeit. Eine sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Studie. Metzler, Stuttgart 1987. (Zugleich: Habilitations-Schrift. Universität Hannover, 1984) with Wolfgang Werner Sauer: Gegenwartsdeutsch. (= Sammlung Metzler 252). Metzler, Stuttgart u. a. 1990. (2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. ebenda 1997, ).

As editor Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Bd. 1–lfd., 2005–lfd.. Die Geschichte des Deutschen als Fremdsprache. Bd. 1–lfd., 2002–lfd.. Metzler-Lexikon Sprache. Metzler, Stuttgart u. a. 1993, (4., aktualisierte und überarbeitete Auflage. ebenda 2010, ; 5. Aufl. mit Michael Rödel als Mitherausgeber, 2016, ).

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University of Tübingen, Ruhr University Bochum

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German philologist and linguist

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Helmut Glück was born on 23 July 1949 in Stuttgart.

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Helmut Glück is a philologist, linguist and university teacher.

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Helmut Glück is German.

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· Wikipedia: Helmut Glück

· Wikidata: Q1603575

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