About Kurt Schier
Lived 1929 – 2023 (aged 94). Kurt Schier was a German university teacher, philologist, germanist, medievalist, religious studies scholar and scandinavian studies scholar.
Kurt Schier (27 February 1929 – 19 August 2023) was a German philologist who specialised in Germanic studies.
Biography Kurt Schier was born in the village of Ober-Maxdorf, near modern-day Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic. From 1949, Schier studied German and Nordic languages and literature, English studies, ethnology, and history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), receiving his Ph.D. in 1955 under the supervision of Friedrich von der Leyen. He habilitated in Nordic philology and Germanic Antiquity at LMU in 1971 with a thesis on Norse mythology. From 1975 until his retirement in 1995, Schier was Chair of Nordic Philology and Head of the Department for Germanic Antiquity at LMU.
Schier died on 19 August 2023, at the age of 94.
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Who was Kurt Schier?
German university teacher (1929–2023)
When was Kurt Schier born?
Kurt Schier was born on 27 February 1929 in Horní Maxov.
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Kurt Schier died on 19 August 2023 in Deisenhofen.
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Kurt Schier was a university teacher, philologist, germanist, medievalist, religious studies scholar and scandinavian studies scholar.
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Kurt Schier was German.
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