Kurt Schier
- August 19, 2023
- 94 years
About Kurt Schier
Kurt Schier, 94, German philologist.
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|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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