Helmut Glück Explained

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 and worked 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.[1]

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 Metzler Lexikon Sprache, now in its fourth edition, 700 of whose articles are also by him.

He is the speaker of the jury for the Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache, an annual award supporting the creative development of the German language.[2]

Works

Monographs

As editor

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Teenagers’ argot. The Economist. 2018-01-02.
  2. Web site: Die Jury Kulturpreis Deutsche Sprache. kulturpreis-deutsche-sprache.de. de-DE. 2018-01-02.