Willy Krogmann Explained

Willy Krogmann
Birth Date:13 September 1905
Birth Place:Wismar, Germany
Death Place:Hamburg, Germany
Nationality:German

Willy Krogmann (13 September 1905 – 20 March 1967) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography

Willy Krogmann was born in Wismar, Germany on 13 September 1905. He was the son of a timber merchant. Since 1924, Krogmann studied German, philosophy and history at the universities of Leipzig and Rostock. He received his Ph.D. at Rostock in 1928.

From 1933 to 1936, Krogmann worked on the production of the Deutsches Wörterbuch. He habilitated at the University of Königsberg in 1939, and subsequently taught Frisian at the University of Hamburg. He served as a sonderführer in the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands during World War II. After the war, Krogmann took over the leadership of the Frisian Institute in Hamburg, and worked on the production of a dictionary of Heligoland Frisian. From 1952 to 1967, Krogmann lectured in Frisian philology at the University of Hamburg. He was also a specialist in Germanic linguistics in general, and on runology and Germanic Antiquity. Krogmann died in Hamburg on 20 March 1967.

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