Biography
Wilhelm Heizmann was born in Eggenfelden,Germany on 5 September 1953. From 1974 to 1981,Heizmann studied German philology,ancient and medieval history,ethnology,Nordic philology and Germanic Antiquity at the University of Munich and the University of Vienna. He received his MA at Munich. From 1981 to 1982,Heizmann studied at the University of Oxford and the University of London. With funding from the German Academic Exchange Service,Heizmann subsequently stayed for two years as a researcher at the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen,during which he also conducted research at Reykjavík University. He held a scholarship at the Studienstiftung from 1983 to 1984. From 1984 to 1993,Heizmann was a research assistant at the Scandinavian Seminar at the University of Göttingen. He earned a PhD at the University of Munich in 1987,and completed his habilitation at Göttingen in 1994.
Since 1994,Heizmann taught at the University of Göttingen,where he was appointed an associate professor in 1999. From 2000 to 2001,Heizman was a visiting professor at the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Vienna. Since 2002,Heizmann has been Professor and Chair of the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of Munich. He was appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Brothers Grimm Society in 2002,an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen in 2004,and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2009.
Heizmann specializes in Germanic studies. He researches and teaches Germanic paganism and mythology (including Old Norse religion and mythology),Old Norse literature,runology,as well as the scientific works of the Brothers Grimm. He is Co-Editor of Germanische Altertumskunde Online .
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm.
Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range of at least one thousand years in an area covering Scandinavia, the British Isles, modern Germany, the Netherlands, and at times other parts of Europe, the beliefs and practices of Germanic paganism varied. Scholars typically assume some degree of continuity between Roman-era beliefs and those found in Norse paganism, as well as between Germanic religion and reconstructed Indo-European religion and post-conversion folklore, though the precise degree and details of this continuity are subjects of debate. Germanic religion was influenced by neighboring cultures, including that of the Celts, the Romans, and, later, by the Christian religion. Very few sources exist that were written by pagan adherents themselves; instead, most were written by outsiders and can thus present problems for reconstructing authentic Germanic beliefs and practices.
Otto Eduard Gotfried Ernst Höfler was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A student of Rudolf Much, Höfler was Professor and Chair of German Language and Old German Literature at the University of Vienna. Höfler was also a Nazi from 1922 and a member of the SS Ahnenerbe before the Second World War. Höfler was a close friend of Georges Dumézil and Stig Wikander, with whom he worked closely on developing studies on Indo-European society. He tutored a significant number of future prominent scholars at Vienna, and was the author of works on early Germanic culture. Julia Zernack refers to him as the "perhaps most famous and probably most controversial representative" of the "Vienna School" of Germanic studies founded by Much.
Germanische Altertumskunde Online, formerly called Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, is a German encyclopedia of the study of Germanic history and cultures, as well as the cultures that were in close contact with them.
Rudolf Simek is an Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar who is Professor and Chair of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at the University of Bonn. Simek specializes in Germanic studies, and is the author of several notable works on Germanic religion and mythology, Germanic peoples, Vikings, Old Norse literature, and the culture of Medieval Europe.
Rudolf Much was an Austrian philologist and historian who specialized in Germanic studies. Much was Professor and Chair of Germanic Linguistic History and Germanic Antiquity at the University of Vienna, during which he tutored generations of students and published a number of influential works, some of which have remained standard works up to the present day.
Wolfgang Krause was a German philologist and linguist. A professor at the University of Göttingen for many years, Krause specialized in comparative linguistics, and was an authority on Celtic studies, Tocharian languages, Germanic studies, Old Norse and particularly runology.
Gustav Neckel was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Friedrich Maurer was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Robert Nedoma is an Austrian philologist who is Professor at Department for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna. He specializes in Germanic studies and Old Norse studies.
Hermann Reichert is an Austrian philologist at the University of Vienna who specializes in Germanic studies.
Heinrich Beck was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A Professor of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at Saarland University and later the University of Bonn, Beck was a co-editor of the second edition of Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde and one of the world's leading experts on early Germanic culture.
Otto Gschwantler was an Austrian philologist who was head of the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Vienna. He specialized in the study of early Germanic literature.
Klaus Böldl is a German philologist who specializes in Old Norse studies. Böldl was born in Passau and studied Nordic philology, German philology and comparative literature at the universities of Munich and Lund University. Böldl received his Ph.D. in philology at Munich in 1999, where he completed his habilitation in 2005. Since 2007, Böldl has been Professor of Scandinavian Medieval Studies at the Nordic Institute of the University of Kiel.
Klaus Düwel was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A professor at the University of Göttingen, he was recognized as one of the world's leading experts on Germanic Antiquity.
Kurt Schier was a German philologist who specialised in Germanic studies.
Fritz Paul is a German philologist who specializes in Scandinavian studies.
Benjamin Sigmund Oehrl is a German archaeologist and philologist who specializes in Germanic studies.
Hans-Peter Naumann was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Heiko Uecker was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. He was Professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Bonn and a known expert on Scandinavian literature.
