Jost Trier
Encyclopedia
Jost Trier was a German
Germanic
linguist
(Altgermanist).
He taught as a professor
at Münster University (1932-).
In 1968 he was awarded the Konrad-Duden-Preis.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Germanic
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
(Altgermanist).
He taught as a professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at Münster University (1932-).
In 1968 he was awarded the Konrad-Duden-Preis.
Literary works
- Der deutsche Wortschatz im Sinnbezirk des Verstandes, 1931