Werner Betz

Werner Betz
Born	(1912-09-01)1 September 1912 Frankfurt, Germany
Died	13 July 1980(1980-07-13) (aged 67) Munich, Germany
Nationality	German
Academic background
Academic advisors	Theodor Frings
Influences	Georges Dumézil
Academic work
Discipline	Philology
Sub-discipline	Germanic philology
Institutions	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Werner August Josef Betz (1 September 1912 – 13 July 1980) was a German philologist who was Chair of German and Nordic Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Biography

Werner Betz was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 1 September 1912. He gained a PhD in 1936 with a dissertation on Latin influence on Germanic. From 1937 to 1940, with a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Betz was a research assistant of Theodor Frings. He served in the Kriegsmarine during World War II. After the war, Betz became Chair of German and Nordic Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He died in Munich on 13 July 1980.

Betz was considered an expert on Germanic Antiquity. His writings on Germanic mythology were influenced by the theories of Georges Dumézil.

Selected works

• Der Einfluss des Lateinischen auf den althochdeutschen Sprachschatz. 1: Der Abrogans, 1936
• Deutsch und Lateinisch: die Lehnbildungen der althochdeutschen Benediktinerregel, 1949
• (Publisher and Contributor) Taylor Starck: Festschrift ; [... presented to Professor emeritus Taylor Starck by his friends, colleagues, and pupils on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday october fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixty-four], 1964

See also

• Otto Höfler
• Jost Trier
• Wolfgang Krause

Sources

• Christina Bürger: Betz, Werner. In: Christoph König (ed.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Vol. 1: A–G. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2003 [Reprint 2011], ISBN 978-3-11-090805-3, pp. 169–170
• Strutynski, Udo (1974). "History and Structure in Germanic Mythology". In Larson, Gerald J.; Puhvel, Jaan; Littleton, C. Scott (eds.). Myth in Indo-European Antiquity. University of California Press. pp. 29–50. ISBN 0-520-02378-1.

External links

• "Werner Betz". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
• Werner Betz in the OPAC of Regesta Imperii