Werner Betz

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.

Werner Betz
Born(1912-09-01)1 September 1912
Frankfurt, Germany
Died13 July 1980(1980-07-13) (aged 67)
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
Academic background
Academic advisorsTheodor Frings
InfluencesGeorges Dumézil
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Biography

Werner Betz was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 1 September 1912. He gained a PhD in 1936 with a dissertion 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.[1]

See also

References
  1. Strutynski 1974, p. 29.

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.
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