Kurt Schier | |
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| Born | 27 February 1929 Ober-Maxdorf, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 19 August 2023 (aged 94) Deisenhofen, Bavaria, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich von der Leyen |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Germanic studies |
| Sub-discipline | Old Norse studies |
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| Notable students | Wilhelm Heizmann |
| Main interests | |
Kurt Schier (27 February 1929 – 19 August 2023) was a German philologist who specialised in Germanic studies.
Kurt Schier was born in the village of Ober-Maxdorf, near modern-day Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic. From 1949, Schier studied German and Nordic languages and literature, English studies, ethnology, and history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, receiving his Ph.D. in 1955 under the supervision of Friedrich von der Leyen. He habilitated in Nordic philology and Germanic Antiquity at Munich in 1971 with a thesis on Norse mythology. From 1975 until his retirement in 1995, Schier was Chair of Nordic Philology and Head of the Department for Germanic Antiquity at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Schier died on 19 August 2023, at the age of 94.[1]
