Jost Trier

Jost Trier (15 December 1894 in Schlitz, Hesse – 15 September 1970 in Bad Salzuflen) was a German Germanic linguist and Medievalist.

Since 1932, Jost Trier taught as a professor at Münster University where he developed the lexical field theory. From 1933, Trier was a member of the Nazi party (NSDAP).[1] He viewed German philology in the terms of Nazi ideology ("Volkskörper", "Volksgemeinschaft").[2] This, however, proved no obstacle to a post-war career in Western Germany. In 1968 Trier was awarded the prestigious Konrad-Duden-Preis.

Literary works
  • Der deutsche Wortschatz im Sinnbezirk des Verstandes, 1931
gollark: Hmm, I wonder if I can horribly abuse z3 for collatz like I abused it for mazes.
gollark: But for applications where you know n < 2^64 you can just hardcode it yourself if you care.
gollark: Why would they special-case collatzen?
gollark: Hahahahahahahano.
gollark: Excellent, GTech™ apio{REDACTED} successful.

References
  1. Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 620.
  2. Jost Trier, Warum studieren wir die Geschichte unserer Muttersprache? In: Die Welt als Geschichte IV (1938), pp. 347−357
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