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: I mean, it does say so in Christianity.
gollark: For life.
gollark: And I wouldn't trust anyone but me to be supreme eternal world dictator™.
gollark: Currently.
gollark: The state is at least *nominally* meant to respond to people's preferences and not the other way round.

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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