Hildegard Striedter-Temps’ German Loanwords in Slovenian: A Scientific-Historical Study Fifty Years On

Abstract

This article deals with the biography of the German Slavist Hildegard Striedter-Temps (1931–1972) and the creation and reception of her volume Deutsche Lehnwörter im Slovenischen (German Loanwords in Slovenian), published in 1963. This work, together with her dissertation Deutsche Lehnwörter im Serbokroatischen (German Loanwords in Serbo-Croatian), printed in 1958, is still one of the standard works on Slavic-German language contact.

Keywords

• biography
• slovenian
• german
• language contact
• history of slavic studies