Walter Baetke

Jan Alexander van Nahl (University of Iceland)

Ed. by Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 28 Mar 1884
Died 15 Feb 1978

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Historian of Religion

Resources

Walter Hugo Hermann Baetke (28 March 1884 [Sternberg] – 15 February1978 [Leipzig]), was a German medievalist whose manifold studies on the history of Germanic religions, Old Norse mythology, and saga literature had a significant impact on international Scandinavian studies. Baetke played an important role in the reestablishment of the study of Germanic religions after World War II, as well as in the scholarly and public perception of Old Norse literature in the second half of the twentieth century. His Old Icelandic-German dictionary, compiled together with his main assistant Rolf Heller but commonly called “The Baetke”, has been the standard reference in the field since the late 1960s (Baetke 1965–68 (8^th

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Citation: van Nahl, Jan Alexander. "Walter Baetke". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 November 2022 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14826, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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