Hans Ernst Pinsker

Hans Pinsker (1909-1979) was an Austrian linguist. He was Professor and Chair at the Department of English at the University of Vienna. Pinsker is perhaps best known for his introduction to English historical grammar (written in German), which appeared in multiple editions (e.g. 2nd, rev. ed. 1963. 1974 edition). He is also noted as an accomplished member of the Vienna School of English Linguistics ("Anglistik"), and he has worked on Indo-European in addition to English historical linguistics. After his death, the Hans-Pinsker-Fund to support student for research in English Historical Linguistics was established.

Publications

Pinsker, Hans. 1974. Historische Englische Grammatik: Elemente der Laut-, Formen- und Wortbildungslehre. Munich: Hueber.

Festschrift

Pinker received a festschrift for his 70th birthday and other dedications for his 65th.

Acobian, Richild, (ed.) 1979. Festgabe für Hans Pinsker zum 70. Geburtstag. Vienna: VWGOE.

Krämer, Peter. 1974. Die 'formal-semantische' Opposition - ein Grundprinzip der Wortbildung im Gotischen? (Hans Ernst Pinsker zum 65. Geburtstag) Die Sprache, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft Bd. 20, Wiesbaden 1974.

Notable students

Herbert Schendl (English historical linguistics)

Nikolaus Ritt (English historical linguistics)

Peter Krämer (German linguistics)