Hans Hartmann

Hans Hartmann was born near Wilhelmshaven in 1909.

He began studying Classical Philology, Indology, Indo-European Studies and Classical Archaeology in Marburg in 1928. Two years later he moved to Berlin and altered the focus of his studies to Slavian, Indo-European, Iranic and Philosophy. He received his doctorate on submitting a thesis entitled Studien über die Betonung der Adjektiva im Russischen which became known as “Hartmann’s Law”.

He received a scholarship from the German government and worked for the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin until he was offered a job at the Irish Folklore Commission. His dissertation Über Krankheit, Tod und Jenseitsvorstellungen in Irland. I. Krankheit und Fairy-Entrückung earned him his professorship in 1941.
In 1948 he became Professor of Comparative Linguistics in Göttingen. He wrote two papers based on his studies in Ireland: Der Totenkult in Irland (1952) and Das Passiv (1954) after accepting a post as professor in Hamburg. He retired in 1974.

From 1970 he started editing and contributing to the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie and was editor from1972 to1979, cooperating with Heinrich Wagner and Karl Horst Schmidt.

Hans Hartmann died in 2000.

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