Edith Marold (born 2 July 1942) is an Austrian philologist who specializes in Germanic studies.

Biography

Edith Marold was born in

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

, Austria on 2 July 1942. He received her Ph.D. in Germanic studies at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich h ...

in 1967 with a thesis on blacksmiths in

Germanic Antiquity Early Germanic culture refers to the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European elements, the Germanic culture started to exist in the Jastorf culture that de ...

. Marold subsequently worked at the

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in si ...

, where she

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...

in Germanic and Nordic philology in 1977. She subsequently served as Head of the Old Germanic Department of the Institute for Germanic Studies of the Saarland University. Since 1989, Marold was Professor of Old Germanic and Nordic Philology at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: link=no, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, G ...

. She retired from Kiel in 2007, but has continued to teach and research.

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* ''Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender'', 4 Teilbände. De Gruyter: Berlin (23. Ausgabe) 2011. 1942 births Austrian non-fiction writers Austrian philologists Germanic studies scholars Living people Old Norse studies scholars People from Salzburg University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of Saarland University Writers on Germanic paganism {{Philologist-stub

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