Edith Marold

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

Edith Marold
Born	(1942-07-02) 2 July 1942 (age 83) Salzburg, Reichsgau Salzburg, Germany
Nationality	Austrian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Academic advisors	Otto Höfler
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic studies
Sub-discipline	Old Norse studies
Institutions	Saarland University University of Kiel
Main interests	Germanic Antiquity

Biography

Edith Marold was born in Salzburg, Germany on 2 July 1942. She received her Ph.D. in Germanic studies at the University of Vienna in 1967 with a thesis on blacksmiths in Germanic Antiquity. Marold subsequently worked at the Saarland University, where she habilitated 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. She retired from Kiel in 2007, but has continued to teach and research.

See also

• Rudolf Simek
• Klaus Düwel

Sources

• Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender, 4 Teilbände. De Gruyter: Berlin (23. Ausgabe) 2011. ISBN 978-3-598-23630-3