Gertrud Pätsch
Female, Deceased Person
1910 – 1994
Who was Gertrud Pätsch?
Gertrud Pätsch was a German ethnologist and philologist, who rendered service in the area of Cartvelology.
In 1937 she graduated in Munster with a degree in the Old Georgian language. After the Second World War she left the western sector of Germany for East Berlin, where she earned a habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin in Indonesian linguistics. She taught in Berlin until she moved to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1960. After her retirement she worked for two years at the Tbilisi State University in Georgia. Towards the end of her life Pätsch translated many pieces of Georgian literature, such as Shota Rustaveli`s poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin." She worked diligently for cultural exchanges between the German Democratic Republic and Georgia. She even had the Georgian alphabet engraved in the stairwell of her home in Jena, where she also had built a guest house for such visitors as Konstantine Gamsakhurdia.
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