Schneider, Wolf, 1925-2022

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Name (Latin)
Schneider, Wolf, 1925-2022
Other forms of name
Schneider, Wolf, 1925-
Date of birth
1925-05-07
Date of death
2022-11-11
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 56648
Wikidata: Q78193
Library of congress: n 85100330
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Wikipedia description:

Wolf Dietrich Schneider (7 May 1925 – 11 November 2022) was a German journalist, author, and language critic. After World War II, he learned journalism on the job with Die Neue Zeitung, a newspaper published by the US military government. He later worked as a correspondent in Washington, D.C., for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, then as editor-in-chief and from 1969 manager of the publishing house of Stern. He moved to the Springer Press in 1971. From 1979 to 1995, he was the first director of a school for journalists in Hamburg, shaping generations of journalists. He wrote many publications about the German language, becoming an authority. He promoted a concise style, and opposed anglicisms and the German orthography reform.

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