Background
Reichardt, Konstantin was born on April 30, 1904 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia. Son of Robert and Adelheid (Hoffmann) Reichardt.
Reichardt, Konstantin was born on April 30, 1904 in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia. Son of Robert and Adelheid (Hoffmann) Reichardt.
Student School of Swiss Reformed Church, Saint St. Petersburg, Russia, 1912-1914, Maximilians Gymnasium, Munich, Germany, 1914-1915, Prinz Heinrichs Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany, 1915-1923. Doctor of Philosophy, Berlin University, 1927. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale, 1947.
Erica Reichardt Wilkinson. Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Lecturer, Old Norse, U. Berlin, 1926-1929.
Assistant and lecturer U. Cologne (Germany), 1930.
Professor Scandinavian and Germanic philology, head Scandinavian department U. Leipzig, 1931-1937. Lecturer German and Norse philology U. Gothenburg (Sweden), 1938.
Professorial lecturer philology University of Minnesota, 1938-1939, professor German and Scandinavian languages, 1939-1945, professor linguistics and comparative philology, department chairman, 1945-1947, Chairman of Commission Russian area studies, 1946-1947. Professor Germanic philology Yale, 1947-1970, Leavenworth professor Germanic language and literature, 1970-1972, emeritus, 1972-1976, director graduate studies Germanics, 1961-1972, acting department chairman Germanic languages, 1965-1966, acting department chairman Medieval studies, 1967-1968, adviser on Scandinavian and Icelandic literature to University Library, 1948-1972, fellow Davenport College, Yale, from 1948.
Fulbright lecturer, Marburg, Germany, 1957-1958, traveling fellow Norway, 1927, 28.
Delegate Prussian Academy Sciences to investigate German manuscripts, Royal Library, Copenhagen, 1930. Delegate Rask-Orsted Foundation, 1938, International Germanists Congress, Copenhagen, 1960.
Member Icelandic Academy Science.
Married Patricia Lorraine Barker, November 3, 1944.