Johann Wolfgang Ernst

Born:	09-14-1910
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Johann Wolfgang ERNST (born on September 14th, 1910 in Annaberg, Lower Autria, entiteled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Bruck an der Leithe, Lower Austria), had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Romance languages and literature Studies on December 4th, 1936 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: '"Periodizität sprachlicher Vorgänge", dargestellt an der lateinisch-romanischen Entwicklung unter Berücksichtigung des Französischen, Spanischen und (in geringerem Maße) des Italienischen ').
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on September 11th, 1943 with the racist argument, that he as a Jew was not considered dignified an academic degree of a German university ('eines akademischen Grades einer deutschen Hochschule unwürdig').
It took 12 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15th, 1955.