Tibor Kneif
Tiburtius Tibor Kneif (9 October 1932 – 26 July 2016) was a German-Hungarian lawyer and musicologist. Life. Born in Bratislava, Kneif, who after studying law received his doctorate from the Faculty of Law in Budapest in 1955, continued his studies at the Faculty of Law in Göttingen after emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956, but from 1959 he turned his attention to musicology, philosophy and Romance studies and received his doctorate again in 1963, this time with the musicological topic "Zur Entstehung der musikalischen Mediävistik" with Heinrich Husmann. With a scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  he worked at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research with Theodor W. Adorno from 1965 to 1967. In 1971 he completed his habilitation in musicology under Rudolf Stephan at Freie Universität Berlin and was appointed professor there in 1973 (1997: retired university professor). In addition to his academic profession, he also worked as a music critic, for example for the Göttingen Press between 1959 and 1963 and for the Berlin "Tagesspiegel from 1976 to 1984." Kneif died in Berlin at age 83. Writings. An extensive list of the writings of Tibor Kneif, compiled by Thomas Gerlich, can be found in  the volume "Semantische Inseln – Musikalisches Festland. Für Tibor Kneif zum 65. Geburtstag", edited by Hanns-Werner Heister, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Arne Langer, Susanne Oschmann, by Bockel Verlag 1997.