Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia

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Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (born October 4, 1878 in Rome , † October 25, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a phonetician and professor at the University of Hamburg .

After graduating from high school in Rome in 1896, he studied philology , especially Arabic, at the University of Rome in 1897/98 . From 1898 he worked as a language teacher in Kassel. From 1900 he studied in Marburg, Göttingen and Berlin.

In 1902 the physiologist Paul Schultz aroused his interest in phonetics with the lecture "Physiology of Voice and Language". In 1904 he received his doctorate under Jean-Pierre Rousselot in Paris. In 1910 Carl Meinhof brought him to the Hamburg Colonial Institute to support experimental phonetics . In 1913 he organized the 1st International Congress in Hamburg.

The following year he acquired German citizenship. During the First World War he worked in a Hamburg ward for war wounded in the field of pathological phonetics. In 1917 he received the title of professor. After founding the University of Hamburg, he qualified as a professor in 1920 for the subject of phonetics and in 1922 became a regular associate. Appointed professor and director of the phonetic laboratory. In 1934 he founded a boarding school for children with speech disorders there. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

In 1947 he retired and in 1960 received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Panconcelli-Calzia saw phonetics as a pure natural science without any reference to linguistic phonology . It was only his student of Otto von Essen who brought both points of view together.

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SURNAME Panconcelli-Calzia, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-German phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1966
Place of death Hamburg