Hermann Jacobsohn
Hermann Jacobsohn (born August 30, 1879 in Lüneburg , † April 27, 1933 in Marburg ) was a German linguist and university professor of Jewish origin.
Life
After graduating from high school, studying classical philology and Indo-European studies in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Göttingen , Jacobsohn received his doctorate and qualified as a professor in Munich . From 1904 to 1911 he worked, among other things as an etymologist , at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae . In 1911 he took up a position as associate professor for comparative linguistics in Marburg .
At the First World War, Jacob's son took over as interpreters in part; his work brought him into contact with Russian prisoners of war whose languages (including Russian, Karelian, Estonian) he studied. In addition, he gave lectures on issues of Russian and Ukrainian history and politics. In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DDP .
In 1922 Jacobsohn was appointed full professor. In 1928 he gave lectures at the Academy of Sciences in Helsinki and became dean of its faculty that same year . A year later he was temporarily appointed head of the German Language Atlas .
On April 25, 1933, Jacobsohn was dismissed on the basis of the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service , which excluded Jews from civil service. Two days later he threw himself in front of a train at the Marburg Südbahnhof .
family
Hermann Jacobsohn was a son of the banker Moritz Jacobsohn and was married to Margarethe Flemming. Two of his sisters were victims of the Holocaust . His son Helmuth Jacobsohn (1906–1994) founded Egyptology at the University of Marburg.
Appreciation
The Hermann-Jacobsohn-Weg in Marburg, named in his honor, is a side street of the Weintrautstraße.
Works (selection)
- Quaestiones Plautinae metricae et grammaticae, 1904
- Old Italian inscriptions, 1910
- Russia's Development and the Ukrainian Question, 1916
- Aryans and Ugrophins, 1922
literature
- Hermann Jacobsohn in the German biography
- Hermann Jacobsohn in the Hessian biography (as of December 3, 2019)
- Jacobsohn, Hermann. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 340–343.
- Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933–1945. Entry on Hermann Jacobsohn (accessed: April 13, 2018)
- The Philipps University in National Socialism Events of the university on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war on May 8, 1995. Ed. By the convent of the Philipps University of Marburg, 1996 (therein: Harald Maier-Metz: Hermann Jacobsohn. His life . Michael Job : Hermann Jacobsohn. His work ).
- Ruth Verroen et al. (Ed.): Do you live? The story of the German-Jewish family Jacobsohn. Marburg 2000 ISBN 3-8185-0292-7 .
- Ruth Verroen: Do you live? The story of a Jewish family in Germany (1845–1953). Marburg 2015 (Jonas Verlag), ISBN 978-3-89445-506-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Jacobsohn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945 Utz Maas
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5741, p. 254 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Dietfried Krömer , Manfred Flieger (ed.): Thesaurus stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri linguae Latinae by Theodor Bögel (1876–1973) . Leipzig 1996. ISBN 3-8154-7101-X , pp. 137, 196.
- ^ "Jacobsohn, Hermann", in: Professor catalog of the Philipps University of Marburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobsohn, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1933 |
| Place of death | Marburg |