Karl Brugmann

Karl Brugmann.

Karl Friedrich Christian Brugman ( born March 16, 1849 in Wiesbaden , † June 29, 1919 in Leipzig ) was a German Indo-Europeanist and linguist .

Life

Karl Brugmann's grave and relatives in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Brugmann was born the son of a treasury director.

From 1867 to 1871 Brugmann studied in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig. He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1871 and passed the state examination there in 1872. His teacher was Georg Curtius . This was followed by a time in school service in Wiesbaden and at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig. In 1877 he received his habilitation in Leipzig . In 1882 he became associate professor in Leipzig and in 1884 full professor for comparative linguistics in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1887 he followed a call to Leipzig, where he taught Indo-European linguistics and worked extremely productively for 32 years.

Brugmann represented the principle of the absence of exception of the sound laws and is one of the most important young grammarians alongside August Leskien .

In 1882 he married a daughter of the Privy Councilor of Justice Friedrich Berner and had four children. Major General a. D. Gerhard Brugmann is a grandson of the scientist.

Honors

• 1882: Sponsorship award from the Bopp Foundation
• 1888: Full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
• 1893: Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1895: Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1899: Admission to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala

Major works

• Outline of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages (5 vols.).
• The syntax of the simple sentence in Indo-European (1925).
• together with Hermann Osthoff : Morphological investigations in the field of the Indo-European languages (6 vols.).
• together with Wilhelm Streitberg founder of the journal Indo-European Research .

literature

• Eveline Einhauser (Ed.): "Dear friend ..." Hermann Osthoff's letters to Karl Brugmann, 1875–1904 . WTV, Trier 1992
• Max Förster: Words of Memory of Karl Brugmann . In: Indo-European Yearbook . VI. Volume, born 1918, Berlin / Leipzig 1920, pp. VII-X.
• Ferdinand Sommer:  Brugman (n), Karl Friedrich Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 667 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Streitberg: Karl Brugmann . In: Indo-European Yearbook . Volume VII, born 1919, Berlin / Leipzig 1921, pp. 143–152 (with list of publications).
• Harald Wiese: A journey through time to the origins of our language. How Indo-European Studies explains our words . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2007, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-8325-1601-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Brugmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Brugmann in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Karl Brugmann's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1877 to summer semester 1914)
• TITUS-Galeria: picture by Karl Brugmann
• Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Karl Brugmann in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center