Theodor Siebs

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Theodor Siebs (born August 26, 1862 in Bremen , † May 28, 1941 in Breslau ) was a German medievalist .

biography

Theodor Siebs studied philology at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1885 . During his studies in 1881 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity .

In 1888 he completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau . There he taught as a private lecturer , in 1890 he moved to the University of Greifswald . In 1894 he became an associate professor for German language and literature at the University of Breslau, and in 1902 a full professor . From 1903 to 1922 he headed the Academic Institute for Church Music there , and from 1929 to 1941 the department for dialect research . He retired in 1929, but continued teaching for a few years. From 1902 to 1939 he was chairman of the Silesian Folklore Society .

Siebs developed the first pronunciation dictionary for the German language, the German stage pronunciation , also known as "the Siebs" , with a commission of linguists and representatives of some German theater stages that he led . The work, first published in 1898, has long been decisive in regulating the pronunciation of German. Siebs is also considered the founder of modern hairdressing .

Works

  • 1886: The Assibilization of K and G. A contribution to the history of the Palatalism of the Indo-European languages. Tübingen.
  • 1888: On the history of the English-Frisian language (habilitation thesis). Hall a / S.
  • 1889: On the history of the Anglo-Frisian language. I. Hall a / S.
  • 1891/1892: Contributions to German mythology. Magazine fd Philol. XXIV.
  • 1893: The Saterland. A contribution to German folklore. In: Zeitschr. d. Association f. Folklore III.
  • 1894: Linguistic contributions. In: Ph. Heck: The old frieze. Judicial system. Weimar.
  • 1895: West Frisian Studies. Treatise d. Kgl. Preusz. Akad. D. Knowledge (Attachment).
  • 1896: Field names [of the Saterland]. Breslau (= German. Abhandl. XII pp. 165- * 194).
  • 1897: The Sesenheim songs by Goethe and Lenz. Preusz. Year 88.
  • 1898: Sylt comedies. With translation, explanations and dictionary. Greifswald.
  • 1898: On the labialized gutturals. Contribution z. Business d. German language and Lit. XXIII.
  • 1898: German stage debate . Berlin / Cologne / Leipzig. 15th ed.
  • 1901: Initial studies. In: Zeitschr. f. comparison. Language research. XVII (cf. XXXVIII).
  • 1901: History of the Frisian language. In: Hermann Paul (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Germanischen Philologie. I. Volume. 2 ed., Strasbourg, pp. 1152–1464.
  • 1902: History of Frisian Literature. In: Paul's floor plan d. germ. Phil. II. 2 ed.
  • 1902: The development of Germanic science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Festschr. d. Society f. German Philol. Leipzig.
  • 1907: Contributions to linguistics. In: Ph. Heck: The Frisian status in post-Franconian times. Tübingen.
  • 1907: How should we write the Silesian dialects? Mitt. D. Schles. Society f. Volksk. XVII.
  • 1909: The god Fosete and his country. Contribution z. Business d. German language and Ref . 35.
  • 1909: Heligoland and its language. Contribution z. Folklore and Linguistics. Cuxhaven u. Heligoland.
  • 1910: Older poems from Heligoland. Mitt. D. Schles. Society f. Volksk. XII.
  • 1910: Wídsíd. Festschrift for Viëtor. Marburg.
  • 1910: The so-called subjectless sentences. Magazine f. comparison. Speechf. NF 43.
  • 1911: On the history of German studies in Breslau. Magazine f. German Philol. XLIII.
  • 1911: Sylt songs. Words and sages. In: Zeitschr. d. Association f. Volksk. 21st
  • 1913: Heligoland . In: The German Fatherland. Stuttgart.
  • 1913: Silesian Folklore. In: Silesian regional studies. Edited by Frech u. Kampers, II. Leipzig.
  • 1914: Felix Dahn and Josef Scheffel. Wroclaw.
  • 1915: Hermann Allmers. His life and poetry. Berlin.
  • 1916: Sound and spelling of the Silesian dialects. In: Mitt. D. Schles. Society f. Volksk. XVII.
  • 1920: History of German literature up to the middle of the 11th century. with Wolf v. Worthless In: Grundr. d. German. Literary history I. Berlin / Leipzig.
  • 1923: From the dying Frisian of the island of Wangeroog. In: Zeitschr. f. German dialects. XVIII. Berl.
  • 1924: News on Germanic mythology. In: Mitt. D. Schles. Society f. Volksk. XXV.
  • 1925/1926: Frisian literature. In: Merker-Stammler, Reallexikon I.
  • 1926: On the history of the standard German language. Festschr. for Max Koch . Wroclaw.
  • 1931: The Frisians and their language. In: The Frisians. Ed. V. Borchling et al. Must. Leipzig.
  • 1931: The Frisians and the closest related tribes. In: Mitteil. d. Schles. Society f. Volksk. XXXI / II.
  • 1932: The Old Saxon Genesis. Rhythm. high translation. In: Zeitschr. f. systemat. Theol.
  • 1934: On the Frisian folklore of the Saterland. In: Folklore gifts. John Meier for his seventieth birthday. de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 199-222.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 489.
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 466.
personal data
SURNAME Siebs, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1941
Place of death Wroclaw