Adolf Socin

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Adolf Socin

Adolf Socin (born January 27, 1859 in Wohlenschwil , † February 5, 1904 in Basel ; full name Franz Adolf Socin , also: Adolphe ) was a Swiss Germanist . From 1894 until his death he was associate professor for German philology at the University of Basel . The focus of his work was German language history , dialectology and shorthand .

Life

As the only child of the parents Jakob Hieronymus Socin and Wilhelmine Socin, née Molzheim, Adolf Socin spent the first years of his life in Wohlenschwil in the canton of Aargau . In 1866 the family moved to Basel, where he attended high school.

From 1877 he studied classical philology , history and German at the Academy of Neuchâtel and the Universities of Basel and Strasbourg . Under the influence of his teachers Moritz Heyne and Franz Misteli , he increasingly focused on German studies. In 1882 he received his doctorate. Following his doctorate, he worked as a stenographer in Strasbourg for several years alongside his academic activities. He was a co-founder of a simplified method of shorthand, the so-called Schrey-Johnen-Socin system .

In 1887 he received his habilitation. From 1894 he taught and researched as a professor at the University of Basel.

In 1894 he married Marie Augustine Geisen, with whom he had three children.

Adolf Socin struggled with health problems since childhood. He had a disability of his right foot and suffered from asthma . About a year before his death, he also contracted whooping cough , which resulted in severe attacks of suffocation. Two cures in Montreux and Baden AG were unsuccessful. Socin died on February 5, 1904 at the age of 45.

Fonts (selection)

• Written language and dialects in German based on evidence from old and modern times. Henninger, Heilbronn 1888.
• Basel dialect and poet. In: New Year's Gazette of the Society for the Promotion of the Good and the Charitable. No. 7, (Basel) 1895.
• Middle High German name book based on Upper Rhine sources from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1903; Reprint Darmstadt 1966.

literature

• Marcel Müller: Socin, Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• In memory of Prof. Dr. Adolf Socin, born January 27, 1859, died January 5, 1904. Personal details and funeral speech by Paul Christ, words of farewell to John Meier, words of remembrance from Ms. Schneeberger. Basel: Birkhäuser 1904. 21 pages.
• Stephan Elspass, Rahel Strohmeier: Socin, Franz Adolf. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1753-1754.