Albert Debrunner
Albert Debrunner (born February 8, 1884 in Basel , † February 2, 1958 in Bern ) was a Swiss Indo-Europeanist , Graecist and linguist .
Life
Albert Debrunner studied in Basel with Ferdinand Sommer and Alfred Körte and in Göttingen with Friedrich Leo and Jacob Wackernagel . The doctorate took place in 1907. In the same year he passed the secondary school diploma. This was followed by a job as a school teacher in Schiers , Basel and Zurich . During this time he began to revise the "Grammar of New Testament Greek" by Friedrich Blass .
His habilitation took place in 1917. He then taught as a private lecturer in comparative linguistics in Zurich and in 1918 became an associate professor at the University of Greifswald . In 1920 he became a full professor in Bern. In 1925 he taught as a lecturer in Jena .
In 1935 Debrunner returned to Bern in a "spectacular" professorship swap with Walter Porzig, who had been dismissed for Nazi activities , and there became professor of Indo-European linguistics and classical philology . After Eduard Schwyzer's death in 1943, he took care of the completion of his "Greek grammar" as part of the handbook of classical studies .
From 1940 to 1949, in addition to teaching in Bern, he also taught linguistics at the University of Basel. He retired in 1954. From 1948 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
With over 600 published titles, Debrunner is considered one of the most productive Indo-Europeanists of the 20th century, with his work on Hellenistic Greek in particular still serving as standard reference works. In addition, he advocated the employment of linguists with artificial languages (see also International Auxiliary Language Association ).
literature
- The Language of the Hittites - Inaugural Academic Lecture, held in Bern on January 29, 1921 Archive.org
- Kollektivgesellschaft (1992): Schweizer Lexikon 91 in six volumes. Volume 2: Chap - Gem. Horw / Luzern: Verlag Schweizer Lexikon. P. 144.
- (1954): History of language and meaning of words: Festschrift Albert Debrunner. Dedicated by students, friends and colleagues . Bern: Francke (without exact authorizations; with list of publications).
Web links
- Literature by and about Albert Debrunner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Wachter: Albert Debrunner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Autobiography by Albert Debrunner
- Biographical contribution to the database of persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945 (accessed: April 13, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Lerchenmueller: The Reich University of Strasbourg: SD science policy and academic careers before and after 1945. In: Karen Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk: Universities and colleges in National Socialism and in the early post-war period. Stuttgart 2004, p. 73, note 82. See also: Joachim Lerchenmueller, Gerd Simon : In the run-up to the mass murder. German studies and minor subjects in World War II. An overview. Tübingen, 3rd edition 1997, p. 114 f.
- ^ Albert Debrunner: Foreword. In: Eduard Schwyzer: Greek grammar. Volume 2: Syntax and Syntactic Stylistics. CH Beck, Munich 1950, pp. V – VII.
- ^ Member entry by Albert Debrunner (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 23, 2017.
Greek Studies : Karl Jahn (1834–1854) | Otto Ribbeck (1856–1861) | Hermann Usener (1861–1863) | Johann Melchior Knaus (1863–1878) | Hermann Hagen (1878–1898) | Karl Praechter (1897–1907) | Otto Schulthess (1907–1932) | Édouard Tièche (1932–1943) | Willy Theiler (1944–1968) | Thomas Gelzer (1970–1991) | Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (1992–2001) | Arnd Kerkhecker (since 2003)
Latin Studies I: Georg Rettig (1834–1878) | Hermann Hitzig (1878–1886) | Friedrich Haag (1887–1906) | Wilhelm Havers (1915–1920) | Albert Debrunner (1920–1925) | Oskar von Allmen (1931–1932) | Walter Wili (1933–1966) | Max Imhof (1970–1992)
Latin Studies II: Olof Gigon (1948–1982) | Christoph Schäublin (1982–2002) | Martin Korenjak (2003–2009) | Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich (since 2009)
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Debrunner, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Indo-Europeanist, Graecist and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1958 |
| Place of death | Bern |