Andri Augustin

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Andri Augustin , also Andri Gustin , (born September 10, 1876 in Sent , Canton of Graubünden , † February 28, 1939 ) was a Swiss Romance philologist from the Canton of Graubünden.

Augustin attended the canton school in Chur and then studied Romance studies in Pisa, Heidelberg, Berlin and a few semesters in Zurich with Heinrich Morf and Ernest Bovet . His dissertation is devoted to the syntax of Lower Engadine , on which he also researched together with Jakob Jud . He relied more on the spoken than the written language. He campaigned for the preservation of the Romansh language. In 1903 Augustin married his childhood friend Mengia Stalvies; he had two children with her. Mengia died in 1924.

Augustin was a long-time employee of the Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun, for which he carried out field surveys, which led him to all parts of the canton of Graubünden. He also undertook dialect expeditions to Ticino and Liguria.

From 1937 on, Augustin was heavily involved in language- preserving and language planning activities in the Sutselva . There he gave presentations and discussions, and organized Romansh courses. He did not have the creation of a new, Sutselvian standard in mind , but the use of Sursilvan - this in contrast to Giuseppe Gangale , who a few years after Augustine worked towards the creation of his own, Sutselvian standard.

A foundation established by Augustin - the Fundaziun Prof. Dr. Andri Augustin still exists today; it promotes measures to preserve Romansh.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=ann-001:1939:53::179
  2. ↑ http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=ann-001:1975:88::120
  3. ↑ http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=ann-001:1975:88::120
  4. ↑ http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=ann-001:1939:53::182
  5. ^ Uriel Weinreich, Languages ​​in Contact: French, German and Romansch in Twentieth-century. Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 270f.
  6. ↑ http://www.moneyhouse.ch/u/fundaziun_prof_dr_andri_augustin_sent_CH-350.7.000.121-9.htm
personal data
SURNAME Augustin, Andri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gustin, Andri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romanist from the Canton of Graubünden
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Sent , Canton of Graubünden
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1939