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Friedrich Conrad August Fick (born May 5, 1833 in Petershagen near Minden, † March 24, 1916 in Hildesheim ) was a German philologist and linguist.

Life

August Fick studied philology in Göttingen from 1852–56, mainly under Theodor Benfey . He became a member of the Corps Teutonia Göttingen. Fick worked as a teacher at the local high school from 1858 . In 1869 he was appointed assessor of the Göttingen Society of Sciences . and in 1876 was appointed associate professor of comparative languages at Göttingen University.

His main achievement is the dictionary of the Indo-European basic language (Göttingen 1868), the 2nd edition of which appeared as a comparative dictionary of the Indo-European languages (Göttingen 1870, 3rd edition 1874–76, 4 vols.). The work is also of great interest for cultural history. It is considered the first complete compilation of the vocabulary common to all Indo-European languages. This must therefore already belong to the Indo-European prehistory. Accordingly, multiple conclusions can be drawn from it about the culture of this common Indo-European epoch. In 1888 he was appointed full professor at the University of Breslau. There he was after three years (1891) for health reasons emeritus and moved to Hildesheim , where he died on March 24, 1916th

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1913 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences.

Works

The Greek personal names (Göttingen 1874)
The former language unit of the Indo-Europeans of Europe (that. 1875)
The Homeric Odyssey (Göttingen 1883)
Iliad, viewed after its creation and restored in the original language form (Göttingen. 1885. Vol. 1)

literature

Wilhelm Wissmann: Fick, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , pp. 130 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: August Fick - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about August Fick in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by August Fink in the library network
biography

Individual evidence

↑ Different place of death: Breslau . The obituaries and reports from contemporaries clearly prove Hildesheim.
↑ Kösener corps lists 1910; not listed in the Kösener corps lists in 1960.
↑ ^a ^b Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Class. Volume 3, Vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 79.

personal data
SURNAME	Fuck August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fuck, Friedrich Conrad August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Petershagen
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1916
Place of death	Hildesheim

[1] Different place of death: Breslau . The obituaries and reports from contemporaries clearly prove Hildesheim.

[2] Kösener corps lists 1910; not listed in the Kösener corps lists in 1960.

[krahnke-3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Class. Volume 3, Vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 79.