Bernhard skull

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Bernhard Skull (born October 13, 1878 in Gießen , † September 9, 1926 in Hamburg ) was a German Romance , Hispanic, Italian and Catalanist.

life and work

After graduating from high school in Mainz, he studied Romance philology in Bonn, Heidelberg, Grenoble and Zurich from 1897 (with a one-year break in military service). He received his doctorate in 1902 at the University of Tübingen under Karl Voretzsch on The Ormea Dialect: Contributions to the phonology and conjugation theory of the north-western Italian language group (Tübingen 1903) and completed his habilitation in 1903 at the University of Halle (with Hermann Suchier ) in Romance philology with studies on the development of Catalan sounds (Halle a. P. 1904). In the following years he made outstanding contributions to the beginnings of Catalan studies (in collaboration with Antoni Maria Alcover, among others ). In 1910 he was appointed professor for Romance languages ​​and culture at the Hamburg Colonial Institute. There he founded the Seminar for Romance Languages ​​and Culture in 1911 and the Ibero-American Institute in 1917. Both institutions were transferred to the newly founded University of Hamburg in 1919 and Skull was appointed full professor for Romance philology. Skull published the Bulletin de dialectologie romane from 1909 to 1915 and founded Spain in 1919 . Journal for Foreign Studies, organ of the Ibero-American Society v ., as well as Iberica in 1924 . Magazine for Spanish and Portuguese international customers . He died at the age of 47.

Other works

  • Dialect from Mallorca , Halle as 1905
  • Manual de fonètica catalana , Köthen 1908

literature

  • Carme Eberenz-Greoles: Bernhard Skull i els Països Catalans, in: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 3, 1990, pp. 137–166

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personal data
SURNAME Skull, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1926
Place of death Hamburg