Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Gustav Gottlieb Delbrück (born July 26, 1842 in Putbus on Rügen , † January 3, 1922 in Jena ) was a German linguist .
life and work
Berthold Gustav Gottlieb was the son of the lawyer and later Stralsund district judge Ernst Friedrich Felix Delbrück (* March 15, 1811 - October 20, 1852 in Stralsund) and his wife Auguste Henriette Wilhelmine Böhmer (* March 8, 1815 - October 5, 1872 ). Thus he was a great-nephew of the politician Rudolph von Delbrück from the well-known Delbrück family . After attending grammar school in Stralsund and the school of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) , he began to study comparative philology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1859 . He continued these studies at the University of Berlin , where he devoted himself particularly to the Sanskrit language . He received his doctorate here in 1861 at the age of only 19. After his habilitation in 1866 on syntax in Rigveda , he settled back in Halle and was a private lecturer in comparative linguistics at the university there.
In 1870 Delbrück was appointed to the University of Jena , where he was initially an associate professor, and since 1873 a full professor of comparative linguistics and Sanskrit, which he himself actively mastered. Between 1878 and 1908 Delbrück was rector of the Alma Mater for a total of five semesters . With his works Delbrück established the comparative syntax of the Indo-European language family . In 1871 he received the Bopp Foundation's sponsorship award . In 1885 he became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . On August 1, 1908, he became an honorary citizen of Jena : “Outstanding scholar and researcher, who at the same time successfully advocated all major national issues.” In 1890 he was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1912 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
From Easter 1864 to Easter 1866 Delbrück was a teacher at the Marienwerder grammar school . On July 31, 1865, he married in Marienwerder Constanze Kämtz (* June 27, 1845; † 1935), a daughter of the late Imperial Russian State Councilor Ludwig Friedrich Kämtz and his wife Emilie Hüne. There are children from the marriage. The daughters Helene Delbrück (* May 14, 1866), Maria Delbrück (* June 4, 1868) and the son Richard Delbrueck , who became professor of archeology in Jena, are known.
Works (selection)
- The ancient Indian verb . Hall 1874 ( digitized ).
- The latest in language research. Reflections on Georg Curtius' script to criticize the latest linguistic research. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1885. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
- Comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages . 3 volumes. Trübner, Strasbourg 1893–1900.
- Basic questions of language research . Strasbourg 1901.
- Introduction to the study of the Indo-European languages . 6th edition. Breitkopf and Haertel, Leipzig 1919. Reprint Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-487-05976-2 .
literature
- Eduard Hermann: Berthold Delbrück. A scholarly life from Germany's great times . Frommann, Jena 1923.
- Walther Wüst: Delbrück, Berthold Gustav Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 574 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Martin Meier: Berthold Delbrück. Father of comparative historical syntax . In: Rugia. Rügen yearbook . 2003, pp. 32-37.
- Emilio Crespo, José Luis García Ramón (eds.): Berthold Delbrück y la sintaxis indoeuropea hoy. Actas del Coloquio de la Indo-European Society Madrid, 21-24 de septiembre de 1994. Ediciones de la UAM, Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Madrid, Wiesbaden 1997.
Web links
- Literature by and about Berthold Delbrück in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Berthold Delbrück in the German Digital Library
- Overview at Indologica.de
- Website of the University of Halle ( Memento from August 4, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Berthold Delbrück at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 24, 2017.
- ↑ 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, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 66.
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SURNAME | Delbrück, Berthold |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delbrück, Berthold Gustav Gottlieb (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1842 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Putbus on Rügen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1922 |
Place of death | Jena |