Bruno Schweizer

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Bruno Schweizer (born May 3, 1897 in Dießen am Ammersee ; † November 11, 1958 ) was a German linguist. He was an employee of the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe and is best known for his grammar of the Cimbrian language .

Life

Bruno Schweizer came from a family of pewter foundries from Dießen. He studied philology in Munich and Freiburg and served as a sergeant in the First World War . After the war he continued his studies at the University of Innsbruck , where he met the dialect researcher Josef Schatz . In 1924 he founded the Heimatvereinigung Ammersee and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1925 on "Dialects of the Lech-Isar-Land". In 1928 he was invited by Ferdinand Wrede to work on the Linguistic Atlas of the German Empire at the University of Marburg . In 1931 he moved from Marburg to Munich, where in 1933 he became assistant to Karl Alexander von Müller at the Institute for Research on German Ethnicity in the South and Southeast at the University of Munich . In 1935, however, he had to leave the institute, which he attributed to the influence of Fritz Valjavec . In November 1937 he became an employee of the Ahnenerbe . During this time he traveled to Iceland several times , where he learned the Icelandic language .

A study trip to Northern Italy to the language islands of the Cimbri led to the publication of the grammar of the Cimbrian language . In this context he published in the yearbook for comparative folklore in 1948 a treatise on "The Origin of the Zimbri", in which the " Longobard theory of the Cimbrian " was set up. He described the Cimbri as the last remnants of the Longobard nation and saw the Longobards as the great mediator between the spiritual shelter of antiquity, which lay on sterile ground, and the following, also internally Germanic-determined time.

He was extensively involved in local history in Dießen and on the Ammersee, including with the magazine Lech-Isar-Land from 1925, a working group of Ammersee local researchers after the Second World War and the field name book for the southwestern Ammersee area. The Dießen house book that he began was only completed by Wilhelm Neu and Juliane Wörlein.

literature

  • Bruno Schweizer:  Remnants of the Cimbrian language.  Niemeyer, Halle 1939. (German Ahnenerbe; B. 5.1).
  • Bruno Schweizer: Cimbrian overall grammar. Comparative representation of the Cimbrian dialects . Edited by James R. Dow. Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-515-09053-7 .
  • Bruno Schweizer: Cimbrian and heel-based language atlas = Atlante linguistico cimbro e mòcheno . Edited and commented by = edizione curata e commentata da Stefan Rabanus. Istituto Cimbro / Istituto Culturale Mòcheno, Luserna / Palù del Fersina (TN) 2012. ISBN 978-88-95386-02-7 .
  • Bruno Schweizer: The field names of the southwestern Ammersee region: Diessen-St. Georgen, Raisting, Rieden, Diessen forest district, Ammer, Pilsen and Wörthsee , Munich 1957.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His importance as a local researcher: Lech-Isar-Land magazine , 1993, p. 113.
personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dießen am Ammersee
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1958