Carl August Friedrich Mahn

Carl August Friedrich Mahn (born September 9, 1802 in Zellerfeld , † January 27, 1887 in Steglitz ) was a German Romanist , Provençalist and Anglicist .

life and work

Mahn studied in Braunschweig , Göttingen and Berlin . From 1828 he was a private teacher and private scholar in Berlin . In 1857 he was a co-founder of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages. His students included Paul Heyse , Karl Bartsch and Konrad Hofmann . He taught at the Academy for Modern Philology in Berlin, which existed from 1872 to 1880 , from 1873 with the title of professor.

Fonts

• Dictionary for the Vicar of Wakefield by O. Goldsmith , for the benefit of beginners in the English language , Braunschweig 1825
• The works of the troubadours in Provencal language , 4 vols., Berlin 1846–1886, reprinted Geneva 1977
• Poems of the troubadours in Provencal language , Berlin 1856–1864, reprinted in Geneva 1977
• Monuments of the Basque Language , Berlin 1857, reprinted by Oosterhout 1967
• (Ed.) Dr. Johann Christian August Heyse's general German explanatory and explanatory foreign dictionary with description of the pronunciation and emphasis of the words . Improved and greatly enriched after earlier revisions, 12th edition, Hanover 1859
• On the origin, meaning, purpose and goals of Romance philology , Berlin 1863
• (Editor of the etymology) Noah Webster: A Dictionary of the English Language , revised and improved by A. Goodrich and N. Porter, the Etymology by Dr. KAF Mahn, of Berlin, Prussia - Springfield, Massachusetts, 1864
• The biographies of the troubadours in Provencal language , 2nd edition, Berlin 1878

literature

• Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present , Osterwieck 1891, p. 119 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Helmut Christmann : Programmatic texts of the new philology in the second half of the 19th century: Mahn (1863), Breymann (1876) , in: Journal for Phonetics, Linguistics and Communication Research 39, 1986, pp. 656–668