Carl Marstrander

Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander (born November 26, 1883 in Kristiansand , Norway , † December 23, 1965 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian Celtologist and Indo-Europeanist , Germanic Medievalist , linguist and rune researcher . He was professor of Celtology at Kristiania University in Oslo.

Marstrander came from a middle-class background, his father Frederik was a school principal, his mother was Christiane Henriette (née Brodtkorb Sverdrup). He graduated from high school in his hometown and hometown in 1902 and then switched to a non-commissioned officer school of the Norwegian armed forces until 1903.

From 1903 to 1907 he studied Classical Philology , Indo-European Studies and Celtic Language in Oslo , among others with Sophus Bugge and Alf Torp . As part of his Celtic studies, a study visit to Great Blasket, the main island of the Blasket Islands , off the south coast of Ireland took him in 1907 . There he worked with the fisherman and chronicler Tomás Ó Criomhthain to take stock of the Irish language. In 1908 he received a fellowship in comparative linguistics and from 1909 to 1913 he was appointed to a professorship in Celtic and comparative linguistics at the School of Irish Learning in Dublin . From 1913 he held a chair for Celtic philology in Oslo, which he set up personally until his retirement in 1953. During this time Marstrander had another study visit to the French Brittany from 1919 to 1922 .

Marstrander's areas of research and teaching were, in addition to Indo-European studies and Celtology (Old Irish, Celtic-Italic and Celtic-Nordic language contacts), the Germanic languages, in particular Gothic , Old High German and Old Saxon philology and runology. Academic students of Marstrander are: Hjalmar Borgstram , Ottar Grønvik , Gerd Høst , Magne Oftedal .

Works

Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer. By some of his friends and pupils on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Celtic philology in the Univ. of Berlin (ed.) with Osborn Joseph Bergin (Halle / S., Niemeyer, 1912)
Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Ireland (Kristiania, Skrifter utgitt av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania Hist.-Filo. Kl. 5, 1915)
Caractere indo-europeen de la langue hittite (Kristiania, Skrifter utgitt av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-Filos. Kl. 2, 1918)
De nordiske runners i eldre alfabet. Scripture and sprik i folkevandringstiden. I. Danske og svenske innskrifter (1952, special print from magazine: Viking 16 (1953), pp. 1–277)

literature

Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 1159.

Individual evidence

↑ Tomás O'Crohan; translated by Robin Flower: The Islandman (Chapter 23: I begin to take an Interest in Irish) . 4th edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-281233-9 , pp. 223-230 .

personal data
SURNAME	Marstrander, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marstrander, Carl Johan Sverdrup (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian Celtologist and Indo-Europeanist, Germanist Medievalist, linguist and rune researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kristiansand , Norway
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1965
Place of death	Oslo

[1] Tomás O'Crohan; translated by Robin Flower: The Islandman (Chapter 23: I begin to take an Interest in Irish) . 4th edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-281233-9 , pp. 223-230 .