Eduard Hermann (Linguist)

Eduard Hermann (born December 19, 1869 in Coburg , † February 14, 1950 in Göttingen ) was a German linguist. From 1917 to 1937 he was a professor at the University of Göttingen .

After studying in Leipzig , Freiburg and Jena a . a. under Berthold Delbrück , with whom he received his doctorate in 1893, Hermann worked at various high schools in Coburg and Bergedorf . In 1913 he received the extraordinary professorship for Indo-European Studies at the University of Kiel , and in the following year he moved to Frankfurt am Main as full professor . In 1917 he was appointed to Göttingen as the successor to Jacob Wackernagel . His focus was on the Lithuanian language and other Baltic languages he had learned while traveling, on Homer , Greek and other Indo-European languages . In addition, he dealt with child language acquisition . Hermann started out as a supporter of the historically oriented young grammarians and increasingly turned into a general linguist . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

Fonts (selection)

Linguistic commentary on selected pieces from Homer (= Indo-European Library. Department 1: Collection of Indo-European textbooks and handbooks. Series 2: Dictionaries. Vol. 1). Winter, Heidelberg 1914.
Sound law and analogy (= treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-historical class. New series, vol. 23, no. 3). Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1931.
What a linguist has to say about the so-called language of animals (= news from the Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-historical class. Section 3: General Linguistics, Eastern Cultures. New Series, Vol. 2, No. 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1938.
What does Indo-European linguistics have to offer National Socialism? In: Göttingische Scholars Ads . Vol. 199 (1937), N. 2-3, pp. 49-59.
Origin of our proverbs (= meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical department, year 1943, no.3). Beck, Munich 1943.

Karl Arndt et al. (Ed.): Göttingen scholars: The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in portraits and honors, 1751-2001. Wallstein, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-485-4 , Vol. 1, p. 366.
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. Series 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 .
Wolfgang Krause : Hermann, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 654 ( digitized version ).