Ernst Gamillscheg (Romanist)

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Ernst Gamillscheg (born October 28, 1887 in Neuhaus ; † March 18, 1971 in Göttingen ) was a German-Austrian Romance studies .

Live and act

Gamillscheg received his doctorate in Vienna in 1909 under Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke on The Romance elements in the German dialect of Lusern (Halle an der Saale 1912) and, after studying in Paris , completed his habilitation under Jules Gilliéron and Mario Roques in 1913 with studies on the prehistory of a Romance tense theory (Vienna 1913; Tübingen 1970). Romanian Studies was one of his research areas early on . He had already undertaken study trips to Romania in 1914 and has since dealt with Olten dialects. In the First World War he was called to serve in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was seriously wounded. After recovering, he was called to Innsbruck in 1916 , initially as an associate professor and from 1919 as a full professor of Romance philology.

In 1925 he followed a call to the University of Berlin . In 1936 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1938 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

From 1940 to 1944 Gamillscheg was President of the German Scientific Institute (DWI) in Bucharest , which he headed with his students Günter Reichenkron and Ernst-Erwin Lange-Kowal and the German studies specialist Hermann Schneider , and at the same time visiting professor at the University of Bucharest . Through this position he made a name for himself as an important representative of German Romanian studies. Branch offices of the DWI were so-called lectureships in numerous Romanian cities, which served as centers for Nazi propaganda and conducted courses and training sessions with teaching materials created centrally by the management.

In 1946, Gamillscheg was called to the University of Tübingen and retired there in 1956. His thesis, developed in a treatise in 1950, according to which Basque emerged from the amalgamation of a Ligurian with an Iberian population as a result of hypothetical resettlements in northwestern Hispania under King Leovigild in the 6th century, met with headshakes in the research community and is no longer represented today.

His son Franz Gamillscheg was a well-known German legal scholar.

Awards

In 1935 Ernst Gamillscheg was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Star of Romania . In 1939 he received the Loyalty Service Medal of Honor 2nd Level from Adolf Hitler (for 25 years of service).

Publications (selection)

  • Etymological Dictionary of the French Language , 2 vols., Heidelberg 1926–1929 (2nd, revised edition 1966–1969); 1997 ( ISBN 3-8253-0501-5 )
  • Romania Germanica , 3 vols., Berlin 1934, 1935, 1936 (Volume 1: 2nd, revised edition 1970)
  • Immigrazioni germaniche in Italia , Verlag H. Keller, Leipzig, 1937
  • About the origin of the Romanians , Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1940 (20 pages)
  • Novels and Basques (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, Volume 2). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • Diderot's Neveu de Rameau and the Goethe translation of the satire (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1953, Volume 1). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • French theory of meaning , Tübingen 1951
  • Historical French syntax , Tübingen 1957
  • Forays into the field of the theory of meaning (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1958, Volume 5).
  • Selected articles , Vol. 2, Tübingen 1962

literature

Short biographies:

  • Ernst Gamillscheg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1971 of October 18, 1971, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Klaus Heitmann: Gamillscheg, Ernst , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 2. Munich 1976, p. 5 f.

On Gamillscheg's attitude to National Socialism and his work during the Nazi era :

  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Even in war, the muses are not silent . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002. 2nd edition. ISBN 3-525-35181-X .
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Devoured by the vortex of events. German Romance Studies in the Third Reich . Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2008. 2nd edition. ISBN 978-3-465-03584-8 .

Festschriften:

  • on his 50th birthday ( Selected essays by Ernst Gamillscheg , Jena 1937)
  • for his 65th birthday ( Ernst Gamillscheg , Tübingen 1952)
  • for his 70th birthday ( Syntactica et Stilistica , edited by Günter Reichenkron, Tübingen 1957)
  • on his 80th birthday ( Verba et vocabula , edited by Helmut Stimm and Julius Wilhelm ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Daniela Olărescu: German-Romanian scientific and cultural relations in the era of National Socialism. In: Wolfgang Dahmen , Petra Himstedt-Vaid, Gerhard Ressel (eds.): Border crossing. Traditions and Identities in Southeastern Europe (= Balkanological Publications , Volume 45). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05792-9 , pp. 430-438. Here: p. 434; P. 436 m. Note 19.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Ernst Gamillscheg. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 26, 2015 .
  3. ^ Ernst Gamillscheg obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
  4. ↑ Ernst Gamillscheg: On the problem of "Romanes and Basques". In: Romanische Forschungen , Vol. 76 (1964), Issue 3/4, pp. 422-425.
personal data
SURNAME Gamillscheg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian Romance scholar and Romanologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus, today Jindřichův Hradec
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1971
Place of death Goettingen