Ernst Lewy

Ernst Lewy (born September 19, 1881 in Breslau , † September 25, 1966 in Dublin ) was a German-Irish linguist of Jewish origin.

Life

After graduating from high school in Breslau in 1899, Ernst Lewy studied literature in Breslau, Munich and Leipzig. In 1904 he did his doctorate on the topic of Old Prussian personal names , followed six years later by his habilitation with an examination of the Finnish-Ugric word and sentence connection .

After a temporary job as a teacher at a private school in 1915, Lewy worked at Berlin University . In 1925 he became adjunct professor there at the University's Hungarian Institute. In 1933 he was initially dismissed due to his Jewish origins, but hired again a few months later. The final dismissal followed in 1935.

After an application to leave Palestine was not approved, Lewy came to Ireland with the help of the Egyptologist Alan Gardiner , where he lived from 1937. From 1939 he was active at the Irish Academy and Dublin University College. In 1947 the University of Dublin appointed him Professor of Linguistics. At the same time, Lewy acquired Irish citizenship.

Lewy was a member of the Royal Irish Academy . The main area of ​​activity Lewys was the Finno-Ugric studies .

Works

• The construction of the European languages , 1942
• Small Fonts , 1961

literature

• Johann Knobloch:  Lewy, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 418 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4
• Lewy, Ernst. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 20-25.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933–1945 . Osnabrück 1996-2004. Extended new edition Vol. 1: Documentation: bibliographical data A – Z; Vol. 2: Evaluations: persecution, emigration, specialist history, consequences. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag 2010 (with CD-Rom) ISBN 9783860570166 . This is the entry on Lewy, Ernst , accessed on April 15, 2018.
2. ↑ Ernst Lewy's Collection ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the University of Odense website, accessed June 29, 2012.  
3. ^ Obituary for Hartmut Katz on the website of the Faculty of Linguistics and Natural Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, accessed on June 29, 2012.