Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn

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Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn (born February 7, 1846 in Berlin ; † August 21, 1920 in Munich ) was a German Indologist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

Under the influence of his father Adalbert , Kuhn devoted himself to Indian and linguistic studies. After five years of studying at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen , he received his doctorate in Halle in 1869 with a dissertation on the Pali grammarist Kaccāyana . Here he became a private lecturer in 1871, in Leipzig in 1872 and a full professor in Heidelberg in 1875 . From 1877 to 1917 he was a full professor, initially for Aryan philology and comparative Indo-European linguistics, and from 1909 on the newly created chair for comparative Indo-European linguistics in Munich , where he also took over the rectorate in 1903/04. He has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1878 and from 1900 to 1920 as secretary of the philological-historical class.

Act

Kuhn's contributions to the Pāli grammar (1875) were fundamental to research into the language of Buddhism . Kuhn also devoted important linguistic studies to the languages ​​of the Hindu Kush, Hindu India and Ceylon. In several studies he showed the Buddhist influence on Christian legends. His Munich academy treatise "Barlaam and Joasaph" (1893), in which he traced Barlaam back to Bhagavān and Joasaph to Bodhisattva , became famous .

From 1873 Kuhn worked on the journal for comparative linguistic research in the field of Indo-European languages founded by his father (also cited as Kuhn's journal [KZ]), and continued it after his father's death. He also worked on the Oriental Bibliography founded by August Müller (1893 ff.) And on the Outline of Iranian Philology (1895–1904), which he edited together with Wilhelm Geiger .

honors and awards

Works

  • News about the Kuhn family 1549–1889. Straub, Munich 1890 digitized
  • Literature by Ernst Kuhn in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Literature by Ernst Kuhn in the Bavarian State Library in Munich
  • Karl G. Zistl: Bibliography of the writings of Ernst Kuhn . In: Carl Bezold, Lazian Scherman (ed.): Essays on the history of culture and language, especially of the Orient. Ernst Kuhn on his 70th birthday on February 7, 1916 . M. and H. Marcus, Breslau 1916, p. XII – XXV ( archive.org ).
  • Kaccayanappakaraṇae specimen . Halis Saxonum, 1869, LCCN  74-230150 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10250986-1 (dissertation).
  • Contributions to the Pali grammar . Dümmler, Berlin 1875.
  • The influence of Aryan India on the neighboring countries in the south and east. Speech at the beginning of the rectorate of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, given on November 21, 1903 . Munich 1903.
  • Wilhelm Geiger, Ernst Kuhn (Ed.): Outline of Iranian Philology . Trübner, Strasbourg 1896.

literature

  • Wilhelm Friedrich :  Kuhn, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 257-109 ( digitized version ).
  • Hanns Oertel: Ernst Kuhn on his 70th birthday . In: Carl Bezold, Lazian Scherman (ed.): Essays on the history of culture and language, especially of the Orient. Ernst Kuhn on his 70th birthday on February 7, 1916 . M. and H. Marcus, Breslau 1916, p. IX ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wilhelm, Friedrich:  Kuhn, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 257-109 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c Hanns Oertel: Ernst Kuhn on his 70th birthday . In: Carl Bezold, Lazian Scherman (ed.): Essays on the history of culture and language, especially of the Orient. Ernst Kuhn on his 70th birthday on February 7, 1916 . M. and H. Marcus, Breslau 1916, p. IX ( archive.org ).
  3. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries: Ludwig Maximilians University Munich - online bibliography. Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, accessed on April 3, 2012 .
  4. ^ Wilhelm, Friedrich: Sanskrit and ethnology - a successful symbiosis. On the 60th anniversary of the death of Lucian Scherman, full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1929 to 1938 . In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Akademie aktuell 04/2006 . S. 29-30 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Kuhn. Bavarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on April 14, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Hans Körner: The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and its members. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. Volume 47, 1984, pp. 299-398 (online at: periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  7. ^ Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna: Philosophical-historical class (ed.): Anzeiger der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophical-historical class - 39th year 1902 . S. 130 ( archive.org ).
  8. ^ A b c Official directory of teachers, civil servants and students at the Royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Winter semester 1908/09. (PDF; 10.8 MB) Ludwig Maximilians University, p. 22 , accessed on April 14, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhn, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist and Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1920
Place of death Munich