Ernst Windisch (linguist)

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Ernst Windisch

Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch (born September 4, 1844 in Dresden , † October 30, 1918 in Leipzig ) was a German linguist , Sanskritist , Celtologist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

Ernst Windisch was born as the son of the teacher Louis W. Windisch and Caroline Lamm. He attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden from 1857 to 1863 and then studied classical philology and linguistics at the University of Leipzig until 1867 . He was an academic student of Friedrich Ritschl and a close study friend of Friedrich Nietzsche . He then obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil. in Classical Philology with the dissertation De hymnis homericis maioribus . From 1867 to 1870 he taught as a teacher at the Thomas School in Leipzig. At the same time, he wrote his post-doctoral thesis on the origin of the relative pronoun in the Indo-European languages , with which he received the Venia legendi for Sanskrit and comparative linguistics .

From 1870 to 1871 he stayed in London , where he was involved in cataloging the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Indian Office Library and studying the Celtic languages. In 1871 he returned to Leipzig as an associate professor . The later Assyriologist Friedrich Delitzsch was one of his students at this time . In 1872 he became a full professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Heidelberg . In 1875 he accepted a call to the same professorship at the University of Strasbourg before becoming professor of Sanskrit in Leipzig in 1877, which he remained until his death in 1918. He was also director of the Indo-European Institute there. In the academic year 1887/88 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty and 1895/96 rector of the University of Leipzig. Anna Leonowens studied as a guest student with Windisch from 1897 to 1901.

The privy councilor was a member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences from 1883 and secretary of the philological-historical class from 1898 to 1914. In addition, he was a corresponding member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the British Academy and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy , knight 1st class of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit , Commander 2nd class of the Albrecht Order and honorary doctorate of theology in Leipzig.

On April 18, 1873, he married Berta Roscher, the daughter of the economist Wilhelm Roscher . Her children were Wilhelm (born May 8, 1874, grammar school teacher), Helene (born July 19, 1876), Hermann (born August 3, 1878, lawyer), Hans (born April 25, 1881, theologian) and Karl (* 16. July 1885, lawyer).

Works

  • The Heliand and its sources . Vogel, Leipzig 1868
  • Investigations into the origin of the relative pronoun in the Indo-European languages . Melzner, Leipzig 1869, also habilitation thesis
  • with Berthold Delbrück: Syntactic Research . Publishing house of the bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1871
  • Concise Irish grammar with reading pieces . Hirzel, Leipzig 1879
  • with Whitley Stokes: Irish Texts . 4 volumes, Hirzel, Leipzig 1880–1909
  • Twelve hymns of the Rig Veda, with Sāyanạ's Commentar . Hirzel, Leipzig 1883
  • Iti-Vuttaka . Frowde, London 1889
  • Māra and Buddha . Hirzel, Leipzig 1895
  • The old Irish legend of Táin bó Cúalnge . 1905
  • Buddha's birth and the doctrine of transmigration of souls . Teubner, Leipzig 1908
  • Celtic Britain to Emperor Arthur . Teubner. Leipzig 1912
  • Festschrift. Ernst Windisch on his seventieth birthday on September 4, 1914. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1914
  • History of Sanskrit Philology and Indian Classical Studies . 2 volumes 1917 and 1920, reprint: de Gruyter, Berlin [u. a.] 1992, ISBN 3-11-013013-0
  • Karin Steiner and Jörg Gengnagel (eds.): Small writings . Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07120-2

literature

  • The literary Leipzig. Illustrated manual for the world of writers and scholars, the press and the publishing book trade in Leipzig . Fiedler, Leipzig 1897.
  • Hermann Christern (Ed.): German Biographical Yearbook. Transition Volume 2: 1917-1920 . German publishing house, Stuttgart 1921.
  • Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women . Schulze, Leipzig 1905.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 4th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1909.
  • Max Förster, Eugen Hultzsch: In memory of Ernst Windisch . Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1919 (special print from the magazine of the German Oriental Society , vol. 73).
  • Johannes Hertel : Nekrolog auf Ernst Windisch , Leipzig 1922 (= reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-hist. Class, Volume 73, Issue 2).
  • Eugen Hultzsch (Ed.): Festschrift Ernst Windisch. Brought to you by friends and students for the seventieth birthday on September 4, 1914 . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1914.
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 10 . Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-23170-9 .

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Windisch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carol Diethe: Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism. 3rd edition, Scarecrow Press, Lanham (MD) et al. a. 2014, p. 374. Entry Windisch, Ernst Wilhelm Oskar .
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Windisch (linguist) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
  3. ↑ Peter Kuhlmann, Helmuth Schneider (ed.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon. (= Der Neue Pauly. Supplemnte Volume 6. ) Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, Sp. 293. Entry Delitzsch, Friedrich (editor: Reinhard Lehmann).
  4. ↑ a b Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 15.
  5. ^ Alfred Habegger: Masked. The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam. University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Windisch, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windisch, Ernst Wilhelm Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist, Sanskritist and Celtologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1918
Place of death Leipzig