Ferdinand Sommer (philologist)
Johann Ferdinand Sommer , also Ferdinand Johann Sommer (born May 4, 1875 in Trier , † April 3, 1962 in Munich ) was a German Indo-Europeanist and classical philologist .
Life
Ferdinand Sommer, son of an accountant, graduated from the Humanist Gymnasium in Kassel , then devoted himself to studying linguistics at the Philipps University of Marburg , and later at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . There he was in 1896 at Thurneysen to Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies he became a member of the Zaringia Freiburg Academic Association . In 1899, Sommer took up an assistant position with Karl Brugmann at the University of Leipzig , and in the same year he received his habilitation . In 1902 thetransferred full professorship in general and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Basel , in 1909 he followed a call to the University of Rostock , in 1913 a call to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , where he held the chair for comparative linguistics until 1924. After a two-year full professorship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , he took over the professorship for Indo-European Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1926 , which he held until his retirement .
The summer appointed to the secret government council was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , the Prussian Academy of Sciences (and later the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin ) and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Sommer is the author of important treatises on the historical research of the Latin and Greek languages. After Bedřich Hrozný's proof of the Indo-European character of Hittite , he shifted his research focus to the interpretation of Hittite texts.
He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on November 20, 1959.
Fonts
- On the doctrine of the pronoun personal infixum in Old Irish glosses, dissertation , Ehrhardt Karras, 1896
- The comparison suffixes in Latin, habilitation thesis , KJ Trübner, 1899
- Latin school grammar with linguistic notes. Moritz Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1920. (2nd edition 1923).
- Comparative syntax of school languages . Verlag BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1921. (Reprint of the 3rd edition of 1931. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1959. Further reprints 1971 and 1989).
- The Lydian and Etruscan F characters, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, 1930
- The Aḫḫijava documents. Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Phil.-hist. Dept. NF6, Munich 1932.
- Ahhijavāfrage and Linguistics, Publishing House of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1934 ( digitized version )
- Handbook of Latin phonetics and forms: an introduction to the linguistic study of Latin, edition 2. Heidelberg, Winter, 1948
- Hittites and Hittites, W. Kohlhammer, 1948
- On the history of Greek nominal compounds, publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1948.
literature
- German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1964, page 224.
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 368.
- Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 21st Edition , Volume 25, September 2006; ISBN 3765341452 . Page 489.
- Bernhard Forssman: Summer, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 566 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Ferdinand Sommer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- Overview of Ferdinand Sommer's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1900 to summer semester 1902)
- Biography of Ferdinand Sommer on Hittitologie.de - Biographical sketches for the specialist history of Hittitology
- History of Indo-European Studies in Jena with information on the biography of Ferdinand Sommer ( memento from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 609 kB) on the website of the Chair of Indo-European Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 66.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Summer, Ferdinand |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sommer, Johann Ferdinand (full name); Sommer, Ferdinand Johann (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Indo-Europeanist and classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1962 |
Place of death | Munich |