Ferdinand Wrede
Victor Karl Paul Ferdinand Wrede (born July 15, 1863 in Spandau , † February 19, 1934 in Marburg ) was a German linguist . His focus was on old Germanic dialects and dialect geography . From 1911 to 1933 he was head of the German Language Atlas project .
He was considered a representative of the " Berlin School of Linguistics ". He tried to refute the neo-grammatical thesis of the absence of exception of the sound laws and denied the possibility that today's German dialects developed directly from the old Germanic dialects.
Life
Ferdinand Wrede was born on July 15, 1863 in the then independent Spandau as the son of the music director Ferdinand Wrede and Minna Wrede, nee. Bechtold, born. From 1873 to 1881 he attended the Friedrichsgymnasium in Frankfurt an der Oder . He then studied German language and literature and history in Berlin and Tübingen until 1886 with Theodor Mommsen , Karl Viktor Müllenhoff and Wilhelm Scherer, among others . He received his doctorate from Wilhelm Scherer in Berlin in 1886 on the subject of “Remnants of language and dialectical features of the Vandals”. 1890 followed in Marburg the habilitation on the subject "About the language of the Ostrogoths in Italy".
From 1891 to 1934 he was a lecturer at the University of Marburg for the subject of German philology. Initially hired as a private lecturer, he received the title of professor in 1899, was employed as a full honorary professor from 1911 and as a full professor from 1920.
In addition, he worked as a librarian from 1902 and from 1919–1920 served as senior librarian at the Royal Library in Berlin (with residence in Marburg). From 1912 to 1932 he was head of work on the Hessian-Nassau dictionary . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
His most important students were Walther Mitzka , Luise Berthold (subsequent director of the Hessen-Nassau dictionary ), Theodor Frings , Karl Bischoff , Bernhard Martin and Max Weinreich .
German language atlas
From 1887 he worked as an assistant on the language atlas of the German Empire . In 1912 he took over the management of the project, which in 1918 became an institute of the University of Marburg. In 1920 he became director of the Central Office for the Language Atlas and German Dialect Research . In 1929 he retired. His successors were his students Walther Mitzka and Bernhard Martin.
family
Ferdinand Wrede was with Malwine Wrede, nee Wimmer, married. The marriage resulted in a son, the classical archaeologist Walther Wrede (1893–1990).
Honors
- 1925: Honorary membership of the Luxembourg Society for Language and Dialect Research
- Wredeweg in Berlin-Kladow
Publications (selection)
- On the language of the vandals (dissertation), Strasbourg / London 1886.
- On the language of the Ostrogoths in Italy (habilitation), Strasbourg 1891.
- with Georg Wenker : The Linguistic Atlas of the German Empire. Poetry and Truth, Marburg 1895.
- The Diminutiva in German, Marburg 1908.
literature
- Anneliese Bretschneider: Ferdinand Wrede, a child from Spandau . In: Jahrbuch für Brandenburgische Landesgeschichte 29, 1978, pp. 62–76.
- Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 2072 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5743, p. 132 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Entry in The Free Dictionary (English), according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979 .
- ↑ Published as a partial print: About the language of the vandals; first part .
- ↑ berliner-stadtplan.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wrede, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wrede, Victor Karl Paul Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spandau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1934 |
| Place of death | Marburg |