Franz Specht (linguist)

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Franz Specht (born November 1, 1888 in Roßlau (Elbe) , † November 13, 1949 in Mainz ) was a German linguist. His research focused on the Indo-European roots of the Baltic languages .

Life

After studying German, history and classical philology and being appointed as a study assessor in 1913, he volunteered in 1914 as a war volunteer. After being wounded, he resigned from the army, received his doctorate in 1918 and published the book The Language and its Origin in 1921 . In 1923 it earned him a full professorship for comparative linguistics in Halle without habilitation .

In 1937 he moved to the University of Breslau and in 1943 to the University of Berlin . Member of the German National People's Party from 1918 to 1933, Specht joined the Stahlhelm in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1940 . In 1945 he was released. From 1946 Specht worked as a professor at the University of Mainz . He died a short time later.

Publications (selection)

  • Lithuanian dialectical texts from Russian-Lithuania. Leipzig 1920 (dissertation)
  • Lithuanian dialects. Grammatical introduction with lexical appendix. Leipzig 1922
  • The language and its origin. Berlin 1921
  • The origin of the Indo-European declination. Göttingen 1944, reprint Göttingen 1947

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 391

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Franz Specht in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Specht, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosslau (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1949
Place of death Mainz