Friedrich Bechtel
Friedrich Bechtel (born February 2, 1855 in Durlach ; † March 9, 1924 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German linguist who particularly researched Greek dialectology .
origin
Friedrich Bechtel came from a pastor family in Baden. His parents were Johann Friedrich Bechtel (1822-1911), Protestant dean in Durlach and his wife Emilie Auguste Harrer (1824-1896), daughter of the pastor in Allmannsweiler Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Harrer (* 1782) and Louise Kaufmann .
Life
He first studied theology and philology at the University of Heidelberg . After moving to the University of Göttingen , he turned to studying linguistics, which was represented in Göttingen by Theodor Benfey , Adalbert Bezzenberger and August Fick . As early as 1876, at the age of 21, Bechtel received his doctorate and qualified as a professor two years later . He also worked as an editor for the Göttingische Schehrten advertisements at the Society of Sciences , which appointed him assessor in 1882.
Bechtel worked as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen for two decades. In 1884 he was appointed associate professor. For the winter semester of 1895/1896, he moved to the University of Halle as a full professor , where he held the chair for linguistics as the successor to August Friedrich Pott . Also in 1895 Bechtel was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences.
Bechtel dealt with all Indo-European languages . However, his focus was on Greek and its dialects. With his extensive projects Collection of Greek Dialect Inscriptions (four volumes, Göttingen 1884–1915) and The Greek Dialects (three volumes, Berlin 1921–1924), he created standard works of Greek linguistics that have not yet been replaced. Bechtel was also the publisher of works in the Lithuanian language of Bartholomäus Willent , who worked in the 16th century ( Bartholomäus Willent's Lithuanian translation of Luther's Enchiridion and the Epistles and Gospels , Göttingen, 1882).
literature
- Hans Hartmann: Bechtel, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 694 ( digitized version ).
- Olivier Masson : Friedrich Bechtel et l'anthroponymie grecque . In: Friedrich Bechtel: Small onomastic studies: Essays on Greek proper names research . Königstein / Taunus 1981, pp. I – IV
- Rüdiger Schmitt : Friedrich Bechtel (1855-1924) . In: Historiographia Linguistica , Volume 6 (1979), pp. 129–135 (with list of publications)
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Bechtel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Friedrich Bechtel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bechtel, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bechtel, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durlach |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1924 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |