Friedrich Carl Fulda

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Friedrich Carl Fulda

Friedrich Carl Fulda (born September 13, 1724 in Wimpfen , †  December 11, 1788 in Ensingen ) was a Protestant theologian and philologist . He was one of the leading Germanists of his time and participated in the formulation of a uniform standard for New High German , but rejected the position of the anomalists , mainly represented by Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Christoph Adelung .

Life

He was born the son of the evangelical pastor von Wimpfen and later went to school in Stuttgart. He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen . After that he was for some time field chaplain with a Württemberg regiment in the Netherlands. In 1749 he went to Göttingen to study history and statistics at the University of Göttingen, which had just been founded . In 1751 he took another position as a military preacher and came to the garrison at Hohenasperg fortress . There he met a daughter of the Ludwigsburg dean, whom he married in 1755. This marriage resulted in a total of 13 children, including his son Friedrich Karl von Fulda (1774–1847), who later became a professor of camera science at the University of Tübingen. In 1776 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1758 he went to the parish of Mühlhausen an der Enz as a pastor , where Philipp Friedrich Hiller previously worked. He spent the next 29 years in Mühlhausen, and this is where his most important writings were written. When the town came under the rule of the Duke of Württemberg as a gift in 1787, Fulda went to Ensingen, where he died the following year.

Publications

  • About the two main dialects of the German language. A prize publication from Mr. M. Friedrich Carl Fulda, which was crowned by the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen on November 9, 1771 . Breitkopf, Leipzig 1773
  • Collection and derivation of Germanic root words, according to the series of human terms, to show the table that has been added to the price text about the two main dialects of the German language, by the author of the same . Published by Johann Georg Meusel. Hall 1776
  • The Teütsche linguist presented to all lovers of their mother tongue for examination . 2 volumes. Friedrich Carl Fulda and Johann Nast, Stuttgart, 1777–1778
  • Attempt of a general German collection of idiotics, the collectors and lovers to save in vain trouble with already found words, and to conduct own continuation , given by Friedrich Carl Fulda, pastor of Mühlhausen an der Ems in the Duchy of Würtenberg. Berlin, Stuttgart 1788
  • Overview of world histories to explain the history chart , Augsburg 1783
  • Natural history of the Germans and human nature . Published by DF Gräter, Nuremberg and Altdorf 1795 (posthumously)
  • Ulfila's Gothic Bible Translation. The oldest Germanic document; according to your text, with a grammatical-literal Latin translation between the lines, including a linguistic theory and a glossary , worked out by Friedrich Karl Fulda. The glossary revised by WFH Reinwald. Published by Johann Christian Zahn, Weißenfels 1805 (posthumously)
  • Extensive handwritten estate in the Tübingen University Library (manuscript department).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 88.
  2. ↑ Information on the manuscript collection on the University Library website , accessed on September 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Fulda, Friedrich Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimpfen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1788
Place of death Ensingen