Friedrich Lorentz (Slavist)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Oloff Johannes Lorentz (born December 28, 1870 in Güstrow , Mecklenburg ; † April 27, 1937 in Sopot , Free City of Danzig ) was a German private scholar and Slavist .

Life

Lorentz's parents were Friedrich Ludwig Ernst Lorentz, cash desk in Güstrow, and Luise Maria Karolina Brunswig.

After studying Indo-European and Slavic studies at the University of Leipzig , he received his doctorate there in 1894 with the dissertation On the weak past tense of Germanic and related formations of the sister languages to become a Dr. phil. One of his teachers was Eduard Sievers . After receiving his doctorate, he made a living as a private scholar; He lacked the financial means for a habilitation. After living in Wismar for a while , he moved to Karthaus , an area with a high Kashubian population. He now mainly devoted himself to researching the Kashubian language . He managed to make excellent phonetic dialect recordings that could be used for further scientific evaluations. The Petersburg Academy of Sciences , recognizing the value of his research, was the first to promote the printing of his work. With his works he saved a dialect that was threatened with extinction, at least for science. He also dealt with particular Kashubian dialects.

Through researching place names, his interest in the history and folklore of the countries concerned grew. He founded the Kashubian Folklore Association and published its communications between 1908 and 1913 . He published numerous articles on individual studies in the field of folklore and regional studies of the Kashubians in West Prussian and Pomeranian scientific journals. His Great Kashubian Dictionary , on which he worked for the Prussian Academy of Sciences until 1933 , remained unfinished: the handwritten manuscript submitted to the commission comprised 2747 closely described pages and only extended to the end of the letter P.

From 1927 he was also an active employee at the Ostland Institute in Danzig . Since 1925 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad and a member of the Institute zachodniosłowiański Posen. Lorentz had lived in Sopot at 7 Eichendorffstrasse.

Works (selection)

  • On the weak past tense of Germanic and related formations of the sister languages , 1894.
  • Slovenian grammar . Petersburg 1903 (236 pages).
  • Slovenian texts , 1905.
  • Slovenian dictionary . Volume 1, 1908; Volume 2, 1912 (815 pages).
  • Kashubian grammar , 1919.
  • German and Polish names of the most important localities in West Prussia on the left of the Vistula , 1919 (16 pages).
  • The name of Danzig , 1920 (84 pages).
  • Polskie i kaszubskie nazwy miejscowości na Pomorzu kaszubskiem , 1923.
  • Teksty pomorskie (kaszubskie). Krakow 1912–1925.
  • History of the Pomeranian (Kashubian) language . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin Leipzig 1925.
  • History of the Kashubians , Berlin 1926 (97 pages).
  • Gramatyka pomorska . Volume 1, Posen 1927; Volume 2, Poznan 1929.
  • The Kashubian place names and their derivatives . Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1933 (65 pages).
  • The culture of Pomerania in the early Middle Ages based on the excavations , 1933.
  • The Kashubian dialect of Gorrenschyn . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1959 (84 pages.)
  • Slavic names of Western Pomerania: Pomorze zachodnie , 1964 (150 pages).
As editor
  • Messages from the Association for Kashubian Folklore (1908–1913, together with J. Gulgowski).

literature

  • Cross-border biographies between Eastern and Central Europe: Effect - Interaction - Reception,

Weger, Tobias, [Ed.] Frankfurt am Main; Vienna [u. a.]: Lang; 2009

  • Vasmar: Nekrolog auf Friedrich Lorentz . In: Journal of Slavic Philology . Volume 14, 1937, p. 241 ff.
  • Old Prussian biography , edited by Christian Krollmann. Volume 1, 1941, p. 407.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 4th year, 1931.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Lorentz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vasmar: obituary to Friedrich Lorentz . In: Journal of Slavic Philology . Volume 14, 1937, p. 241 ff.
  2. ↑ Meeting reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , 1938.
  3. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 4th year, 1931.


personal data
SURNAME Lorentz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorentz, Friedrich Wilhelm Oloff Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar and Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1937
Place of death Sopot