Karl Weigand

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Friedrich Ludwig Karl Weigand (born November 18, 1804 in Nieder-Florstadt ; † June 30, 1878 ) was a German spokesman for "historical" spelling.

Life

Weigand attended the school teachers' seminar in Friedberg from 1821 to 1824 , then worked for several years as an educator in the house of General von Müffling in Mainz and, after he had meanwhile prepared himself for the final exam through private studies, moved in 1830 to the University of Giessen , where he studied theology and philology until 1833 studied.

Subsequently, he was a teacher at the Realschule in Michelstadt , in 1837 at the Provincial School in Gießen, of which he was director from 1855 to 1867, and in 1846 was also ordained as a Protestant clergyman. After he had already started to give lectures on German philology and literature at the University of Giessen in 1849 , he was appointed extraordinary professor in 1851 and full professor for those subjects in 1867.

After Jacob Grimm's death (1863) he took over the continuation of the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm with Rudolf Hildebrand , in which he had been most active from the beginning.

Publications (selection)

  • Short German language teaching (Mainz 1838)
  • Dictionary of German synonyms (2nd edition, Mainz 1852, 3 vols.), The first work in the field of German synonymy based on historical research into the language
  • Investigations into Upper Hesse place names (1853)
  • German dictionary (originally 3rd revised edition of Friedrich Jakob Schmitthenner's Short German Dictionary ; 4th [6th] edition, Gießen 1880, 2 vols.)

literature

  • Otto Bindewald: In memory of Friedrich Ludwig Karl Weigand. Giessen 1879.
  • Iris Seemann: The Semantics of the Unknown. Historical dictionaries of meanings in the 19th century - Schmitthenner and Weigand. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1993. (= series German linguistics; 143) ISBN 3-484-31143-6
  • Jürgen Wagner: The word collector. Karl Weigand (1804–1878) and his time. City of Florstadt, Florstadt 2004. (= publications of the historical archive of the city of Florstadt; 4) ISBN 3-00-014963-5
  • Edward Schröder:  Weigand, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 360-363.
  • Alan Kirkness (ed.): Correspondence between the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm with Rudolf Hildebrand, Matthias Lexer and Karl Weigand . (Correspondence between the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Critical edition in individual volumes. Vol. 6.) Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-7776-1800-5

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personal data
SURNAME Weigand, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weigand, Friedrich Ludwig Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Florstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1878