Georg Friedrich Meier (Linguist)

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Georg Friedrich Meier (born November 20, 1919 in Nuremberg ; † November 20, 1992 ) was a German linguist .

biography

Georg Friedrich Meier grew up in Bavaria , graduated from high school in Schondorf am Ammersee in 1937 and was drafted into the mountain artillery during World War II . Towards the end of the war he was in Italy to partisans on and arrived later in American captivity. Even then he spoke Italian , English , French , Spanish and Russian and worked as an interpreter for the American occupation authorities in Munich . He also translated for Bavarian newspapers.

In 1946 Meier began studying medicine in Munich , but soon switched to linguistics , Slavonic studies , oriental studies and Romance studies . Meier moved to the GDR , studied linguistics (among others with Brockelmann ), psychology and neurology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1949 and received his doctorate in 1953. In 1958, he qualified as a professor at the University of Leipzig .

In 1958 he founded the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Leipzig and was professor for general and applied linguistics and communication studies from 1959 to 1961 . He worked at the German Academy of Sciences (later the Academy of Sciences of the GDR ) in Berlin , founded its research center for automatic translation and in 1961 became professor for linguistics at Humboldt University . In 1959 he organized the 1st International Symposium “Signs and System of Language” in Erfurt , and in 1964 the 2nd in Magdeburg . 1961–1983 Meier published the journal for phonetics, linguistics and communication research (ZPSK, since 1993 language typology and universality research ).

He founded and headed the Institute for Phonetics and Communication Science until 1971 , which after the second university reform was merged with the Institute for Rehabilitation Education to form the Rehabilitation Science and Communication Research section. Meier worked in the German Studies Section until his retirement . In 1981 Meier was elected to the central board of the Esperanto Association of the GDR (GDREA). In 1986 he returned to Bavaria and taught at the University of Munich.

Meier was u. a. Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle, the Società di lingua italiana, the Society for Linguistic Data Processing and the Esperanto Association in the Kulturbund of the GDR.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Handbook of Linguistics and Communication Studies , Vol. 1: Language, Language Origin, Languages . Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1979 (with Barbara Meier).
  • A contribution to the exploration of the connections between language and thinking and the laws of development of language (dissertation). In: Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University Leipzig 9/10 (1952/1953), pp. 517–632.
  • The Zéro Problem in Linguistics - Critical Investigations into the Structural Analysis of the Relevance of Linguistic Form . (Writings on Phonetics, Linguistics and Communication Research, Volume 1) Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1961.

items

  • For or against Esperanto. In: Us and today. Ein Blatt der Jugend 1 (1946) p. 2, Munich, Erasmus-Verlag.
  • Situation and forecast of the languages ​​of the earth. A contribution to the problem of national languages, lingua franca and minority languages. In: ZPSK 33: 1 (1980). Pp. 63-74.
  • Problemoj kaj metodoj por semantika analizo kaj prilaboro. In: Ilona Koutny (ed.): Perkomputila tekstoprilaboro . Budapest: Scienca Eldona Centro 1985, pp. 115-124.

Translations

  • Tamara A. Amirova, Boris A. Ol'chovikov, Juri V. Roždestvenskij: Outline of the history of linguistics . [Очерки по истории лингвистики] Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut , 1980 (from Russian, with Barbara Meier).
  • Vladimir Z. Panfilof: Philosophical Problems of Linguistics . [Философские проблемы языкознания] Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1982 (from Russian, with Barbara Meier and Ute Mory).

literature

  • Ronald Lötzsch : Obituary. In memoriam Georg Friedrich Meier (November 20, 1919– November 18, 1992). In: Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.4 (1993), p. 334.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The work was laid out in six volumes. However, after the publication of the first volume, the publication was stopped due to the intervention of the Bulgarian state and party leadership due to the characterization of Macedonian as an independent language.
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1992