Georg Karl Frommann

Georg Karl Frommann (born December 31, 1814 in Coburg ; † January 6, 1887 in Nuremberg ) was a Germanist and linguist.

Birthplace in Coburg, Steinweg 5

Frommann studied the German language in Göttingen under Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , emerged in 1837 with his edition of Herbort von Fritzlar and later turned to research into German dialects.

After running an educational institute in his hometown for several years, then from 1848 as a teacher at the Realschule there, he accepted a call to the newly established Germanic Museum in Nuremberg in 1853 , where he held the position of librarian until he went to the second in 1865 Board of the museum was appointed. In 1854, Frommann took over the editing of the journal Die deutscher Mundarten , founded by Pangkofer , which went under again in 1859 with the 6th volume and only made one volume when it was resumed in the fall of 1875.

Frommann made a particular contribution to researching the Nuremberg dialect by editing selected poems by Konrad Grübel and Johann Wolfgang Weikert (1778–1856) with grammar and glossary. Frommann also dealt with the linguistic revision of Luther's translation of the Bible, which was entrusted to him by the German Protestant Kirchentag, and after he had given a provisional sample in the Scriptures for the revision of Doctor Martin Luther's translation of the Bible (Halle 1862), it appeared in the Canstein Biblical Institute in 1870 the revised edition of the New Testament, which was followed in 1883 by a proof of the entire revised Bible. Frommann also procured a new edition of Johann Andreas Schmeller's Bavarian Dictionary (Munich 1869–78), which was enlarged with the author's addenda .

literature

Frommann, Georg Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 179-184.

Web links

Literature by and about Georg Karl Frommann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Johann Andreas Schmeller: Bavarian Dictionary. 2nd Edition. Edited by G. Karl Fromann. 2 volumes. Munich 1872–1877; Reprint Leipzig 1939 (Reprint Aalen 1973.)

personal data
SURNAME	Frommann, Georg Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1887
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Johann Andreas Schmeller: Bavarian Dictionary. 2nd Edition. Edited by G. Karl Fromann. 2 volumes. Munich 1872–1877; Reprint Leipzig 1939 (Reprint Aalen 1973.)