Georg Wenker

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Georg Wenker (1878)

Georg Wenker (born February 25, 1852 in Düsseldorf , † July 17, 1911 in Marburg ) was a German linguist .

Life

Georg Wenker's parents were the art dealer Johann Gottfried Wenker and Wilhelmine Petri from Dortmund. Wenker attended high school in Düsseldorf from 1867 to 1872, where he graduated from high school. He studied in Zurich , Bonn and Marburg and received his doctorate in 1876 from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the subject of the shift in the end of the stem syllable in Germanic. In 1877 he became a librarian in Marburg.

From 1888 until his death, Wenker was head of the Research Institute for the German Language at the University of Marburg and founded the Linguistic Atlas of the German Empire , also known as the Wenkeratlas , from which today's Research Center German Linguistic Atlas emerged . To this end, by 1880 he put together the 40 Wenker sentences named after him today , which he had teachers from all over the German Empire translate into their local vernacular in the following years .

Honor

Works

  • Georg Wenker: Writings on the "Linguistic Atlas of the German Empire" . Complete edition. Edited and edited by Alfred Lameli. With the collaboration of Johanna Heil and Constanze Wellendorf. 3 volumes. Hildesheim, New York, Zurich 2013f.
  • Linguistic Atlas of Northern and Central Germany. Based on material collected systematically with the help of elementary school teachers from around 30,000 locations. Department I, delivery 1. (6 cards and text booklet). Strasbourg / London 1881.
  • German language atlas. Based on the linguistic atlas of the German Reich founded by G. Wenker, started in a simplified form by F. Wrede, continued by W. Mitzka and B. Martin. Marburg 1927–56.

literature

  • Jürg Fleischer : History, layout and implementation of the questionnaire surveys from Georg Wenker's 40 sentences. Documentation, discoveries and re-evaluations. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2017 ( German dialect geography 123), ISBN 978-3-487-15616-3 .
  • Alfred Lameli : What else Wenker had to say ... The unknown parts of the 'Linguistic Atlas of the German Empire'. In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics 75/3 (2008), pp. 255–281.
  • Alfred Lameli: Explanations and means of indexing to Georg Wenker's writings . Hildesheim, New York, Zurich 2014.
  • Werner Heinrich Veith: Wenker, Georg (1852-1911). In: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Second Edition, 13 (2006), pp. 550-551.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5700, p. 292 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Wenker, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1911
Place of death Marburg