Gustav Herbig (linguist)
Gustav Herbig (born June 3, 1868 in Kaiserslautern (then part of Bavaria), † October 1, 1925 in Munich ) was a German linguist , particularly Indo-European and Etruscan .
Life
Gustav Herbig, the son of the businessman Johann Heinrich Herbig (1839-1892), attended grammar school and since 1888 studied classical philology and linguistics at the University of Munich as a scholarship holder of the Maximilianeum . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the special houses association . After the teaching examination in 1892, he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he attended lectures and exercises with the Indo-Europeanists Karl Brugmann and August Leskien and with the Germanist Eduard Sievers .
In 1893 Herbig joined the library service at the Court and State Library in Munich . He worked as an intern, assistant and secretary. In addition, he continued to deal with Indo-European linguistics. His first extensive study, type of action and time stage: He completed contributions to the functional theory of the Indo-European verb in 1895; with her he became Dr. phil. PhD . In 1899 he got a permanent position as a librarian.
After his habilitation in Indo-European linguistics and Etruscology in 1910, Herbig was appointed full professor for linguistics at the University of Rostock in 1913 , where he was the rector's office in 1919/1920. In 1921 he moved to the University of Breslau , in 1922 he returned to Munich, where he was also elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He died in 1925 at the age of 57 from cancer that had only recently been diagnosed.
Gustav Herbig dealt with the ancient languages of Italy, especially with the Italian languages and Etruscan . He worked closely with the linguists Carl Pauli and Olof August Danielsson from Uppsala University , who compiled a collection of Etruscan inscriptions ( Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum ). Herbig took part in this company and took its place after Pauli's death in 1901. With the support of the academies in Berlin and Leipzig (mediated by Theodor Mommsen ), Herbig and Danielsson continued the collection of inscriptions.
Of Herbig's independent work, his editions of the Faliski inscriptions (1910) and the Agramer mummy bandage (1919) are particularly significant.
His son was the classical archaeologist Reinhard Herbig .
literature
- Gerhard Baader : Herbig, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 583 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 89.
Web links
- Literature by Gustav Herbig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Gustav Herbig in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Gustav Herbig in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Chair for Historical and Indo-European Linguistics: Wilhelm Streitberg (1909–1920) | Gustav Herbig (1922–1925) | Ferdinand Sommer (1926–1951) | Wilhelm Wissmann (1953–1966) | Meinrad Scheller (1968–1975) | Klaus Strunk (1977–1999) | Peter Schrijver (1999-2005) | Olav Hackstein (since 2005)
General and typological linguistics: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1977–1987) | Michael Job (1988–1991) | Wolfgang Schulze (1992-2020)
Professorship for Albanology: Martin Camaj (1971–1990) | Wilfried Fiedler (1991–1999) | Bardhyl Demiraj (since 2001)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbig, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1925 |
| Place of death | Munich |