Gustav Meyer (Linguist)
Gustav Meyer (born November 25, 1850 in Groß-Strehlitz , Upper Silesia , † August 28, 1900 in Graz ) was a German linguist , Balkanologist and Indo-Europeanist .
Life
Gustav Meyer studied from 1867 Classical Philology , Indo-European , Modern Greek and Sanskrit at the University of Breslau . The doctorate took place there in 1871. From 1871 to 1874 he taught at the Ernestinum grammar school in Gotha . From 1874 he taught at the German Gymnasium in Prague , from 1876 he also taught as a private lecturer in comparative grammar of Greek and Latin at the University of Prague . In 1875 he received an extraordinary professorship for Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , he was appointed full professor there in 1881. Because of a serious illness he left the university prematurely in 1897 and finally died three years later. three months before his 50th birthday.
Gustav Meyer devoted himself primarily to research into modern Greek and Albanian, which he categorized as an independent Indo-European language for the first time .
literature
- Heinz Dieter Pohl : Meyer, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 344 ( digitized version ).
- Lochner-Hüttenbach: Meyer Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 426.
- Killy, Walther and Rudolf Vierhaus (Eds.) (1998). German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). Volume 7: May - Plessner. Munich (among others): KG Saur. P. 103 (with a list of Gustav Meyer's most important works).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist, Balkanologist, Indo-Europeanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groß-Strehlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1900 |
| Place of death | Graz |