Heymann Steinthal

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Heymann Steinthal, etching by Hermann Struck

Chajim Heymann Steinthal , also Heinemann, Hermann or Heinrich (born May 16, 1823 in Gröbzig , Anhalt , † March 14, 1899 in Berlin ), was a German linguist and philosopher .

Life

Heymann Steinthal

Heymann Steinthal graduated from high school in Bernburg (Saale) and studied linguistics and mythology at the University of Berlin , where he was appointed private lecturer in philology and mythology in 1850 . During his studies he was particularly concerned with the theories of Wilhelm von Humboldt , whose linguistic works he later published in 1884. From 1852 to 1855 Steinthal moved to Paris , where he devoted himself to his studies of the Chinese language .

In 1863 he received an extraordinary professorship in Berlin. In 1869 he was one of the founding members of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . From 1872 Steinthal also worked as a lecturer for the philosophy of religion and the critical history of the Old Testament at the College for the Science of Judaism . Together with his friend and brother Moritz Lazarus he published as early as 1860, the Journal of social psychology and linguistics , so the two laid the foundation for the new, former title Science loaded. Furthermore, Steinthal was one of the directors of the German-Israelite Community Association from 1883 and as such was responsible for the religious teaching department in various small communities.

tomb

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Publications (selection)

  • The linguistics of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Hegel 'sche philosophy . Berlin 1848
  • The classification of languages ​​presented as the development of the language idea. Berlin 1850 (unchanged reprint Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-8102-1131-1 ); also appeared in 1860 in a version revised and expanded by the author and Misteli under the title Characteristics of the Main Types of Linguistic Structures as Volume 2 in the Outline of Linguistics . Berlin 1893
  • The Origin of Language in the context of the Ultimate Questions of All Knowledge . Berlin 1851 (4th, expanded edition 1888)
  • The evolution of writing . Berlin 1852
  • Grammar, logic and psychology. Their principles and their relation to one another. Dümmler, Berlin 1855 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive )
  • The saga of Samson . In: Journal for Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft. Dümmler, Berlin 1862 ( PDF, 2.6 MB at SZTE Miscellanea)
  • History of linguistics among the Greeks and Romans . Berlin 1863 (2nd edition 1889–1890 / 91)
  • Philology, history and psychology in their mutual relationships . Berlin 1864
  • The Mande Negro languages, psychologically and phonetically . Berlin 1867
  • Outline of Linguistics . Volume in Introduction to Psychology and Linguistics . Berlin 1871 (2nd edition 1881)
  • General ethics . Berlin 1885
  • On the Bible and the philosophy of religion . Berlin 1890 (new series 1895); consists mainly of presentations given in the Society of Friends in favor of the Institute for the Science of Judaism
  • Collected Little Writings . 1st volume, Berlin 1880
  • About Jews and Judaism. Lectures and essays . H. Steinthal, Berlin 1906 (2nd edition 1910)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The architectural and art monuments of the GDR, Berlin, I ; Ed. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, p. 142; Berlin 1984
personal data
SURNAME Steinthal, Heymann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinthal, Hermann Heymann; Steinthal, Chajim Heymann; Steinthal, Hajion; Steinthal, Chaim; Steinthal, Hajim; Steinthal, Haymann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Grobzig , Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1899
Place of death Berlin