Heinrich Wagner (linguist)

Heinrich Hans Wagner (* 1923 in Zurich ; † 1988 ) was a Swiss linguist , Celtologist and professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies .

Life

Wagner studied Indo-European , Old German and Celtology at the University of Zurich from 1941 to 1945 . In 1945 he traveled to Ireland for the first time. In Dublin he learned to master the Celtic dialects of Ireland, later he wrote the Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects, which is still considered a standard work today . In Zurich he was in 1948 with the work "On the origin of ē-verbs in the Indo-European languages, with particular reference to the Germanic formations" doctorate . Wagner is considered to be Julius Pokorny's most important student .

Publications (selection)

• On the origin of the ē-Verba in the Indo-European languages ​​with special consideration of the Germanic formations. Dissertation printer Leemann, Zurich 1950.
• The verb in the languages ​​of the British Isles. A contribution to the geographical typology of the verb (= book series of the Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. Volume 1.) Tübingen 1959.
• Gaeilge Theilinn: foghraidheacht, gramadach, téacsanna. ("The Irish of Teelin".) Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 1959 (2nd edition, ibid. 1979).
• Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects. 4 volumes. Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 1958–1964.
• Studies in the origins of the Celts and of early Celtic civilization. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1971, ISBN 9783484101524 .
• The Hittite from the standpoint of typological linguistic geography (= Testi linguistici. Volume 7). Giardini, Pisa 1985.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Máirtín Ó Murchú: Studia Hibernica. Volume 7, 1967, p. 207 .
2. ↑ Nekrolog in: Journal for Celtic Philology. Volumes 43-44, 1989, p. 226.
3. ↑ Joachim Lerchenmüller: "Celtic explosives". A study of the history of science on German Celtology from 1900 to 1945. De Gruyter, Berlin 1997, p. 422 .