Heinrich Zimmer (Celtologist)

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Heinrich Friedrich Zimmer with vita at the birthplace in Kastellaun

Heinrich Friedrich Zimmer (born December 11, 1851 in Kastellaun , † July 29, 1910 in Hahnenklee ) was a German Celtologist and Indologist . He was the first German professor of Celtology.

Life

Birthplace of Heinrich Friedrich Zimmer in Kastellaun

Zimmer came from a farming family in the Hunsrück who also operated a little linen weaving in the market town of Kastellaun and had therefore achieved modest prosperity despite the beginning decline of this rural textile trade, so that the son who became German and imperial in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 To the University of Strasbourg . There he should and wanted to become a teacher. He studied classical philology , plus Indology ( Sanskrit ) and Celtology. The important Indologist Rudolf von Roth was one of his teachers at the University of Tübingen .

In 1878 Zimmer completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin. In the winter semester of 1878/1879, the young Ferdinand de Saussure studied with him. In 1881 Zimmer was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Greifswald . In 1901 he took over a chair for Celtic languages at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the first ever in Germany.

In 1878 and again in 1899, Zimmer received the Bopp Foundation's sponsorship award . In 1894 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since January 1902 he was a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , from 1906 also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He also got the title of Privy Councilor .

In 1910, Zimmer committed suicide by drowning because of an incurable disease. He was buried in a "silent funeral" in Hahnenklee , Harz. His son Heinrich Robert Zimmer also became an Indologist. Successor to the Berlin chair was Kuno Meyer in 1911 .

Fonts

  • The nominal suffixes A and  in the Germanic languages , Trübner, Strasbourg 1876 (Sources and research on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic peoples, Volume 13).
  • Old Indian life. The culture of the Vedic Aryans according to the Samhitā illustrated , Weidmann, Berlin 1879.
  • Glossae Hibernicae e codicibus Wirziburgensi Carolisruhensibus aliis, Weidmann, Berlin 1881.
  • Celtic studies. Weidmann, Berlin 1881-1884;
    • Book 1: Irish texts with dictionary. 1881;
    • Book 2: About old Irish emphasis and verse art. 1884.
  • Pelagius in Ireland. Texts and studies on patristic literature , Weidmann, Berlin 1901.
  • Marginal glosses by a Celtist on the school strike in Posen-West Prussia and on the question of the Eastern Brand , Weidmann, Berlin 1907.
  • Language and literature of the Celts in general. In: Heinrich Zimmer, Kuno Meyer, Ludwig Christian Stern, Heinrich Morf, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke: The Romance literatures and languages. Including the Celtic (= The culture of the present. Tl. 1, Abt. 11, 1). Teubner, Berlin et al. 1909, pp. 1-77 .
  • William Dwight Whitney : Indian grammar, including the classical language and the older dialects (= library of Indo-European grammars. 2, ZDB -ID 501992-8 ). Translated from English by Heinrich Zimmer. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1879, ( digitized version ).

literature

  • W. Schulze: Memorial speech for Heinrich Zimmer . In: Treatises of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class . Born 1911. G. Reimer 1911.
  • Ernst Windisch : History of Sanskrit Philology and Indian Classical Studies. In order to have a name and subject index for the III. Partly expanded, otherwise unchanged reprint of the editions from 1917, 1920 and 1921. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-11-013013-0 , pp. 369–371.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are contradicting information on the place of death: Heinrich Zimmer's biography on the website of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin names Hahnenklee (Harz) as the place of death (without reference to the source); see. also Vita Rudolf Thurneysen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie at the University of Bonn (also without reference to the source). In contrast, Paul Dräger writes : A letter from Otto Seeck (1881) about the University of Greifswald. In: Eikasmós . 12, 2001, pp. 353–365, here p. 360, notes 28 and 29, ( digitized version (PDF; 326.16 kB) ), with reference to contemporary sources, Zimmer killed himself in Berlin.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zcp.uni-bonn.de  
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 267.
  3. ↑ See Paul Dräger : A letter from Otto Seeck (1881) about the University of Greifswald. In: Eikasmós . 12, 2001, pp. 353–365, here p. 360, note 29, ( digitized version (PDF; 326.16 kB) ).
  4. ↑ Seán Ó Luing: Kuno Meyer. 1858-1919. A biography. Geography Publications, Dublin 1991, ISBN 0-906602-17-3 , p. 85.
predecessor Office successor
Alexander Reifferscheid Rector of the University of Greifswald
1891 		Heinrich Helferich
personal data
SURNAME Zimmer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmer, Heinrich Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Celtologist and Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Kastellaun
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1910
Place of death Rooster clover