Herman Lommel
Herman Lommel (born July 7, 1885 in Erlangen ; † October 5, 1968 ; also Hermann Lommel ) was a German Indo-Iranist and religious scholar .
life and work
Lommel was the son of the physicist Eugen von Lommel and his wife Luise, née Hegel. The mother was a granddaughter of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . He completed the humanistic grammar school and studied at the universities of Munich and Göttingen . He received his doctorate in 1912 in Göttingen and completed his habilitation in 1916, also in Göttingen. Between 1916 and 1918 he participated in the war . From 1917 he was professor for comparative Indo-European linguistics in Frankfurt / Main .
One of the central works of modern linguistics , the basic questions of general linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure , he translated into German.
His rendering of the story of the wandering of the seer Bhrigu into the afterlife from the ancient Indian sacrificial tract called Shatapatha Brahmana was of influence on mass and power , the main work of Elias Canetti .
Fonts (selection)
author
- Essays
- Bhrigu in the afterlife . In: Paideuma , Vol. 4 (1950) ISSN 0078-7809
- Addendum to “Bhrigu in the hereafter”. In: Paideuma , Vol. 5 (1952), pp. 93-109 ISSN 0078-7809
- Contribution in: Carl Philipp Hentze : Death, Resurrection, World Order. The mythical image in the oldest China, in the Greater Asian and Circumpacific cultures . Origo-Verlag, Zurich 1955 (2 volumes)
- Text tape .
- Illustrated book .
- Books
- Studies on Indo-European feminine formations . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1912 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen 1912).
- The religion of Zarathustra depicted according to the Awesta . Olms, Hildesheim 1971, ISBN 3-487-04119-7 (unchanged reprint of the Tübingen edition 1930).
- Ancient Brahmin legends . Artemis-Verlag, Zurich 1964.
- Religion and culture of the ancient Aryans. Representations and investigations . Klostermann, Frankfurt / M. 1935/39
- The ancient Aryans. Of the kind and nobility of their gods . 1935.
- The Aryan god of war . 1939.
- Bernfried Schlerath (Ed.): The Gathas of Zarathustra. The sequence of the Gathas of Zarathustra . Schwabe, Basel 1971, ISBN 3-7965-0170-2 .
- Small writings (Glasenapp Foundation; Vol. 16). 1st edition Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02702-5 .
translator
- The Yäšt's des Awesta (sources of the history of religion / 6; vol. 15). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1927.
- Ferdinand de Saussure: Basic questions of general linguistics DeGruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-017015-9 (reprint of the Berlin 1931 edition).
literature
- Bernfried Schlerath: Festgabe for Herman Lommel. Dedicated by friends, colleagues and students in honor of his 75th birthday on July 7, 1960 . Harrassowitz in Komm., Wiesbaden 1960.
- Bernfried Schlerath: Lommel, Herman. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Herman Lommel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bhrigu in the afterlife (Herman Lommel)
References and comments
- ↑ Original title: Cours de linguistique générale .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lommel, Herman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lommel, Hermann (spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Indo-Iranian and religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1968 |