Hermann Ebel (Celtologist)
Hermann Wilhelm Ebel (born May 10, 1820 in Berlin , † August 19, 1875 in Misdroy ) was a German Celtologist .
At the age of eleven, Ebel came to his home town in 1831 as a student at the grammar school at the gray monastery and was able to successfully finish his schooling in 1836.
In the same year he enrolled at the Humboldt University a . a. for the subjects of history and classical philology . In the latter he became a student of Prof. August Böckh . Two years later Ebel moved to the university in Halle / Saale; u. a. to Prof. August Friedrich Pott , where Ebel studied comparative linguistics . Ebel returned to the University of Berlin in 1839 and completed his studies in 1842 with a doctorate from the linguist Prof. Franz Bopp .
Supported by his teachers, Ebel got a job as a teacher at the French grammar school in Berlin the following year . He later switched to the Cölln High School (also Berlin).
In 1852 Ebel was appointed as a teacher at the Schwarzbach Higher Education Institute in Ostrowo near Filehne . Some time later Ebel was transferred to the grammar school of Schneidemühl . In 1869 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1872 Ebel was appointed full professor and brought him back to the University of Berlin as a lecturer in comparative linguistics; thus Ebel became his successor five years after Franz Bopp's death.
At the age of 55, Prof. Hermann Ebel died of a heart attack on August 19, 1875 in the seaside resort of Misdroy on the island of Wolin .
His numerous smaller treatises (mostly published in Adalbert Kuhn's magazine for comparative linguistic research and in Kuhn's and August Schleicher's articles , some of them as high school programs , namely the writing De verbi britannici futuro ac conjunctivo , Schneidemühl 1866) concern etymological and grammatical questions from almost all of Indo-European Language area, but especially from the area of the Celtic languages; his work on these languages has also been translated into English ( Celtic studies , London 1863).
His main work is the new arrangement of Zeuss' Grammatica celtica (Berlin 1871). For Schleicher's Indo-European Chrestomathie (Weimar 1869) he edited the old Irish part. Death prevented him from completing a detailed Old Irish dictionary. Ebel has expanded and deepened the scientific research into Celtic , founded by Bopp and Johann Kaspar Zeuss , in every direction compared to the other Indo-European languages.
Awards
- 1869 : Sponsorship award from the Bopp Foundation
literature
- Julius Jolly: Ebel, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 516-518.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Hermann Wilhelm Ebel. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 18, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebel, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ebel, Hermann Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Celtologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1875 |
| Place of death | Miedzyzdroje |