Karl Ammer (Linguist)

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Karl Ammer (born October 25, 1911 in Vienna , † January 16, 1970 in Halle an der Saale ) was an Austrian - German linguist , Indologist and university professor .

Life

Karl Ammer grew up under difficult material conditions as the son of a Viennese warehouse worker. He studied general and comparative linguistics, classical philology and Indology at the University of Vienna with Nikolai Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy , Wilhelm Havers , Paul Kretschmer , Karl Luick and Erich Frauwallner . From October 1, 1938, he worked as a librarian at the Vienna Institute , then from September 1, 1940 as an assistant at the "Oriental Institute". With a indological work The comparisons in the Rigveda he became in 1939 a doctorate . This was followed by an interruption due to the Second World War with a prisoner of war , so that he did not resume his activities until 1949.

After his assistantship at the "Oriental Institute" , he completed his habilitation in 1950 with a linguistic study on the linguistic classification of the Nuristani languages , the title was: The linguistic position of the kafir languages . From 1952 to 1954 he headed the interpreting institute in Vienna ; actually “Institute for Translation and Interpreting” in its original name, “Institute for Interpreting Training”, founded in 1943 at the University of Vienna.

In 1954 he followed a call to the GDR as a professor at the seminar for "General Linguistics and Indology" at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . There he became director of the Institute for Indology and from 1959 vice dean of the Philosophical Faculty and from 1961 finally full professor for general linguistics . From 1954 to 1970, Ammer was a professor of general linguistics at the University of Halle, doing research and teaching. One of his academic students is Klaus Mylius , who became internationally known as an Indologist .

In addition to this teaching and research activity in Halle, he was also the founding director of the interpreting institute at Leipzig University . In 1961 Ammer joined the editorial committee of the Journal for Phonetics, Linguistics and Communication Research (ZPSK) from the Akademie-Verlag , Berlin ; he worked there together with the linguists Georg Friedrich Meier (Leipzig / Berlin), Otto von Essen ( Hamburg ), Ursula Feyer ( Wiesbaden ) and Fritz Hintze (Berlin).

Works (selection)

  • Signs, meaning and understanding. WZ MLU Halle, Ges. Sprachw. XII / 12, December 1963, pp. 951-964
  • About the phoneme. Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 11, '1964, pp. 47–55
  • On the question of translatability. Foreign languages ​​1964, 4, pp. 244-250
  • Language law in synchrony and diachrony. Biuletyn PT J zeszyt XXIII (1965), pp. 59-70

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Karl Ammer
  2. ^ Georg F. Meier: In Memoriam KARL AMMER (25.10.1911-16.1.1970). Journal for Phonetics, Linguistics and Communication Research, Vol. 24, (1971), Issue 1–2
  3. ↑ Wolfdieter Bihl: Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna: Research between Maghreb and East and South Asia: the professors and lecturers. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 3-2057-8371-9 , p. 164 f
  4. ^ Title page of the ZPSK for the edition from 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Ammer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German Indologist, university lecturer, author
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1970
Place of death Halle (Saale)