Karl Bülbring

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Karl Daniel Bülbring (born July 24, 1863 in Voerde ; † March 22, 1917 in Bonn ) was a German Anglicist .

Life

Bülbring came from Voerde (now part of the municipality Ennepetal ) in Westphalia . He attended high school in Kassel and then studied English philology in Bonn , Berlin and again in Bonn . There he was in 1888 when Moritz Trautmann with a thesis on the history of ablaut the strong verbs in southern England to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1890 his habilitation followed at the University of Heidelberg . Bülbring's field of work was historical grammar. On March 4, 1893, he was appointed professor of English language and literature at the University of Groningen in the Dutch city of Groningen , and on August 17, 1900 in the same function at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he was co-director of the English Department of Second English next to Trautmann was. His Old English Elementary Book (1902) is among other things a standard work on North Humbrian . Bülbring founded the Bonn studies in English philology .

Bülbring was born with Hortense Leonore. Kann (1868–1938), who came from a Jewish Dutch family. The marriage produced two sons and two daughters, two of whom were born in Gröningen, the Netherlands, and two in Bonn. The youngest child was the future pharmacologist Edith Bülbring (1903–1990).

In 1908/09, Bülbring had a villa built in Bonn according to plans by the local architect and government master builder Heinrich Roettgen (→ Raiffeisenstrasse 1 (Bonn) ). His fortune is given in the 1913 Yearbook of Millionaires at one to two million marks .

Fonts (selection)

  • Old English elementary book . (= Collection of Germanic Elementary Books, I, 4 ) Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1902.
  • History of the abutment of strong verbs in southern English . In: Sources and Research , No. 63, Strasbourg 1889.
  • Studies on the Middle English metric . (= Studies in English Philology , Volume 50) Niemeyer, Halle a. S.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae , Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Dutch)
  2. ^ A b Bonn scholars: Linguistics (= Bonn scholars: contributions to the history of science in Bonn , volume 8), Röhrscheid, 1970, p. 245.
  3. ^ Richard Hogg: Old English Dialectology . In: Ans van Kemenade, Bettelou Los (Ed.): The Handbook of the History of English (= Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics , Volume 40), John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 978-0470756805 , p. 395 ff. (Here : P. 405).
  4. ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), p. 321. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  5. ^ Rudolf Martin: Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires. Rhine Province. Berlin, 1913, pp. 102-105.
personal data
SURNAME Bülbring, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bülbring, Karl Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Voerde
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1917
Place of death Bonn