Karl Jaberg

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Karl Jaberg (born April 24, 1877 in Langenthal ; † May 30, 1958 in Bern ) was a Swiss Romance philologist , linguist and dialectologist .

life and work

Jaberg received his doctorate in 1900 in Bern with Emile Freymond on pejorative development of meaning in French (in: Zeitschrift für Romansische Philologie 1901, 1903, 1905). From 1901 to 1907 he was a teacher in Aarau and Zurich. In 1906 he completed his habilitation in Zurich under Jakob Ulrich On the associative phenomena in verbal inflection of a south-east French dialect group. A principal investigation (Aarau 1906). In 1907 he became associate professor in Bern , and in 1909 full professor of Romance philology, Italian language and literature and worked until 1945. Under the influence of Jules Gilliéron (whom he had seen in Paris from 1900 to 1901) and Hugo Schuchardt , he designed the concept together with Jakob Jud den Monumental linguistic and factual atlas of Italy and southern Switzerland : AIS (8 vols., 1928 to 1940) ( an interactive version of which is available on the NavigAIS-web website ), explorers: Paul Scheuermeier , Gerhard Rohlfs , Max Leopold Wagner . From 1942 to 1948 Jaberg was director of the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande .

From 1928 to 1930 he was president of the international Société de Linguistique Romane . In 1937 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Other works

  • Language as utterance and language as communication , Braunschweig 1917
  • Idealistic New Philology: Linguistic Considerations , Heidelberg 1926
  • (together with Jakob Jud) The language atlas as a research tool, Halle as 1928
  • Aspects geographiques du langage: Conférences faites au Collège de France , Décembre 1933, Paris 1936
  • Linguistic research and experiences , Paris, Zurich, Leipzig 1937
  • Linguistic research and experiences: New series , ed. by Siegfried Heinimann, Bern 1965

literature

  • Festschrift dedicated to Karl Jaberg to celebrate his 60th birthday and to complete the 60th semester of his academic teaching post, April 24, 1937 . Hall a. P. 1937
  • W. Theodor Elwert :  Jaberg, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 210 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karin Rautmann: The creation of the "Linguistic and Subject Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland" AIS. Insight into a research process , Master's thesis, University of Hamburg, 1993
  • Obituary by Manuel de Paiva Boleo in: Revista Portuguesa de Filologia 10, 1960, pp. 419-449; Benvenuto Terracini in: Archivio glottologico italiano 44, 1959, pp. 84-100.
  • Siegfried Heinimann : On the history of the origin of the AIS (III): Letters from Jakob Jud to Karl Jaberg . In: Vox Romanica , 49, 1990, pp. 73-98 ( digitized version ).
  • Siegfried Heinimann: Necrology for Jarl Jaberg (1877-1958). In: Vox Romanica , 17, 1958, pp. 1-8 ( digitized version ).
  • Bibliography of publications by Karl Jaberg. In: Vox Romanica , 17, 1958, pp. 9-18 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Karl Jaberg. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed April 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Jaberg, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance philologist, linguist and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenthal
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1958
Place of death Bern