Karl Lokotsch

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Karl Josef Lokotsch (born February 3, 1889 in Cologne-Deutz ) was a German teacher and philologist .

Life

After attending Cologne's municipal high school in Kreuzgasse (Abitur in 1908), Lokotsch studied mathematics and physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1912 under Friedrich Prym with a thesis on Avicenna's Euclid translation to become Dr. phil. After passing Lehramtsprüfung he entered in 1914 into the Prussian school system and taught now also at the University of Cologne and at the Graduate School of Cologne , where he 1928 teacher was promoted. His philological hobby were loanwords of exotic, that is, oriental or Indian origin in German and other European languages.

Publications

  • A contribution to the history of mathematics: Avicenna as a mathematician, especially the planimetric books of his Euclid translation . Ohlenroth, Erfurt 1912. At the same time dissertation from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1912.
  • Turkish Folk and Folk Poetry: for exercises in original Turkish script . A. Marcus and E. Weber, Bonn 1917.
  • Etymological dictionary of American (Indian) words in German: with constant consideration of the English, Spanish and French forms . Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1926.
  • Etymological dictionary of European (Germanic, Romance and Slavic) words of oriental origin . Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1927; 2nd, unchanged edition 1975 (= Indo-European Library , 2), ISBN 353302427X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information based on the article Lokotsch, Karl . In: Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 4th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1931, OCLC 257208441 , p. 376 .
personal data
SURNAME Lokotsch, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lokotsch, Karl Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Deutz
DATE OF DEATH 20th century