Karl Moritz Rapp

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Karl Moritz Rapp, 1822–1825

Karl Moritz Rapp (born December 23, 1803 in Stuttgart ; † April 7, 1883 ibid) was a German writer , linguist , translator, Germanist, English, Romance and Lusitanist .

life and work

Rapp studied in Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1827 with the work attempt at a scientific illumination of the relationship between ancient prosody and the modern language accent (Stuttgart 1827). After extensive travels, from 1832 he was a private lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he had Adelbert von Keller as a student. In 1837 he fell ill and was only able to resume teaching in 1844. From 1852 to 1880 he taught as an associate professor for modern philology and for Romance and Slavic languages ​​(the title without the references he had since 1846).

He wrote plays and translated from Latin (Plautus), English (Shakespeare), Spanish and Portuguese, the latter also in Swabian dialect.

Works

Karl Moritz Rapp, 1822–1825
  • Attempt to illuminate the relationship between ancient prosody and the modern language accent from a scientific perspective , Stuttgart 1827 (dissertation)
  • Abrégé de la grammaire allemande , Geneva 1829
  • Attempt at a physiology of language along with the historical development of occidental idioms according to physiological principles , 4 vols., Stuttgart 1836–41
    • 1. The comparative grammar presented as a theory of nature
    • 2. The languages ​​of the Middle Ages developed physiologically
    • 3. The living languages ​​of the Greco-Roman-Gothic tongue presented physiologically
    • 4. Supplements to Dr. KM Rapp's Physiology of Language
  • Comparative grammar
    • Outline of the grammar of the Indian-European language strain , 2 vols., Stuttgart 1852–1855
      • 1. Comparative grammar
      • 2. Root booklet. The most widespread language roots of the Indian-European tribe
    • Comparative grammar. Third, morphological division. Verbal organism. - The verbal organism of the Indian-European languages , 3 vol., Stuttgart 1858-1859
  • The golden age of German poetry , 2 volumes, Tübingen 1861
    • 1. From Klopstock to Göthe
    • 2. Schiller, Hebel and Jean Paul
  • History of Greek drama from the point of view of dramatic art , Tübingen 1862
  • Studies of the English Theater , Tübingen 1862
  • Spanish theater. Hildburghausen 1868

literature

  • Hermann Fischer:  Rapp, Moritz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 297-299.
  • August Holder : Moritz Rapp , in: History of the Swabian dialect poetry . Kielmann, Heilbronn 1896, pp. 131–137 ( digitized version )
  • Stefan Knödler: Moritz Rapp and his student theater in the Neckarhalde (1832-1835) . In: Sigrid Hirbodian / Tjark Wegner (ed.), Tübingen. From the history of the city and the university, Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018 (Landeskundig, Volume 4), pp. 213-236, ISBN 978-3-7995-2073-7 .
  • Erwin Koller (Ed.): Karl Moritz Rapp - Sixty Portuguese sonnets in Upper Swabian translation . In: TFM and Domus Ed. Europaea, Frankfurt am Main 1992 (= supplements to Lusorama: Series 2, Studies on the Literature of Portugal and Brazil; Vol. 7). ISBN 3-925203-23-0 or ISBN 3-927884-18-9 ( full text )
  • Doris Wagner (ed.): The Tübingen philologist Karl Moritz Rapp in correspondence with Adelbert von Keller . (= Yearbook of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Society 1993/94). Bayreuth 1996, ISBN 3-928683-09-8

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personal data
SURNAME Rapp, Karl Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, linguist, translator, Germanist, Romanist and Lusitanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1883
Place of death Stuttgart