Karl Penka

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Karl Penka (born October 26, 1847 in Müglitz (Moravia) , † February 10, 1912 in Vienna ) was a high school professor at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Vienna between 1873 and 1906 . A linguist by training , he later turned to race research , especially the question of the origin of the Indo-Europeans , whose area of ​​origin he - along with Ludwig Wilser - was one of the first to localize in Northern Europe. He not only used the term Aryans in a linguistic sense, but expanded it to a general term that also encompasses biology and culture. In the "Political-Anthropological Revue" founded by Ludwig Woltmann in 1902 , he was a regular employee until his death. With his work, Penka paved the way for racist and anti-Semitic linguistics, ethnology and antiquity.

Publications (selection)

  • The emergence of the syncretistic case in Latin, Greek and German. A contribution to the comparative case theory. In: Program of the KK Real and Obergymnasium in the IX. Municipal districts in Vienna for the school year 1873/74 (1874), pp. 4–26 ( google books ) [also as a separate print].
  • The nominal inflection of the Indo-European languages. Hölder, Vienna 1878 ( digitized version ).
  • Origines Ariacae. Linguistic-ethnological research on the oldest history of the Aryan peoples and languages. Prochaska, Vienna / Teschen 1883 ( digitized version ).
  • The origin of the Aryans. New contributions to the historical anthropology of the European peoples. Prochaska, Vienna / Teschen 1886.
  • Origin of the Aryan race . In: Das Auslands 1891, p. 132 ff.
  • New hypotheses about the original home of the Aryans. Thüringische Verl.-Anst., Leipzig 1906.
  • The emergence of the Neolithic culture of Europe. Thüringische Verl.-Anst., Leipzig 1907 (= contributions to racial studies , issue 2).
  • O. Schrader's hypothesis of the indo-Europeans' original home in southern Russia. Thüringische Verl.-Anst., Leipzig 1908 (= contributions to racial studies , issue 6).

literature

  • Gustav Kraitschek : Karl Penka +. In: Mitteilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien, Vol. 42 (3rd part, 12th volume), 1912, pp. 222–226 (with lit.-catalog).
  • Gustaf Kossinna : Deaths. Karl Penka. In: Mannus, Vol. 4, 1912, p. 346.
  • Kurt Riedel: The racial justification of the term "Nordic" by the Viennese professor Karl Penka. Dresden 1940.
  • Z. Filip: Biografický slovník okresu Šumperk. Šumperk 2001.
  • Lars von Karstedt: Language and Culture. A history of German-speaking ethnolinguistics. Diss. Hamburg 2004. pdf , 1.5 MB

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Wiwjorra: The Germanic myth . Construction of a world view in antiquity research of the 19th century. Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 2006 ISBN 3-534-19016-5 , p. 241 f.
  2. ^ Lars von Karstedt: Language and Culture. A history of German-speaking ethnolinguistics. Diss. Hamburg 2004. pdf , 1.5 MB, p. 78 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Penka, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Mohelnice
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1912
Place of death Vienna