Leo Meyer (Linguist)

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Leo Meyer, photo from around 1895

Leo Karl Heinrich Meyer (born July 3, 1830 in Bledeln , † June 6, 1910 in Göttingen ) was a German linguist and Russian State Councilor.

Life

Leo Meyer attended the lyceum in Hanover from 1844 to 1848 and the grammar school in Holzminden from 1848 to 1849 . From 1849 to 1852 he studied philology with Theodor Benfey in Göttingen , where he also became a member of the Corps Brunsviga . In 1856 he completed his habilitation, in 1862 he became associate professor . In 1865 he followed the call to the Imperial University of Dorpat and took over the chair for German and comparative linguistics. Nikolai Anderson , Leopold von Schroeder and Peter von Bradke were among his students in Dorpat . Meyer was an assessor since 1861 and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1865 . In 1877 he was appointed Imperial Russian Real State Councilor. From 1869 to 1899 Meyer was president of the Estonian learned society , from which he received honorary membership in 1894. In 1896 Meyer and his cousin Wolfgang Schlueter became an honorary philistine of Estonia . Released from his office in Dorpat in January 1899, he later went to ord. Honorary professor back to Göttingen.

Works

  • The infinitive of the Homeric language, a contribution to its history in Greek . Goettingen 1856.
  • Notes on the Ancient History of Greek Mythology . Goettingen 1856.
  • Comparative grammar of the Greek and Latin languages , 2 volumes. Göttingen 1861–1865.
  • About the inflection of adjectives in German . Goettingen 1863.
  • About the family names occurring in Dorpat. 1868. ( digitized version )
  • The Gothic language. Your phonetic design, especially in relation to ancient Indian, Greek and Latin . Goettingen 1869.
  • Livonian rhyming chronicle . Paderborn 1876.
  • Handbook of Greek Etymology , 4 volumes. Leipzig 1901/1902.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Leo Meyer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ^ A b Erika Kärner: Meyer, Leo Karl Heinrich. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1217-1218.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 41/412.
  4. ^ Bernhard Forssman:  Meyer, Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 363 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 168.

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Leo Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Bledeln
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1910
Place of death Goettingen