Manfred Szadrowsky

Manfred Szadrowsky (born June 30, 1886 in Rorschach ; † February 7, 1974 in Chur ) was a Swiss cantonal school teacher , adjunct professor and linguist .

Life

Szadrowsky was the grandson of the musician Heinrich Szadrowsky (1828–1878), a friend of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt , and the son of a railway official who came to Switzerland from Donaueschingen in Baden in 1899 and who was naturalized in Rotmonten -Tablat (now part of St. Gallen ).

He studied German language and literature and philosophy at the universities of Zurich and Munich , received his doctorate in 1912 under Albert Bachmann with a thesis on "Nomina agentis in Swiss German in their development of meaning" and completed his habilitation in 1930, also in Zurich, with the work "Abstract of Swiss German in its development of meaning" .

From 1912 to 1951 he worked as a canton school teacher in Chur, where Paul Zinsli was one of his students, and from 1939 to 1957 (according to the obituary published in the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” until 1956) as a private lecturer and adjunct professor of Germanic philology at the University of Zurich. In 1931 he refused an appointment to the Swiss Idiotikon .

Szadrowsky married Helene Burckhardt in 1930, daughter of the historian Paul Burckhardt .

research

Szadrowsky's research focus was on word formation and semantics of Swiss German . Living in Chur, he paid special attention to the Walser German in Graubünden . This perspective is also due to work on the dialect syntax and on the survival of Old High German language phenomena in High Alemannic as well as on German - Rhaeto-Romanic language contact and Rhaetian name research .

The basis for Szadrowsky's work on Swiss German was, on the one hand, the Swiss Idioticon , which he analyzed meticulously, and, on the other hand, his own data surveys, which he carried out in almost all Walser communities in Graubünden and which he in turn made available to the Swiss Idioticon.

Szadrowsky was also well versed in the old Germanic language levels and not only knew how to convey these in introductory courses and overview lectures as well as individual essays, but he also put together several collections of texts for the "Old German Exercise Texts" series. In later times he turned to Old Frisian and wrote about the language of the Old Frisian legal books. In 1950 the Frisian Academy in Leeuwarden awarded him membership.

Szadrowsky not only published in linguistic journals (primarily in the "Teuthonista" and in "Pauls and Braune's Contributions to the History of German Language and Literature"), but also knew how to prepare his material for popular science. Numerous articles in magazines such as the “Bündner Monatsblatt” or the “Alpen” bear witness to this.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Nomina agentis in Swiss German in their development of meaning . Frauenfeld 1918 (contributions to the Swiss German grammar XII).
• Abstracts of Swiss German in their development of meaning . Frauenfeld 1933 (contributions to Swiss German grammar XVIII).

Essays

• "Opposite sense" in Swiss German. In: Festschrift for Albert Bachmann. Berlin 1924, pp. 11-86; Supplements in Teuthonista 1 (1924) 24–40.
• High Alemannic linguistic monuments, especially from the period around 1500. In: Teuthonista 3 (1926) 43–56. 81-103. 185-92.
• Via so-called Abstracta. In: PBB 51 (1927) 41-79.
• Relationship between adjective and verbal abstracts. In: PBB 52 (1928) 1-26.
• Old high German multi-stemmed survival. In: PBB 52 (1928) 398-423.
• A Romance-German suffix connection. In: Teuthonista 5 (1928/29) 201-208.
• Romansh in Graubünden German. Habilitation lecture on the problem of language mixing. Published as a special print in the Bündnerisches monthly newspaper 1931.
• On the high Alemannic syntax. In: PBB 54 (1930) 65-137, 281/93; 60 (1936) 445-458; 61 (1937) 273-288.
• Latin Aria in Alemannic Switzerland. In memory of Albert Bachmann. In: ZNF 14 (1938) 31-55.
• Style and syntax of the old Frisian legal language. In: PBB 81 (1959) 131-160 and 83 (1961) 80-131.

Editions

• Gothic texts. Bern 1946 (Old German exercise texts 1).
• Heliand. Bern 1947 (Old German exercise texts 7).
• Hønsna þóres saga. Bern [1949] (Old German exercise texts 10).

swell

• Angelo Garovi: Szadrowsky, Manfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, 1966, p. 1465 f.
• The Free Rätier 150 (1946).
• Stefan Sonderegger : Committed to exact linguistics. Manfred Szadrowsky in memory. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 83 of February 19, 1974.
• Bündner Jahrbuch 1975, p. 165 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Szadrowsky in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Publications by and about Manfred Szadrowsky in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library .