Gotthelf Matthias Bronisch

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Gotthelf Matthias Bronisch ( Lower Sorbian Matej Bogumił Broniš ; born June 3, 1868 in Leuthen near Cottbus , † January 12, 1937 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a Lower Sorbian Protestant pastor and linguist .

Life

Gotthelf Bronisch was a son of the pastor Paul Friedrich Bronisch . After high school in Cottbus and military service, he studied Protestant theology and philology in Göttingen , Berlin and Leipzig from 1887 . In 1892 he received his doctorate in philology. In 1893 Gotthelf Bronisch began studying dialects of the Kashubian language in what was then West Prussia .

In 1900 Bronisch became assistant pastor at the Wendish Church in Cottbus. In 1903 he became pastor in Komptendorf near Cottbus and in 1908 in Barmen in the Rhineland. From 1917 Gotthelf Bronisch was senior pastor and superintendent in Züllichau in the Neumark .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Oscar I and E vocals. A statistical-descriptive and linguistic-comparative study . Leipzig: W. Drugulin, 1892 dissertation
  • Kashubian dialect studies . 2 booklets. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz. 1896, 1898

magazine

  • Serbska wutšoba ( Wendish Heart ), since 1890, the first Lower Sorbian youth magazine

Translations

literature

  • Friedhelm Hinze: On the life and work of Gotthelf Matthias Bronisch (1868–1937) . In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik Volume 37/2, 1992, pp. 283–286 ( online )

Web links

Wikisource: Gotthelf Bronisch  - Sources and full texts