Max Niedermann (classical philologist)
Max Niedermann (born May 19, 1874 in Winterthur ; † January 12, 1954 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss classical philologist .
Live and act
Max Niedemann was the son of the merchant family Jakob and Regula Susanna geb. Proud. In 1901 he married Jeanne Augusta Pierrehumbert. He graduated from high school in Winterthur. From 1893 to 1894 Max Niedermann studied at the University of Zurich and from 1894 to 1897 at the University of Basel . In 1897 he became Dr. Phil. With the dissertation e and i in Latin. A contribution to the history of Latin vocalism . After several stays in Paris from 1897 to 1899 and Freiburg im Breisgau , he worked from 1900 to 1906 as a teacher at the grammar school in La Chaux-de-Fonds . He was then a private lecturer , from 1909 to 1911 associate professor, from 1911 to 1925 full professor at the University of Basel for comparative linguistics and Sanskrit. In 1925 he left Basel and became professor of Latin language and literature as well as general linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel . From 1933 to 1935 he was rector and from 1944 honorary professor .
Niedermann was a member of the Comitato permanente par l'Etrurie, the Latvian Philological Society and, from 1946, a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . He published about 300 papers on Latin etymology , Latin glosses, Vulgar Latin, and textual criticism.
Political activities
In 1919, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Police, he visited the French camps where prisoners of the Central Powers were interned. From 1937 to 1945 he was a liberal councilor in Neuchâtel. In 1945 he took part in a series of conferences on the Lithuanian refugee issue in Yverdon . Another area of interest was the political development of the Baltic states and their culture.
Honors
- 1929 honorary doctorate from the University of Latvia in Riga
- 1944 honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
- 1947 honorary doctorate from the University of Besançon
Works
- Précis de phonétique historique du latin (1906).
- Samples from the so-called Mulomedicina Chironis , books II and III (1910).
- Marcelli de medicamentis liber (1916).
- Dictionary of the Lithuanian written language. Lithuanian-German .
- Titus Maccius Plautus . Aulularia, Menaechmi, Mostellaria (1947).
- M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae libri primi capita de gramatica (I 4-8) (1947).
- Lithuania after the war (1918)
- Poland and Lithuania (1919)
- La catastrophe polonaise (1920)
literature
- MG Redard (Ed.): Recueil Max Niedermann , Neuchâtel 1954, p. 8.
- MG Redard: In Memoriam Max Niedermann . In: Vox Romanica , 13, 1954, pp. 445-451.
- Walter de Sousa Medeiros: Prof. Max Niedermann . In: Euphrosyne , 1, 1957, pp. 251-255.
- MG Redard: Necrology for Max Niedermann (1874–1954). In: Vox Romanica , 13, 1954, pp. 444-351 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Niedermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Wachter: Max Niedermann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niedermann, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss classical philologist, university professor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1954 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel |