Max Vasmer

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Max Vasmer (1934)

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (Russified form: Максимилиан Романович Фасмер (Maximilian Romanovich Fasmer) * February 15 . Jul / 27. February  1886 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † thirtieth November 1962 in West Berlin ) was a German-Russian Slavonic .

Life

Max Vasmer - a son of German parents - studied from 1903 to 1907 in Vienna, Graz and St. Petersburg. He received his doctorate at the University of St. Petersburg in 1907, and in 1909 he completed his habilitation there in the subject of Indo-European Linguistics. In 1912 Vasmer was appointed professor at the St. Petersburg Women's College. From 1917 he worked at the University of Saratov and from 1919 at the University of Dorpat . In 1921 Vasmer was appointed to the University of Leipzig . There he founded the journal for Slavic philology in 1924 . In 1925 he followed a call to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Here he built the Slavic Institute.

Vasmer also stayed in Berlin during the National Socialist period - apart from a stay at Columbia University in New York in 1938/39. In 1940 he tried to intervene on behalf of the Polish academics arrested in the Cracow special campaign and also campaigned for persecuted Slavists.

After the end of the war, he resumed his lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin (East) in the winter semester of 1946/47. After a guest professorship in Stockholm in 1947/48, he returned to Berlin (West), where he worked at the Free University of Berlin from 1949 until his retirement in 1956.

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Max Vasmer was a member of the scientific academies in Leipzig , Berlin, Mainz , Vienna , Oslo, Copenhagen , Stockholm , Budapest, Moscow, Sofia and Helsinki and received a wealth of academic honors. In 1958 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and had been an honorary doctor of the University of Bonn since 1962 . He found his final resting place in the Evangelical Cemetery Berlin-Nikolassee in Steglitz-Zehlendorf . His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin from 1987 to 2009 .

family

Richard Vasmer was his brother.

Fonts

  • Eastern European place names (= Eesti Vabariigi Tartu Ülikooli toimetused. = Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis (Dorpatensis). B: Humaniora. Vol. 1, 3, ZDB -ID 401630-0 ). Mattiesen, Dorpat 1921.
  • with Erich Berneker : Russian grammar (= Göschen Collection . Vol. 66). 3rd, improved edition. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1927 (further editions).
  • Studies on the Albanian word I research . In: Acta et commentatationes Universitatis Dorpatiensis . University of Derpt, Dorpat 1921, pp. 1-71.
  • Addendum to the Albanian etymologies . In: Journal for Comparative Linguistic Research 50, 1922, pp. 247-8.
  • The Slavs in Greece (= treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Born 1941, No. 12, ZDB -ID 210015-0 ). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1941.
  • The Greek loanwords in Serbo-Croatian (= treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Born 1944, No. 3). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1944.
  • Russian etymological dictionary (= Indo-European Library. Department 5: Baltic Library. Series 2: Dictionaries. ZDB -ID 1341766-6 ). 3 volumes. Winter, Heidelberg 1953–1958 (Russian translation by Oleg Nikolajewitsch Trubatschow, with additions and notes: Этимологический словарь русского языка. Progress, Moscow 1964–1973).
  • as the founder: Russian Geographical Name Book. 11 volumes and map volume (Vol. 1–10. Vol. 11: Supplements and Supplements. ). Published by Herbert Bräuer on behalf of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Edited by Ingrid Coper, Ingeborg Doerfer, Hans-Jochen Pasenow, Klaus Piperek, Marit Podeschwik, Jürgen Prinz, Georg Viktor Schulz and Rita Siegmann. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964–1989.

literature

  • Richard Meister : History of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. 1847–1947 (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Memoranda of the entire academy . Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 528265-2 ). A. Holzhausen, Vienna 1947, p. 280.
  • Margarete Woltner , Herbert Bräuer (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Max Vasmer on the occasion of Max Vasmer's 70th birthday on February 28, 1956 (= publications of the Department for Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures of the Eastern Europe Institute (Slavic Seminar) at the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 9 , ISSN  0067-592X ). Eastern Europe Institute, Berlin 1956 (with Max Vasmer bibliography).
  • Norbert Reiter (Ed.): Max Vasmer on the 100th birthday (= publications of the Department for Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures of the Eastern European Institute (Slavic Seminar) at the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 66). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02733-9 .
  • Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-002153-5 , p. 372.
  • Marie-Luise Bott: The attitude of the Berlin University in the National Socialism. Max Vasmer's review 1948 (= news from the history of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Vol. 1). Humboldt University, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813135-6-7 ( online ; PDF; 1.2 MB).

References and comments

  1. ↑ The Julian date February 15 corresponded to the Gregorian date February 27 in the 19th century , but from 1901 it was February 28. This is why the last date is often incorrectly given as Max Vasmer's date of birth.
  2. ↑ a b c Catalogus professorum lipsiensium / Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig : Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Max Vasmer .

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personal data
SURNAME Vasmer, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vasmer, Max Julius Friedrich (full name); Фасмер, Макс Юлиус Фридрих (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1962
Place of death Berlin