Maximilian Lambertz

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Maximilian Lambertz (born July 27, 1882 in Vienna , † August 26, 1963 in Markkleeberg ) was an Austrian albanologist .

biography

From 1900 to 1905 he studied comparative linguistics and classical philology in Vienna and then obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on The Greek Slave Names (Vienna 1907). A state scholarship enabled him to travel to Italy and Greece, where, overhearing the conversations of fishermen from Attica and shepherds from Thebes, he had the first opportunity to hear Albanian . After his return he became a school teacher at the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna, but moved to Munich in 1907, where he worked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . In 1911 he returned to Vienna and resumed his career as a school teacher. His first publication in the field of Albanology - together with Georg Pekmezi - was a text and reading book in Albanian (Vienna 1913). In 1913 and 1914 he traveled to southern Italy for a few weeks each in order to research the Albanian dialects spoken there. In particular, he devoted himself to the lesser-known northern dialects of Arbëresh ( IPA : [ar'bəreʃ] ) in Abruzzo and Molise , especially the dialect of Villa Badessa (in Arbëresh: Badhesa ). The first photo collection was created on this trip.

From May to July 1916, Max Lambertz traveled to northern and central Albania for the first time as part of an expedition of the Balkan Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to study the Albanian language and folklore. On this trip he visited Gruda , Shkodra , Lezha , Kruja , Tirana , Durrës , the Kir valley , Shoshi, Shala , the valleys of the Drin and the Valbona and in particular Mirdita, where he devoted himself to the local dialect and collected folklore material. Some unique photos were taken on this trip. In December 1916 he returned to Albania, this time with the Austro-Hungarian troops who had occupied northern and central Albania during the World War . He was entrusted with the management of the Albanian school system and was the first foreigner to become a member of the Albanian Literary Commission, which was set up by the Austro-Hungarian authorities to create a standardized language for the school system. In Shkodra he was together with Gjergj Fishta , editor of the newspaper Posta e Shypnisë ( The Albanian Post. 1916-1918), in which he published some articles. The folklore material he collected was published in the volume Folk Poetry of the Albanians: An Introductory Study (Sarajevo 1917).

After the war, Lambertz returned to Austria, where he taught until 1934. At the same time he wrote books and articles on various aspects of Albanian culture, especially folklore. After he had to retire from school as a long-time member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party in 1934 after Dollfuss came to power , he enrolled at the university again at the age of fifty-three and this time studied Protestant theology, but his dissertation was abandoned by the faculty for racial reasons declined. His mother came from a Jewish family. In 1939 Lambertz moved to Munich, where he worked on the thesaurus again until 1942 . In 1943 he went to Leipzig, where he taught French and Italian at the Leipzig Foreign Language School and worked on the Pauly-Wissowa Realenzyklopädie der Classical Studies .

In June 1945, after joining the Communist Party , he became director of the Leipzig Foreign Language School and in October 1946 professor for comparative linguistics and until 1949 dean of the new pedagogical faculty at Karl Marx University . Until his retirement in 1957, he was also director of the Indo-European Institute.

Lambertz visited Albania in June 1954 and 1957. Even after the break in close political ties between Albania and the Warsaw Pact , he refused to completely give up his ties with the country. He continued to take part in receptions at the Albanian embassy in East Berlin, which at the time was not politically harmless.

As a full professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Leipzig, Lambertz lived with his wife Josepha in a villa in nearby Markkleeberg . He died on August 26, 1963 and was buried in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Own publications

  • The Greek slave names. Vienna 1907–1908.
    • 1st chapter. 1907. In: LVII. Annual report on the kk state grammar school in the 8th district of Vienna for the school year 1906/1907. Digitized
    • Part 2. 1908. In: LVIII. Annual report on the kk Staatsgymnasium in the 8th district of Vienna for the school year 1907/1908. Digitized
  • Albanian fairy tales and other texts on Albanian folklore. Vienna 1922.
  • Between Drin and Vojusa: fairy tales from Albania. Leipzig 1922.
  • Gjergj Fishta and the Albanian heroic epic "Lahuta e Malcís," sounds of the highlands: an introduction to the Albanian world of legends. Leipzig 1949.
  • The winged sister and the dark ones of the earth: Albanian folk tales. Eisenach 1952.
  • Albania tells: an insight into Albanian literature. Berlin 1956.
  • The Albanian Folk Epic. Hall 1958.
  • Gjergj Fishta: The sounds of the highlands. translated, introduced and annotated, edited by Fritz Valjavec, Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958 on behalf of the Munich Southeast Institute.

literature

Web links

Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The photo collection of Maximilian Lambertz Southern Italy 1913 - 1914. (No longer available online.) Lambertz.albanianphotography.net, archived from the original on January 27, 2014 ; accessed on October 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lambertz.albanianphotography.net
personal data
SURNAME Lambertz, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambertz, Max; Lambertz, Maximilian Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian albanologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1963
Place of death Markkleeberg