Oswald Szemerényi
Oswald John Louis Szemerényi (born September 7, 1913 in London , † December 29, 1996 in Freiburg ) was a Hungarian comparative linguist specializing in Indo-European studies .
Life
Szemerényi received his training at the University of Budapest as well as at the universities in Heidelberg and Berlin . The Hungarian linguist Gyula Laziczius had a strong influence on him . In 1942 he received a position as a lecturer in Greek at the University of Budapest . In 1944 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the unity of the Baltoslawischen and in 1947 he became professor for comparative Indo-European studies in Budapest. In 1948 he went to England and worked at Bedford College until 1960 . From 1965 to 1981 Szemerényi was professor of linguistics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . There he founded the Freiburg Linguistic Circle. This circle was strongly influenced by the Budenz circle , which goes back to Josef Budenz , a pioneer of Finno-Ugric studies .
In 1982 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .
Publications (selection)
- 1960 Studies in the Indo-European System of Numerals , Heidelberg
- 1964 Syncope in Greek and Indo-European and the Nature of Indo-European Accent , Naples
- 1970 Introduction to Comparative Linguistics , Darmstadt
- 1989 Third, completely revised edition
- 1996 Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics , Oxford
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Directions of modern linguistics
- 1971 Part I: From Saussure to Bloomfield , 1916–1950 , Heidelberg
- 1982 Part II: The 1950s, 1950–1960 , Heidelberg
- 1972 Comparative Linguistics (Current Trends of Linguistics)
- 1977 Studies in the Kinship Terminology of the Indo-European Languages , Leiden
- 1980 Four Old Iranian Ethnic Names: Scythian - Skudra - Sogdian - Saka , Vienna
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Scripta Minora. Selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin. Edited by Patrick Considine and James T. Hooker , Innsbruck (Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics 53, 1-3),
- 1987 Vol. I: Indo-European
- 1987 Vol. II: Latin
- 1987 Vol. III: Greek
- 1991 Vol. IV: Indo-European Languages other than Latin and Greek (1991)
- 1989 At the sources of the Latin vocabulary , Innsbruck
literature
- Prehistory, History, and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory. Papers in Honor of Oswald Szemerényi. (Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1992)
- Historical Philology. Papers in Honor of Oswald Szemerényi II. (Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1992)
- Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Uralic. Papers in Honor of Oswald Szemerényi III. (Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1993)
Web links
- Oswald Szemerényi on titus.uni-frankfurt.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows: Oswald Szemerényi. British Academy, accessed August 4, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Szemerényi, Oswald |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szemerényi, Oswald John Louis (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian etymologist specializing in Indo-European studies |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1996 |
Place of death | Freiburg |