Otto Behaghel

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Wilhelm Maximilian Otto Behaghel (born May 3, 1854 in Karlsruhe ; † October 9, 1936 in Munich ) was a German specialist in German and professor at the universities of Heidelberg , Basel and Gießen .

Life

Otto Behaghel was the son of Oberkirchenrat Felix Behaghel (1822–1888) and his wife Pauline, née Wielandt (1827–1901). He attended preschool and grammar school in Karlsruhe and completed his military service in a Baden regiment in 1872/73 , where he was released as a lieutenant in the reserve. He then studied from 1873 to 1876 at the universities of Heidelberg , Göttingen and Paris , with Karl Bartsch in particular having a significant influence on the young student.

On April 22, 1876, he received his doctorate in Heidelberg on the subject of The Modes in Heliand , an attempt in the field of syntax for a doctorate in philosophy. In 1877 he passed his state examination in philosophy and in 1878 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in Germanic and Romance philology on the subject of the sequence of dependent speech in German in Heidelberg. Here he founded the literary journal for Germanic and Romance philology with Fritz Neumann in 1880 and in 1882 became an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg.

On June 9, 1883, he became a full professor of German philology at the University of Basel and on June 30, 1888, professor of German studies at the University of Giessen . There he also took part in organizational tasks and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1895, 1905 and 1907.

Behaghel made theoretical contributions to the German and Middle High German language. He formulated the Behaghelian laws . In the current topic-rhema-structure research and in quantitative linguistics , particular reference is made to the law of growing links .

In 1896 Behaghel was a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . From 1912 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1928 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

family

On August 2, 1887, Otto Behaghel married Klara Elisabeth Maria Dorothea Zöller (1866–1924), a daughter of the chemist Philipp Zöller . The daughter Elisabeth (* February 5, 1890 in Gießen; † 1967) and the son Otto Behaghel (* August 25, 1895 in Gießen; † February 16, 1961 there) are known from the marriage. Otto Behaghel was an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Giessen.

Awards

Fonts

  • Eneit. 1882
  • Hebels works, letters v. Johann Peter Lever. 1883
  • The German language . 1st edition. (1886), 1904 (3rd ed.), 1907 (4th ed.), 1954 (11th ed.)
  • Written language and dialect. 1896
  • The timing of the dependent speech. 1878
  • History of the German language . 1891
  • Syntax of the Heliand. 1897
  • Use of the tense in the subjunctive subordinate clause in German. 1898
  • The Heliand and the Anglo-Saxon Genisis. 1902, 1908 (2nd edition)
  • Conscious and unconscious in poetic creation. 1907
  • German syntax. I-IV (1923-1928)
  • About the use of "and". In: Journal for German Word Research. 6 (1904/05), pp. 366-368.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Best : Otto Behaghel (1854–1936). In: Glottometrics. 14, 2007, pp. 80–86 (PDF full text ). (Reprinted in: Karl-Heinz Best (Ed.): Studies on the History of Quantitative Linguistics. Volume 1. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, pp. 14-20. ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9 .)
  • Wolfgang Georg Bayerer: Finding aid for the estate of Otto Behaghel (1854–1936). (= Reports and works from the university library and the university archive Gießen; 45/1993). Giessen University Library, Giessen 1993 ( digitized version ), ( PDF )
  • Hannelore Götz, Klaus-Dieter Rack: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Supplementary volume: Biographical evidence for the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. (Darmstädter Archivschriften 10), Darmstadt 1995, p. 39.
  • Hermann Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607–1907. Verlag Alfred Tölpelmann, Giessen 1907, p. 53.
  • Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 119 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 68.
  • Friedrich Maurer :  Behaghel, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , pp. 747 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 152.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Behaghel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Otto Behaghel at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Behaghel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behaghel, Wilhelm Maximilian Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medievalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1936
Place of death Munich