Paul Ackermann (linguist)

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Paul Ackermann (born April 20, 1812 in Altkirch , † July 26, 1846 in Montbéliard ) was a French linguist and writer .

Life

The 1812 in the Alsatian -born son of a Altkirch municipal employees went to Montbeliard to school and studied from 1828 to 1829 philosophy at the College royal in Nancy and then theology in Strasbourg . There he lost his faith and discovered his inclination for linguistic questions. In 1833 he went to Paris and worked there in various lexicographical endeavors until 1839. Together with the writer Charles Nodier , whom he later referred to as an 'ignorant esthete', he published the Vocabulaire de la langue française in 1836 . In Paris he made contacts with the economist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the literary critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve ; he had an extensive correspondence with both of them for a long time. In 1839 he went to Berlin with a recommendation from the Parisian Indologist Eugène Burnouf , where Alexander von Humboldt put him in the beginning of the editing project of the works of Frederick the Great in 1840 , on which he worked until his untimely death in 1846 “in the capacity of a grammarie and littérateur for the French editing of Notes , Compte-Rendus and Avertissements ”. Under the aegis of the publisher Johann David Erdmann Preuss , he formed the soul of the major editorial company, according to Humboldt's words. In 1843 he married Paris-born Victorine Choquet in Berlin, who published poems and stories under the name Louise-Victorine Ackermann and supported him in his work. The philologist, devoted entirely to his linguistic research, died at the age of 34 in his family in Montbéliard. Alexander von Humboldt had a memorial erected for him in the French cemetery in Berlin.

Publications

  • Dictionnaire biographique universel et pittoresque (collaboration) (1834)
  • Vocabulaire de la langue française, extrait de la dernière édition du Dictionnaire de l'Académie (together with Charles Nodier , 1836) Google Books
  • Essai sur l'analyse physique des langues, ou de la formation et de l'usage d'un Alphabet méthodique (1838) Google Books
  • La deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse by Joachim Dubellay; précédé d'un Discours sur le bon usage de la langue française (1839)
  • Recherches sur les formes grammaticales de la langue française et de ses dialectes au XIIIe siècle
  • Examen de quelques faits relatifs à la formation et à la culture de la langue française (started by Gustave Fallot in 1839)
  • Eloge de l'abbé d'Olivet, couronné par l'Académie de Besançon (1839)
  • Traité de l'Accent appliqué à la théorie de la Versification (1840, 2nd extended edition 1843)
  • Du principe de la poésie et de l'éducation du poète (1841)
  • Du principe de la poésie et de l'éducation du poète (1842)
  • Dictionnaire des antonymes ou contre-mots: ouvrage fondé sur les écrivains classiques (1842)
  • Essai sur les Catégories (1844)
  • Remarques sur la langue française (1844–1845)
  • Traité de l'accent, édition refondue (1848)

literature

  • Scholarly Berlin in 1845. List of writers living in Berlin in 1845 and their works (Berlin 1846)
  • Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve: PJ Proudhon - sa vie et sa correspondance , 4th edition. Paris 1873, pp. 238-241.
  • Edouard Sitzmann: Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes célèbres de l'Alsace (Rixheim 1909–1910)
  • Marc Hug: Ackermann, Paul . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Fascicle 1, Strasbourg 1982
  • Bernard Voyenne: “Les amis très proches” . In: Proudhon, sa correspondance et ses correspondants. Actes du colloque de la Société PJ Proudhon , Paris 1994, pp. 27-32.
  • Ulrike Moheit: Walking in Alexander von Humboldt's Berlin (Berlin 2003)
  • Jacques Bourquin: Galerie des linguistes franc-comtois , Besançon 2003, pp. 143–151 ( Linguistique et sémiotique , 44. Cahiers d'études comtoises , 68).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Learned Berlin in 1845. Directory of writers living in Berlin in 1845 and their works . Berlin 1846.
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackerman, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Altkirch
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1846
Place of death Montbeliard