Paul Diels

Paul Diels (born December 28, 1882 in Berlin ; born Paul Cäsar Oskar Gottlieb Diels ; † February 19, 1963 in Munich ) was a German linguist and Slavist .

Live and act

Diels' family grave

Diels was the youngest son of the philologist Hermann Diels . He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was born in 1906 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with the work The position of the verb in the older Old High German prose. Part I: The Main Clause, Section A IV. VBC Doctorate in Philosophy.

In 1909 he became a private lecturer for Indo-European linguistics in Berlin. Later he was a full professor at the German University in Prague , and in 1911 he became a professor at the University of Breslau . From 1947 to 1952 he taught at the University of Munich . Since 1944 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , and since 1947 a full member .

Diels published works on Indo-European, German and Slavic philology, including two volumes of an Old Church Slavonic grammar.

Paul Diels died in Munich in 1963 at the age of 80. He found his final resting place in the Diels family grave in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin.

Works

• The Slavs . Leipzig 1920
• For the Slavic and Germanic forms . Presented on July 2, 1948. Munich 1949
• From the history of the Latin script among the southern Slaves . Munich 1951
• The Slavic peoples. With a literature review by Alexander Adamczyk . Wiesbaden 1963
• Old Church Slavonic grammar: Part I: Grammar, Part II: Selected texts and dictionary . Heidelberg 1963 (2)

literature

• Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Edited by Hans-Michael Körner with the collaboration of Bruno Jahn. Volume 1 A – G, KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11460-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Diels in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diss. Dokt. philosophy
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 568.