Paul Scheuermeier

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Paul Scheuermeier (born September 25, 1888 in Zurich ; † August 13, 1973 in Bern ) was a Swiss Romance philologist and dialectologist .

life and work

Paul Scheuermeier was born in Zurich in 1888. In 1907 he passed the Matura at the Gymnasium Winterthur . From the winter semester 1907/08 to the winter semester 1909/1910 he completed a teaching degree at the University of Zurich . In the spring of 1909 he accompanied his brother on a nine-week trip to Italy as far as Bari . He first worked as a primary school teacher and later as a secondary teacher in Bauma .

In the spring of 1913 he enrolled again at the University of Zurich. In the same year he took part in an excursion of the Romance seminary to Graubünden , led by Louis Gauchat and Jakob Jud . In the summers of 1915 and 1916, he undertook research trips to Graubünden, Ticino and western Switzerland for his dissertation . In 1918 he completed his dissertation.

In the spring of 1919 Jud asked him "to travel to Italy for him and Karl Jaberg in order to record the dialect for an Italian language atlas to be created". After his acceptance, Jaberg and Jud trained him further in the summer of 1919 “in numerous meetings and practical exercises (...) in the method of recording living dialects and introduced him to the special aims of a linguistic atlas. After receiving an extraordinarily favorable judgment about the scientific, moral and physical suitability of Dr. Scheuermeier, we thought it advisable to conclude a contract with him that outlines his tasks, duties and rights vis-à-vis the company ».

In November 1919, Scheuermeier began recording voice and material for the language and material atlas of Italy and southern Switzerland . The path he had mapped out by Jaberg and Jud first led him to Graubünden and Ticino, and in the spring of 1920 he crossed the border into Italy. Instead of the originally planned two years for exploring southern Switzerland and northern Italy, Scheuermeier was ultimately on the road until April 1925. During this period he made a total of 306 recordings all the way down to Rome.

When he returned to Switzerland and took up a position as a high school teacher in Bern, Scheuermeier's work at the AIS did not end. Together with Jaberg and Jud, a “three bundle, a kind of scientific Rütli bundle ” was created during the exploration period. Scheuermeier used the holidays of the following years to carry out supplementary trips with the Bernese painter Paul Boesch focused on the factual. The results of this research were included in the publication of the Bauernwerk (1943), which made Scheuermeier's name known in connection with the work on the AIS. The total of two volumes - the second was published in 1956 - presented the explorers' expert collection of materials with a total of 873 photographs and 922 drawings and woodcuts (by Paul Boesch).

In 1963 Scheuermeier was accepted into the Florentine Accademia della Crusca . He died in Bern in 1973.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation edition of the University of Zurich .
  2. ↑ Scheuermeier
  3. ^ Karl Jaberg, Jakob Jud: Letter to the board of trustees of the Foundation for Scientific Research at the University of Zurich . 1920.
  4. ^ Linguistic and subject atlas of Italy and southern Switzerland (interactive version) NavigAIS-web
  5. ↑ Jud
  6. ^ Membership list of the Crusca
personal data
SURNAME Scheuermeier, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 13th August 1973
Place of death Bern