Paul Wirth

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Paul Wirth ( Sorbian Pawol host ; * 11 August 1906 in Wartha at large Särchen ; † 20th April 1946 in Soviet captivity) was after Ernst Muckes withdrawal from Sorabistik the first Sorbe that dealt again to a greater extent with sorabistischen research.

Wirth is considered to be the founder of Sorbian linguistic geography .

Act

During his Slavic studies from 1927–1933 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , Wirth collected his first dialectal peculiarities while hiking through the Lausitz . He published the results of these hikes in smaller papers. On a suggestion of his teacher Max Vasmer led Wirth during later walks phonographic recordings Sorbian dialectal and literary language texts by which the two Slavic within the westermann rule According Library published.

Paul Wirth received his doctorate in 1933 with his "Contributions to the Sorbian (Wendish) language atlas". Sorbian texts were also submitted for Georg Wenker's German Language Atlas , but they were not considered. As a result, Wirth's doctoral thesis, which was published in two deliveries in 1933 and 1936, was the first linguistic and geographical publication of the entire Sorbian language area on a scientific level.

Despite some misconceptions (Faßke mentioned in 1975, for example, the adoption of Lew Schtscherba's idea of ​​a third Sorbian language area in the form of Schleifer and the Muskauer dialect as East Sorbian ), the language atlas formed an important basis for Sorbian research in the GDR after the Second World War. This is one of the reasons why Helmut Faßke , Helmut Jentsch and Siegfried Michalk have chosen to use the title, design and content preparation of the multi-volume Sorbian Language Atlas .

literature

  • Paul Wirth: Contributions to the Sorbian (Wendish) language atlas . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1975 (photomechanical reprint of the two deliveries from 1933 and 1936.).
  • Max Vasmer, Paul Wirth: Slavic Texts. I. Sorbian (Wendish) texts . Berlin 1932.
    • No. 1. Written Lower Sorbian language
    • No. 2. The Lower Sorbian dialect from Haasow , district of Cottbus
    • No. 3. Upper Sorbian written language
    • No. 4. The Upper Sorbian dialect of Groß-Koschen near Senftenberg

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personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landlord, Pawoł (Sorbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian linguist and founder of Sorbian linguistic geography
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartha at Groß Sarchen
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1946
Place of death Soviet captivity