Rodolfo Lenz
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Rodolfo Lenz , actually Rudolf Heinrich Robert Lenz , naturalized in Chile as Rudolf Lenz Danziger (born September 10, 1863 in Halle an der Saale ; † September 7, 1938 in Santiago de Chile ), was a German Romance scholar and linguist who emigrated to Chile in 1890 .
Life
Rudolf Lenz was a high school student in Bremen, Breslau, Cologne and Metz . He studied in Berlin (with Adolf Tobler ) and Bonn (with Wendelin Foerster ) and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1886 with On the Physiology and History of Palatals (Gütersloh 1887). From 1887 to 1889 he was a teacher of French and English in Cologne and Wolfenbüttel. In 1890 he went to Chile (around the same time as Friedrich Hanssen ) and also taught French and English at the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile , from 1895 also Spanish grammar, became rector of the institute in 1922 and retired in 1925. In 1909 he founded the Sociedad de Folklore Chileno. Lenz earned merits in researching the Araucanian languages and their folklore, their influence on the spoken Spanish colloquial language in Chile and in the scientific description of the Chilean variety of Spanish itself, as well as Papiamentu .
His daughter, the writer Herta Lenz de Brüggen (* 1895), married the German-Chilean geologist Johannes Brüggen in 1913 .
Works
- Estudios araucanos , Santiago de Chile 1895–1897
- Diccionario etimológico de las voces chilenas derivadas de lenguas indígenas americanas , Santiago de Chile 1905–1910, reprint 1980. Online version available at: devochdelia.cl .
- Un grupo de consejas chilenas , Santiago de Chile 1912
- Sobre la poesía popular impresa de Santiago de Chile , Santiago de Chile 1919
- Sobre el estudio de idiomas , Santiago de Chile 1919
- La oración y sus partes , Madrid 1920, 4th edition 1944
- El papiamento , Santiago de Chile 1928
- El español en Chile , Buenos Aires 1940
literature
- W. Theodor Elwert : Lenz, Rodolfo (Rudolf). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 235 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Alfonso M. Escudero: Rodolfo Lenz , in: Thesaurus. Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 18, 1963, pp. 445–484 (with list of publications)
- María Ángeles Álvarez Martínez: Rodolfo Lenz. Contribución gramatical y lexicográfica , in: Historiographia Linguistica , 24, 1997, pp. 197-212
- Gabriele Knauer: Filólogos alemanes en América Latina. Rodolfo Lenz y el europeísmo cultural en el discurso científico de la lingüística iberoamericana , in: Diálogo y conflicto de culturas: estudios comparativos de procesos transculturales entre Europa y América Latina , ed. by Hans-Otto Dill, Frankfurt am Main 1993, pp. 139–152
- Ambrosio Rabanales: Rodolfo Lenz , in: Onomazein 7, 2002, pp. 161–181 (in Spanish)
Web links
- Literature by and about Rodolfo Lenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Coleccion Rodolfo Lenz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lenz, Rodolfo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lenz, Rudolf; Lenz Danziger, Rodolfo; Lenz, Rudolf Heinrich Robert (original name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist with Chilean citizenship |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1938 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |