Rudolf Thomas Siegfried

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Bust in the Old Library of Trinity College Dublin

Rudolf Thomas Siegfried (* 1830 in Dessau ; † January 10, 1863 in Dublin ) was a German linguist and Sanskrit scholar.

Life

Siegfried was born in Dessau and studied at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin , among others with Franz Bopp , the founder of historical-comparative Indo-European linguistics . Later he stayed in England to study the Welsh language and got to know the Grammatica Celtica of the German philologist Johann Kaspar Zeuss . The Irish historian James Henthorn Todd (1805-1869) invited him to Dublin in 1854, where he worked at Trinity College and later became professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics.

His bust, created by Joseph Robinson Kirk , is in the so-called Long Room of the Old Library of Trinity College in Dublin.

Works

  • On the Gaulish Inscription of Poitiers: Containing a Charm Against the Demon Dontaurios (1863) by Rudolf Thomas Siegfried, Carl Friedrich Lottner
  • Miscellanea Celtica by Rudolf Thomas Siegfried, Ed. Whitley Stokes , 1867

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Siegfried, Rudolf Thomas" , in: The Tübingen Students 1818-1918 .
  2. ^ "Siegfried, Rudolf Thomas (1830–1863)" , ainm.ie. Access date: August 16, 2019.
  3. ^ The Library of Trinity College Dublin, The Old Library, The Long Room. Access date: August 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Siegfried, Rudolf Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and Sanskrit scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1863
Place of death Dublin