Rudolf Thurneysen

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Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen (born March 14, 1857 in Basel ; † August 9, 1940 in Bonn ) was a Swiss linguist and one of the most important Celtologists .

Life

Thurneysen studied classical philology in Basel , Leipzig , Berlin and Paris . The doctorate took place in Leipzig in 1879, the habilitation for Romance and Celtic philology in 1882 in Jena . From 1885 to 1887 he taught as an associate professor of comparative linguistic research and Romance studies in Jena and then accepted a call at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he took over his chair after Karl Brugmann left for Leipzig. In 1904 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1913 to 1923 he taught in Bonn as a full professor for Indo-European linguistics . He was an associate member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1910 and an external member since 1913. In 1919 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian and in 1925 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Thurneysen's research encompassed studies of the Romance and Indo-European languages, especially Celtic, with a focus on ancient Irish linguistics, philology and legal history.

Fonts

  • About the origin and formation of the Latin verbs on -io of the third and fourth conjugation and about their mutual relationship. Leipzig 1879. archive.org
  • Celto-Romance, the Celtic etymologies in the etymological dictionary of the Romance languages ​​by F. Diez. Hall 1884. archive.org
  • The Saturnian and its relation to the later Roman folk verse. Hall 1885. archive.org
  • The verb être and the French conjugation: a fragment from the history of the development of French inflection. Halle 1892. Google Books
  • Legends from old Ireland. Berlin 1901. archive.org
  • The Etymology: An Academic Speech. Freiburg 1905. archive.org
  • Handbook of Old Irish. Grammar, texts and dictionary.
    • Part I: Grammar. Heidelberg 1909. archive.org
    • Part II: Texts with a dictionary. Heidelberg 1909. archive.org
  • The Irish heroes and kings saga up to the seventeenth century. Hall 1921. archive.org

literature

  • Anne Heiermeier (Ed.): Bibliography of the scientific publications of Rudolf Thurneysen. In: Series of publications by the German Society for Celtic Studies (SdGkSt), Issue 10, Halle (Saale), Niemeyer 1942, p. 43 + portr.
  • Lerchenmüller: Thurneysen, Rudolf . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 10 : Thies-Zymalkowski . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096381-6 , p. 31 ( google.de ).
  • August Knoch: Rudolf Thurneysen in memory . In: Indogermanisches Jahrbuch XXV (1942), pp. 372–385.
  • Rudolf Thurneysen in memory . Ludwig, Bonn (1940), p. 27.
  • Leo Weisgerber: For Rudolf Thurneysen's 70th birthday . In: Indogermanisches Jahrbuch XI (1927), pp. 554-561.

Web links

Wikisource: Rudolf Thurneysen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 240.
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Rudolf Thurneysen. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Thurneysen, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurneysen, Eduard Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss linguist, Celtologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1940
Place of death Bonn