Theodor von Grienberger
Theodor Maria Ritter von Grienberger (born January 15, 1855 in Mittersill , † November 21, 1932 in Vienna ) was an Austrian German scholar and linguist .
Life
Grienberger, the son of a tax inspector, attended the State High School in Salzburg and studied medicine from 1873 to 1879 . From 1881 he worked as a volunteer at the Salzburg Study Library . In 1883 he switched to the University Library in Vienna as a trainee , where he began studying German language and literature alongside his job . After 1884, the Medical Absolutorium had taken, he concentrated on the German, especially in linguistics. Richard Heinzel became his academic mentor .
After studying in Vienna, Grienberger was employed as a librarian at the Salzburg Study Library in 1884. In 1890 he moved again to the Vienna University Library. Here he was in 1891 with a dissertation on Germanic names of gods on Roman inscriptions doctorate . In 1896 he was appointed librarian at the university library, in 1898 he qualified as a professor in Germanic language history and antiquity and has held lectures at the University of Vienna ever since. In 1904 he switched to the university library in Chernivtsi as curator. At the university there he continued his teaching activities and was appointed adjunct professor for Germanic language history and antiquity in 1906.
Grienberger returned to Vienna in 1919 when he was appointed senior librarian and head of the university library. When he retired in 1921, his venia legendi was renewed. He lectured at the University of Vienna well into old age.
In teaching and research, Grienberger concentrated on Germanic linguistics from the early days. For his research he drew on both inscription material and ancient writers. In his publications he dealt with Anglo-Saxon and South Germanic runic inscriptions, Germanic names, folklore, Old Latin and Italian dialects. He belonged to the German-Indo-European Society in Vienna and the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies in Stockholm.
Fonts
- For cataloging the so-called cryptonyms . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 2, 1885, pp. 327–328.
literature
- Grienberger, Theodor von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 59.
- Blanka Horacek: Grienberger, Theodor von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 57 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Herbert Tatzreiter : Grienberger, Theodor Maria Ritter von. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 604-605.
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor von Grienberger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grienberger, Theodor von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grienberger, Theodor Maria von; Grienberger, Theodor Maria Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian German philologist and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mittersill |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1932 |
| Place of death | Vienna |