Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

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Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861–1936)

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (born January 30, 1861 in Dübendorf ; † October 4, 1936 in Bonn ) was a Swiss Romance studies and linguist . He is one of the most important representatives of Romance linguistics.

life and work

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, a nephew of the poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , studied Indo-European studies in Zurich (with Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler ) and Berlin (with Johannes Schmidt ), but then did his PhD in Romance studies in Zurich on The Fate of the Latin Neutral in Romance (Halle as 1883). After a stay in Italy he completed his habilitation in Zurich in 1884 and then attended lectures in Paris with Gaston Paris . In 1887, the Zurich private lecturer received a call to Jena as associate professor for comparative linguistics . From there he was appointed to Vienna in 1890 , where he had his heyday as a full professor of Romance philology from 1892 to 1915 , and was also dean and rector. He then accepted an offer to Bonn to the famous chair of Friedrich Diez , but soon felt the painful difference between the cosmopolitan city of Vienna, where he was also socially glamorous, and the city of Bonn (whose population did not exceed the 100,000 mark until 1934). He consoled himself with lecture tours and visiting professorships abroad. Meyer-Lübke was the leading Romanist of his time.

From 1905 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1935 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . He was an honorary doctor from several universities (Cambridge, Coimbra, Graz, Turin).

Publications (selection)

  • Grammar of Romance Languages , 4 vols., Leipzig 1890–1902 (reprint Darmstadt 1972)
  • Italian grammar , Leipzig 1890
  • Simon Portius (Simone Porzio): Grammatica linguae graecae vulgaris. Reproduction de l'édition de 1638 suivie d'un commentaire grammatical et historique par Wilhelm Meyer with an introduction de Jean Psichari . E. Bouillon et E. Vieweg, Paris 1889.
  • Introduction to the Study of Romance Languages , 1901, 3rd edition 1920
  • Historical grammar of the French language , 2 vols., 1909, 1921
  • Romanesque etymological dictionary , Heidelberg 1911 (= collection of Romanesque elementary and handbooks , III, 3); 7th edition, ibid. 2009
  • Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke: The Catalan . Heidelberg 1925, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 180-digad-17027 .

literature

Festschriften

  • Principles of Romance Linguistics. Dedicated to Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke to celebrate the completion of his 50th semester of apprenticeship and his 50th year , ed. by Carlo Battisti , Halle [1911]
  • Festschrift for Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke on the occasion of his 60th birthday , ed. by Alfons Hilka , Halle as 1921

Obituaries

  • Ernst Gamillscheg : Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke . In: Journal for French Language and Literature 60, 1937, pp. 385–406
  • Jakob Jud : Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke . In: Vox Romanica , Vol. 2, 1937, pp. 336-344. ( Digitized version )
  • Alwin Kuhn: Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke . In: Journal for Romance Philology 57, 1937, pp. 778–784
  • Elise Richter : Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke . In: Archive for the Study of Newer Languages 170, 1936, pp. 197-210

Further literature

  • Theodor Elwert:  Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 303 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Mario Frasa: Meyer [-Lübke], Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Artur Greive: Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , in: Bonner learned. Linguistics . Bonn 1970, pp. 200-213
  • Yakov Malkiel : The six syntheses in the work of Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke . Vienna 1989
  • Gerhard Moldenhauer: Directory of publications by Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , in: Journal for French Language and Literature, 61, 1938, pp. 385–440
  • Leo Spitzer : Mes souvenirs de Meyer-Lübke , in: Le Français Moderne 6, 1938, pp. 213–224
  • Lothar Wolf : Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke and the beginnings of German-speaking Canadian studies , in: Canada Studies in Augsburg. Ed. Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg (Analyzes and Reports, 6) Augsburg 1990, pp. 19-25
  • Peter Wunderli : Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , in: Jakob Wüest (Ed.): Les linguistes suisses et la variation . Tübingen 1997, pp. 57-82
  • Peter Wunderli: Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861-1936). The linguist as a philologist , in: Ursula Bähler, Richard Trachsler (ed.): Portraits de médiévistes suisses (1850-2000). Une profession au fil du temps . Genève 2009, pp. 179-214

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 7, 2015 .
  3. ^ Members of the SAW: Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubendorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1936
Place of death Bonn