Wilhelm Streitberg

Wilhelm August Streitberg (born February 23, 1864 in Rüdesheim am Rhein , † August 19, 1925 in Leipzig ) was an Indo-European who specialized in Germanic languages, especially Gothic .

Life

From 1884, Streitberg studied comparative linguistics , German , Romance studies and classical philology at the Münster Academy . In 1885 he moved to the University of Leipzig, where he concentrated on Indo-European studies with well-known professors such as Karl Brugmann and Ernst Windisch . In 1888 he was with the dissertation The graduation of the nominal suffixes -io- and -ien- in the Germanic and their relationship to that of the Indo Dr. phil. PhD ; this work marks the beginning of his long study of the phenomenon of ablauts in Germanic languages .

In 1888/89, Streitberg deepened his studies at Berlin University . He then completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1889 for Germanic Philology and Indo-European Linguistics. In the same year he was appointed full professor of linguistics at the newly founded Catholic University of Friborg (Switzerland) , where he worked for nine years. During this time he founded the journal " Indo-European Research " in 1892 with his former teacher Karl Brugmann .

Due to differences of opinion with the Dominican Order and the Education Department of the Canton of Friborg, Streitberg (together with seven other professors) gave up his chair in 1898 and returned to Leipzig as a private lecturer . In 1899 he was appointed associate professor for Indo-European linguistics and Sanskrit at the Münster Academy, which was promoted to university in 1902. In 1906, Streitberg was appointed full professor and elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

In 1909, Streitberg accepted a call to the University of Munich for the newly established Chair of Indo-European Linguistics. At the same time he was made an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1911 a full member.

In 1920, Streitberg moved to Leipzig University to succeed Karl Brugmann. He remained connected to the Bavarian Academy as a foreign member; the Saxon Academy of Sciences elected him in 1921 as a full member.

He was married to Gertrud Leskien , a daughter of the Indo-Europeanist August Leskien .

Works (selection)

as an author

• On the Germanic language history. Trübner, Strasbourg 1892. (Reprint and digitized 2019, de Gruyter Mouton)
• Primitive Germanic grammar. Introduction to the comparative study of the old Germanic dialects . 4th edition Winter, Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 3-533-00504-6 (EA 1896).
• Gothic elementary book . 5th / 6th Winter, Heidelberg 1920 (EA 1897).

as editor

• The Gothic Bible . Winter, Heidelberg 2000 (reprint of the Heidelberg edition 1908/10).

1. The Gothic text and its Greek template . 2000, ISBN 3-8253-0745-X .
2. Gothic-Greek-German dictionary . 2000, ISBN 3-8253-0746-8 .

literature

• Johannes Friedrich u. a. (Ed.): Status and tasks of linguistics. Festschrift for Wilhelm Streitberg . Winter, Heidelberg 1924.
• Rüdiger Schmitt :  Streitberg, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 538 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Streitberg obituary in the 1926 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
2. ^ Members of the SAW: Wilhelm Streitberg. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 6, 2016 . 

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Streitberg  - Sources and full texts

• Biographical information on the website of the Historical Commission for Westphalia
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Streitberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the courses of Wilhelm Streitberg at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1889 to winter semester 1898)
• Wilhelm Streitberg in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Gothic-Greek-German dictionary (Heidelberg, 1910)
• Gothic elementary book (5/6 edition, Heidelberg, 1920)