Wilhelm Wissmann
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans Wissmann (born February 27, 1899 in Berlin ; † December 21, 1966 in Munich ) was a German comparative linguist .
Life
Wilhelm Wissmann was born on February 27, 1899 as the son of the bank accountant Otto Wissmann in Berlin-Moabit. He attended the Luisengymnasium in Moabit . After his military service, to which he was called up in September 1917 , he studied from Easter 1919 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with Wilhelm Schulze comparative linguistics, classical philology and German studies .
Wissmann occurred in 1918 that in his political orientation anti-Semitic active German Nationalists protection and Trutzbund at, where he remained until its dissolution.
In 1930 the doctorate to Dr. phil. and Wissmann began working on the German dictionary . From 1933 to 1939 Wissmann was a lecturer at the German Department of the University of Berlin. There he received his habilitation in 1938 . From 1937 he worked with Heinrich Marzell on the dictionary of German plant names . In 1939 he was assigned as a lecturer at the University of Halle , but drafted into military service in November 1939. In 1940 he became a permanent adjunct professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Already in 1942 he was appointed professor for Indo-European linguistics at the University of Königsberg . During the Third Reich , Wissmann belonged to the National Socialist People's Welfare , the Reich Air Protection Association and the Reich Colonial Association .
Wissmann was appointed to the University of Berlin in 1945, but was taken prisoner of war that same year. After his release from captivity in 1947, he continued his work at Wilhelm Schulze's chair in Berlin . In 1953 he was appointed to the University of Munich . From 1963 Wissmann published the dictionary of German animal names .
Together with Theodor Frings and Johannes Erben, he was awarded the GDR National Prize for the outline of German grammar compiled as part of his work on the German dictionary .
Awards and memberships
- 1949: Admission to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin
- 1949: Admission to the Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden
- 1957: Admission to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1961: National Prize of the GDR, 1st class for science and technology
Fonts (selection)
- Nouns postverbalia in the old Germanic languages together with a preliminary study of deverbative o-verbs. Göttingen 1932 (dissertation)
- with Heinrich Marzell and Wolfgang Pfeifer: Dictionary of German plant names. Leipzig 1943–1979
- Dictionary of German animal names. Berlin 1963–1968
Single receipts
- ↑ Birth register StA Berlin XII a, No. 576/1899
- ↑ a b c d e Entry on Wilhelm Wissmann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Wissmann: February 27, 1899 to December 21, 1966. In: Journal for comparative linguistic research in the field of Indo-European languages. Volume 80, 1966, p. II.
- ↑ a b c d e Wilhelm Wissmann: February 27, 1899 to December 21, 1966. In: Journal for comparative linguistic research in the field of Indo-European languages. Volume 80, 1966, SI
Chair for Historical and Indo-European Linguistics: Wilhelm Streitberg (1909–1920) | Gustav Herbig (1922–1925) | Ferdinand Sommer (1926–1951) | Wilhelm Wissmann (1953–1966) | Meinrad Scheller (1968–1975) | Klaus Strunk (1977–1999) | Peter Schrijver (1999-2005) | Olav Hackstein (since 2005)
General and typological linguistics: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1977–1987) | Michael Job (1988–1991) | Wolfgang Schulze (1992-2020)
Professorship for Albanology: Martin Camaj (1971–1990) | Wilfried Fiedler (1991–1999) | Bardhyl Demiraj (since 2001)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wissmann, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wissmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Hans (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comparative linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1966 |
| Place of death | Munich |