Wolfgang Schlachter

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Wolfgang Schlachter (born April 19, 1908 in Hamburg ; † January 4, 1999 in Göttingen ) was a German linguist and professor of Finno-Ugric Studies in Göttingen.

Life

After graduating from the Johanneum in Hamburg in 1927 , Wolfgang Schlachter , born with a severe visual impairment , studied German , Indo-European , philosophy and Slavic studies in Berlin and Göttingen . With a dissertation on "position of the adverb in the Germanic" he was in 1934 at the Humboldt University of Berlin PhD . His doctoral supervisor was Ernst Lewy .

Inspired by Lewy, Schlachter turned to Finno-Ugric studies . He first learned Hungarian at the Eötvös College in Budapest and then studied between 1936 and 1940 in Sweden with Björn Collinder and Wolfgang Steinitz, among others .

In 1940 he conducted field research on the now-extinct Malå dialect of Umesame in Swedish Lapland . His language documentation was published in 1958 in the form of a dictionary with a small collection of text contained therein.

Schlachter received his Venia Legendi in Finno-Ugric Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on passive syntax in Sami in 1949. His teachers in Munich were Ferdinand Johann Sommer and Erwin Koschmieder . He also initially remained active in Munich and held, first as lecturer and then as Extraordinary Professor , linguistic lectures and exercises focusing on Lappologie and Finno .

In 1960 he took over the chair from Julius von Farkas at the Finnish-Ugric seminar at the University of Göttingen , where he researched and taught until his retirement in 1976.

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Schlachter was an important representative of Sami studies in Germany. He learned several other Finno-Ugric languages, and he spoke Hungarian and Finnish fluently. He was able to use this competence combined with his extensive knowledge of other foreign language philologies to mediate between Finno-Ugric studies on the one hand and diachronic and synchronous comparative general linguistics on the other. With his precise descriptive-linguistic approach, which sees language as a unity of form and content, Schlachter stood in contradiction to transformational grammarians of his time.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • 1935. On the position of the adverb in Germanic. Leipzig
  • 1958. Dictionary of the Malå forest rag dialect and texts on ethnography. Helsinki
  • 1960. Studies on the possessive suffix of Syriac. Berlin
  • 1962. Studies on the growth of the vocabulary of Scandinavian and Finnish loan adjectives. Munich (Rev. reprint of 1952)
  • 1966. The agent-illative in the passive of Lappish. Goettingen
  • 1966. On the history of the Frequentativa in Hungarian. Goettingen
  • 1968. Work on structure-related grammar. Goettingen
  • 1974. On the structure of meanings of nouns and verbs. Goettingen
  • 1981. Comments on the nominal rate. Goettingen
  • 1984. Passive studies 1. Göttingen
  • 1986. Passive studies 2. Göttingen
  • 1991. Level change disorders in Malålapp. Wiesbaden
  • 1991. History and use of language, considered using the example of Lappish. Goettingen
  • 1993. The miracle of language. Goettingen

bibliography

  • [add. with Gerhard Ganschow] 1830–1970. Bibliography of Urals Linguistics. Munich (3 vols.)

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personal data
SURNAME Schlachter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Finnougrist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1999
Place of death Goettingen