Heymann Steinthal

Chaim Heymann stone valley, also Heinemann, Hermann or Heinrich, ( born May 16, 1823 in Gröbzig, Anhalt, † March 14, 1899 in Berlin) was a German philologist and philosopher.

Life

Heymann stone valley studied linguistics and mythology at the University of Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin), where he was appointed in 1850 as Assistant Professor of Philology and Mythology. During his studies he dealt particularly with the theories of Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose voice Scientific works, he moved in 1884 later. From 1852 to 1855, drew stone valley to Paris, where he devoted his study of Chinese language devoted himself. In 1863 he was awarded an extraordinary professorship in Berlin. In 1869 he was one of the founding members of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. In 1872, Stone Thal also worked as a lecturer in philosophy of religion and the critical history of the Old Testament at the University of the Science of Judaism. Together with his friend and brother- Moritz Lazarus, he published already in 1860 the Journal of International Psychology and Linguistics, whereby both the foundation stone for the new, first mentioned in the title of science laid. Furthermore stone valley was in 1883 one of the directors of the German - Jewish Community Federation and as such responsible for the Department of Religious Education in various small communities.

His grave is located in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin- Weissensee.

Important works

  • The Linguistics of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Hegelian philosophy. Berlin 1848
  • The Classifikation the languages ​​represented as the evolution of language idea, Berlin 1850 ( unaltered reprint Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-8102-1131-1 ); also appeared in 1860 in a revised and expanded by the author and Misteli version under the title of the main characteristics of the types Sprachbaues as a second band in the demolition of linguistics. Berlin 1893
  • The origin of language in the context of the last questions all knowledge. Berlin 1851 (4th revised edition 1888)
  • The development of writing. Berlin 1852
  • Grammar, logic and psychology. Their principles and their relation to each other. Dümmler, Berlin 1855 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • History of Linguistics among the Greeks and Romans. Berlin 1863 ( 2nd edition 1889-1890/91 )
  • Philology, history and psychology in your mutual relations. Berlin 1864
  • The Mande - Negro languages ​​, psychologically and phonetically. Berlin 1867
  • Demolition of linguistics. Band in Introduction to Psychology and Linguistics. Berlin 1871 ( 2nd edition 1881)
  • General ethics. Berlin 1885
  • At the Bible and philosophy of religion. Berlin 1890 ( new series 1895); consists largely of implication, in the Society of Friends lectures in favor of the establishment of the Science of Judaism
  • Collected small fonts. Volume 1, Berlin 1880
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