Karl Becker (philologist)

Karl Ferdinand Becker ( born April 14, 1775 in Lieser; † 4 September 1849 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German physician, scientist, educator and linguist.

Life

His parents were Franz Anton Becker, head of an electoral iron hammer with the Lieser / Mosel and Anna Maria, born Sartorius. Around 1780 the family returned to the Westphalian home, and the father bought a farm in Schloss Neuhaus.

After attending high school in Paderborn Karl Ferdinand Becker entered the seminary in Hildesheim and shortly thereafter became a teacher at the Gymnasium Josephinum. However, he gave up an ecclesiastical career and studied since 1799 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen medicine. In 1802, he won by his treatise of the influence of external heat and cold on the human body has a price of medical faculty.

After the dissolution of the " Central Hospital Administration" he settled in January 1815 as a general practitioner in Offenbach down. Since the doctor's office was not a financial success, he devoted himself not only the education of his eight children, but also the education of the children of friends. In 1823 he set up in his house a boarding school to devote himself to educational tasks quite can. When instruction in the German language, he noted that a basic grammar was missing. Since then he has devoted himself to linguistic research and corresponded with Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Due to the financial success due to the high circulation of his " grammar school " Becker was able to devote all of language research, so he was known primarily as a linguist. His doctrine to interpret the existing language as a strictly logical organism, however, was refuted by Jacob Grimm, who presented the historical approach with language problems to the fore.

Publications

Scientific and medical writings

  • Instructions for the artificial production of saltpetre (1814 )
  • About the knowledge and cure of Petechialfiebers (1814 )

Grammatical writings

  • The German word formation (Frankfurt 1824)
  • German language teaching (Frankfurt 1827)
  • The organism of language ( 1827)
  • Full German Grammar (2nd edition, Prague 1870, 3 vols ), who aside the
  • School grammar of the German language ( Prague 1831 11th Edition re-edited by T. Becker
  • Handbook of German language, reissued Prague 1876)
  • Organisms of the language ( 2nd ed, Prague 1841)
  • The German style ( Prague 1848 3rd edition of Lyons, 1883);
  • Textbook of German style (edited by Th Becker, 1850; 2nd edition 1870)
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