Eduard Prokosch

Eduard Prokosch ( born May 15, 1876 in Eger, Bohemia, † August 11 1938 in New Haven ( Connecticut ), USA ) was a linguist. He was the father of Gertrude Prokosch Kurath - Frederic Prokosch and Walther Prokosch.

Life

Prokosch studied law until 1897 in Prague and Vienna and emigrated to the USA in 1898, where he worked for a time as Vice Consulate of Austria in Sekrätär in Milwaukee.

He taught since 1901-1904 German at the University of Chicago, from 1905 to 1913 at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, 1913-1919 at the University of Texas, from 1919 to 1928 at the Bryn Mawr College, and from 1927 to 1929 New York University, and finally in 1930 as Sterling Professor of Germanic Languages ​​at Yale University to which he in 1929 as Professor Appointed changed.

Works

  • Contributions to the theory of demonstrative pronouns in the Old Germanic dialects. Karras, Hall 1906 (Leipzig, University, phil. Dissertation, 1905).
  • As a translator from English: Carl D. Buck: elementary book of the Osco - Umbrian dialects ( = Indo-European Library Division 1. Collection of Indo-European textbooks and handbooks series 1. grammars Vol 7, ZDB - ID 843767-1. ). Winter, Heidelberg, 1905.
  • The stability of the Germanic consonant system. In: Indo-European research. Vol 33, 1914, ISSN 0019-7262, pp. 377-394, doi: 10.1515/9783110242737.377.
  • The Sounds and History of the German Language. Holt, New York, NY, 1916.
  • An outline of German historical grammar. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1933.
  • A Comparative Germanic Grammar. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1939 ( In Russian: Э Прокош: .. Сравнительная грамматика германских языков Издательство иностранной литературы, Москва 1954).
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