Eduard Sievers

Eduard Sievers ( born November 25, 1850 in Lippold Mountain, † March 30, 1932 in Leipzig ) was a German medievalist and linguist germanistischer ( Neogrammarians ). He was a professor at the universities of Jena (1871-1883), Tübingen, Halle and Leipzig.

Sievers gained international attention through its rhythmic- melodic studies (1912 ) in which he explores the melody in spoken language. Supported by experiments with subjects he presents it to the thesis that literary texts a consciously or unconsciously inserted by the author melody is given, which is reproduced similar for most readers.

According to him, the Sieversche law, a Germanic / Indo According to the law, has been named.

For the Quantitative Linguistics Sievers is important because he was one of the precursors Menzerath - Altmann law paved the way and has conducted statistical surveys to literary works.

He was a member of the 1895 Leipzig fraternity Plessavia since the summer semester.

Writings

• Broad According to physiology as an introduction to the study of the phonology of Indo-European languages. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1876. ( More 4 editions in 1881, 1885, 1893 and 1901 under the title Fundamentals of phonetics as an introduction to the study of the phonology of Indo-European languages ​​with the same publisher)
• Runes and runic inscriptions. In: Hermann Paul ( ed.): ground plan of Germanic philology. First volume. Second, improved and enlarged edition. Trübner, Strassburg 1901, pp. 248-262.
• Rhythmic and melodic studies. Lectures and essays. Winter, Heidelberg, 1912.