Ernst Fraenkel (Linguist)

Ernst Fraenkel ( born October 16, 1881 in Berlin, † October 2, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German linguist who particularly in the Indo-European and Baltic studies earned great merits.

Life

Ernst Fraenkel, son of internists Albert Fraenkel studied since 1899 at the Universities of Bonn, Leipzig and Berlin in John Schmidt Classical Philology, Sanskrit and Indo-European studies. In 1905 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on ancient Greek denominative verbs. From 1906 to 1908 was followed by studies in August Leskien, a renowned expert of the Baltic languages ​​, in Leipzig. In 1909 he became a lecturer at the University of Kiel, 1916 and 1920 associate professor. According to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Fraenkel was considered a Jew, even though he was baptized Protestant. As a so -called pre-war officer was allowed to teach Fraenkel yet. This situation changed since 1936 because of the Nuremberg Laws, due to which he was transferred at the age of 54 years in retirement. Scientific publishing in Germany was him so also prohibited. Fraenkel then moved on to Hamburg. From 1945 to 1954 he headed the Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University there. In 1953, he retired at the age of 72 years.

Works

Among the most important works include Fraenkel syntax of the Lithuanian case ( 1928) and the Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, by 1965 partly from Published posthumously by his students Erich Hofmann ( 1895-1982 ) and Eberhard Tangl ( 1897-1979 ).

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