Ernst Windisch

Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch ( born September 4, 1844 in Dresden, † October 30, 1918 in Leipzig ) was a German linguist, Sanskritist and Keltologe.

Life

Ernst Windisch was born as the son of the teacher Louis W. Windisch and Caroline Lamb. He attended from 1857 to 1863 the Cross school in Dresden and then studied until 1867 Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Leipzig. He then earned his PhD. in classical philology with a thesis De hymnis homericis maioribus.

From 1867 to 1870 he worked as a teacher at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. At the same time he completed his habilitation thesis on studies on the origin of the relative pronoun in the Indo-European languages. 1870 and 1871 he lived in London, where he was involved in the cataloging of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the Indian Office Library and studied the Celtic languages ​​. In 1871, he returned as an associate professor in Leipzig. In 1872 he became a full professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Heidelberg. In 1875 he accepted a call to a similar professorship at the University of Strasbourg, before he became a professor of Sanskrit in 1877 in Leipzig, where he stayed until his death in 1918. He was also director of the Indo-European Institute ibid.

The privy was since 1883 a member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, along with a corresponding member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Knight 1st Class of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit, Commander of 2 class of Albrechts- Order and Ehrendorktor of theology in Leipzig.

Windisch also known as Indo-Europeanist and as a friend of the young Friedrich Nietzsche.

On April 18, 1873 he married Berta Roscher, the daughter of Wilhelm Roscher economists. My children were William ( born May 8, 1874 a high school teacher ), Helene ( born July 19, 1876), Hermann ( born August 3, 1878 Jurist ), Hans ( born April 25, 1881 theologian ) and Charles (born 16 July 1885, lawyer ).

Works

  • The Heliand and its sources. Vogel, Leipzig 1868
  • Studies on the origin of the relative pronoun in the Indo-European languages. Melzner, Leipzig 1869, at the same time Habilitationsschrift
  • With Berthold Delbrück: Syntactic research. Publishing house of the orphanage, Halle 1871
  • Concise Irish Grammar with reading pieces. Hirzel, Leipzig 1879
  • With Whitley Stokes: Irish texts. 4 volumes, Hirzel, Leipzig 1880-1909
  • Twelve hymns of the Rigveda, with Sayana 's commentary. Hirzel, Leipzig 1883
  • Iti - Vuttaka. Frowde, London 1889
  • Mara and Buddha. Hirzel, Leipzig 1895
  • The old Irish heroic saga Táin bó Cúalnge. 1905
  • The birth of Buddha and the doctrine of the transmigration of souls. Teubner, Leipzig 1908
  • The Celtic Britain to the Emperor Arthur. Teubner. Leipzig 1912
  • Festschrift. Ernst Windisch seventieth birthday on Sept. 4, 1914. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1914
  • History of Sanskrit philology and Indian archeology. 2 volumes in 1917 and 1920, reprint: de Gruyter, Berlin [ ua] 1992, ISBN 3-11-013013-0
  • Karin Steiner and Jörg Gengnagel (ed.): Small fonts. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07120-2
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