Friedrich Lorentz

Friedrich Wilhelm Oloff John Lorentz ( born December 28, 1870 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg, † April 27, 1937 in Sopot, Free City of Danzig ) was a German independent scholar and Slavic studies.

Life

Lorentz's parents were Friedrich Ludwig Ernst Lorentz, cash computer in Gustrow, and Luise Maria Karolina Brunswig.

After the study of Indo-European and Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig, he received his doctorate in 1894 with a thesis about the weak preterit of the Germanic and related developments of the sister languages ​​to Dr. phil .. One of his teachers Eduard Sievers had been. After graduation, he eked out a living as a private scholar; for a postdoctoral lacked the financial means. After living for a time in Wismar, he moved to Karthaus, in an area with a high Kashubian population. He devoted himself mainly to the study of the Kashubian language. He was able to make excellent phonetic dialect recordings that could be used for further scientific analysis. The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, which had recognized the value of his investigations, promoted as a first printing his work. With his works, he rescued an endangered dialect at least for science. He also dealt with special Kashubian dialects.

About the study of place names grew his interest in the history and folklore of the countries concerned. He founded the Association of Folklore Kashubian and issued its 1908-1913 releases. He has published numerous essays on individual studies in the field of economics and regional studies of the Kashubian in West Prussian and Pomeranian scientific journals. His Great Kashubian Dictionary, on which he worked until 1933 for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was left unfinished: the Commission submitted handwritten manuscript completed in 2747 comprised closely written pages and only extends to the end of the letter P.

Since 1927 he was also active employees at the Ostland Institute in Gdansk. He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Leningrad and a member of the Institute zachodniosłowiański poses. In Sopot Lorentz had lived in the house Eichendorffstraße 7.

Works (selection)

  • About the weak preterit of the Germanic and related developments of the sister languages ​​, 1894.
  • Slovinzische grammar. Petersburg 1903 (236 pages).
  • Slovinzische texts, 1905.
  • Slovinzisches dictionary. Volume 1, 1908; Volume 2, 1912 (815 pages).
  • Kashubian grammar, 1919.
  • German and Polish names of the main villages of West Prussia west of the Vistula, 1919 ( 16 pages).
  • The name of Gdańsk, 1920 ( 84 pages).
  • Polskie i kaszubskiem nazwy miejscowośei na Pomorzu kaszubskiem, 1923.
  • Teksty Pomeranian ( Kaszubskie ). Kraków from 1912 to 1925.
  • History of pomeranischen ( Kashubian ) language. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Leipzig, 1925.
  • History of Kashubian, Berlin 1926 (97 pages).
  • Gramatyka pomorska. Volume 1, Posen 1927; Volume 2, Poznan 1929.
  • The Kashubian place names along with derivations. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1933 (65 pages).
  • The culture Pommeraniens the early Middle Ages due to the excavations, 1933.
  • The Kashubian dialect of Gorrenschyn. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1959 ( 84 pages.)
  • Slavic names Pomerania: the Western Pomerania, 1964 (150 pages).
  • Communications of the Association for Kashubian folklore (1908-1913, jointly with J. Gulgowski ).
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