Hans Conon von der Gabelentz

Hans Conon of the Gabelentz ( born October 13, 1807 in Altenburg, † September 3, 1874 in Lemnitz ) was a German linguist.

Life

Hans Conon of the Gabelentz came from the Saxon noble family Gabelentz and studied at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen Kameralwissenschaft, law and oriental languages ​​, appeared in 1830 in the old burg civil service and in 1831 promoted to the Chamber and Government. Since 1847, District Marshal in the Grand Duchy of Weimar, he resided in 1848 at the Pre-Parliament to Frankfurt and then stood up for the Saxon duchies in the number of 17 trustees.

Later the end of November 1848, he acted as the interim parliament envoy to the dissolution of the Bundestag in July 1848. Appointed Prime Minister of the Duchy of Altenburg, he asked in August 1849 to his dismissal. In 1850 he went as a member of the State house of Altenburg to the Erfurt Parliament; 1851 elected him the landscape of Saxe- Altenburg president. Gabelentz died on September 3, 1874 at his family home Lemnitz Triptis.

The fruit of several years of study are his Eléments de la grammaire mandchoue ( Altenburg 1833). In the co-founders of the magazine for the customer of the East, he delivered papers on the Mongolian and then published in conjunction with Julius Loebe a new critical edition of the Gothic Bible translation of Ulfilas, together with grammar, Greek - Gothic dictionary and a Latin translation (Leipzig 1843, 2 ​​volumes ).

Later he turned to the languages ​​of the Finnish language tribe, the first in Germany who worked the same according to rational principles. He has published in the mentioned magazine ( Volume 2 ) a grammar and Mordvinian ( Volume 4 ) comparison of the two Chechen draw Saxon dialects, and soon after Broad syrjänischen grammar ( Altenburg 1841).

On a for us almost new language area his Short Grammar of tscherokesischen language in Höfer's magazine move for the Science of Language (Volume 3), the contributions to linguistics, of which the first three books (Leipzig 1852) grammars of the Dayak, Dakota and contain Kiririsprache, and his grammar dictionary with the Kassiasprache (Leipzig 1857).

Furthermore, published in the Proceedings of the Society of Sciences in Leipzig (1860 ): The Melanesian languages ​​according to their grammatical structure, etc. ( which in 1873 succeeded the second part ) and over the passive (Leipzig 1860); finally he gave the Manchu translation of the Chinese, Confucian works: S -shu, Shu-King, ski -king out in Mandschuischer translation with a Manchu - German dictionary ( Leipzig 1864). And the messages of the History and Antiquities Research Society of Easter country included by him numerous and valuable contributions to our knowledge of the history of his strict father country. After his death appeared also: History of the Great Liao, translated from the Manchu ( St Petersburg 1877). The number of languages ​​that Gabelentz explored more or less thorough, and of which he has a big part first studied scientifically, was above 80; since 1846 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

His son George of the Gabelentz was also a significant linguist.

The father of Hans Conon of the Gabelentz was the Privy Councillor and Chancellor altenburgische Hans Karl Leopold of the Gabelentz (1778-1831), who is known as one of the first card player today.

Literature (selection )

  • Walter Böttger: Gabelentz, Hans Conon of the. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7, p 2 f ( digitized ).
  • George of the Gabelentz: About Hans Conon of the Gabelentz. In: Reports on the negotiations of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological and historical class. 38 Volume 1886, pp. 217-241.
  • Martin Gimm: Hans Conon of the Gabelentz and the translation of the Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05235- X
  • Klaus Jena: The linguist Hans Conon of the Gabelentz ( 1807-1874 ). A reflection of Olaf Wegewitz occasion of the exhibition in the Lindenau - Museum Altenburg " The linguist Hans Conon of the Gabelentz ( 1807-1874 ). Lindenau - Museum, Altenburg 1998, ISBN 3-86104-033-6
  • Hartmut Walravens, Martin Gimm (ed.): German - mandjurisches dictionary (after HC of the Gabelentz ' Manchu to German Dictionary ). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02641- X
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