Hans Krahe

Hans Krahe ( born February 7, 1898 in Gelsenkirchen, † June 25, 1965 in Tübingen ) was a German philologist and linguist.

Krahe was extraordinary since 1934 and from 1946 Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Würzburg, where he founded in 1942 the archives for the waters behalf of Germany. From 1947 to 1950 he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg and finally from 1950 until his death professor of comparative linguistics and Slavic Studies and Director of Indological and Slavic Languages ​​at the University of Tübingen.

In 1940, Krahe has been considered a candidate for the chair of comparative linguistics and Slavic philology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. After it intervened the Rector of EMU, the Professor of Botany Walter Mevius, on August 2, 1940 at the Reich Ministry of Education. At this time the appeal process by the EMU was apparently already almost complete. Based on new information, the rector felt obliged to intervene. He said he had since learned that the first named the suggestion list Prof. Hans Krahe have two Jewish grandmothers. Although the Civil Service Act an appeal to the Chair therefore does not exclude, he must emphasize as a biologist, that two Jewish Urgroßelternteile in erbbiologischer respect a Jewish grandparent correspond, so Krahe in erbbiologischer ways than mongrel 2nd degree must be addressed and him from this reason it was not possible to stand up for his calling. Added to this was coming, that Krahe not more engaged in the Nazi state. He therefore asked the REM about not called him.

Krahe took the view that the names of bodies of water were the earliest examples of European linguistic history and that, therefore, every linguistic research into the ancient times of a country must come from the waters name. Result of his research was that the oldest and waters had to be made ​​names for water or for directly related factors formed. Its formulation was as follows: " With regard to the semasiology and etymology of the most original and certainly oldest layer name of so-called water words comes from, that is, terms for ' running water ', ' source ', ' stream ' river ', respectively, flow '. .. with countless finer and finest shades of meaning, as they were the previous man in his accurate observation of nature in abundance at command ... ".

Known as' Alteuropäische Hydronymie " called theory of Krahe and his student Wolfgang P. Schmid is controversial to this day.

Works

  • The old Balkanillyrischen geographical names. Heidelberg, 1925
  • The language of the Illyrians. 1: The sources. 1955th VIII, 120 pp., ISBN 3-447-00534-3 2: The messapic inscriptions and their chronology by Carlo de Simone. The messapic personal name Jürgen sub man. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1964. ISBN 3-447-00535-1.
  • Our oldest river names. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1964. ISBN 3- 447-00536 -X.
  • Indo-European Linguistics. I. Introduction and Phonology. de Gruyter, Berlin 1966.
  • Indo-European Linguistics. II morphology. de Gruyter, Berlin 1969.
  • Germanic linguistics. I. Introduction and Phonology. de Gruyter, Berlin 1963.
  • Germanic linguistics. II morphology. de Gruyter, Berlin 1967.
  • Germanic linguistics. III. Word formation. Science Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1969. ISBN 3-11-006290-9. ( Sammlung Goschen )
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