Henry R. Kahane

Henry Kahane ( born November 2, 1902 in Berlin, † September 11, 1992 in Urbana (Illinois ) ) was an Austrian linguist born in Berlin and linguist with U.S. citizenship.

Life

Henry Kahane was the son of the playwright Arthur Kahane. He studied Romance in Berlin, Rome, Paris and Greifswald. In 1930 he received his doctorate in Berlin with Ernst Gamillscheg over the term of the jaw bone in the Gallo-Roman ( Jena / Leipzig 1932). In 1931, he married Renee Toole, who published as Renée Kahane in 1934 completed his PhD at Gamillscheg and from then on, numerous research projects together with her husband. 1932 Kahane was a research assistant of his teacher, but was excluded from a scientific career in Germany because of his Jewish ancestry from 1933 and went to Florence. He was until 1938 a lecturer in Romance linguistics, his wife grew up in Greece Lecturer in Modern Greek. Then the couple emigrated to the United States, where Henry Kahane (after beginnings in Los Angeles ) from 1941 until his retirement in 1971 Professor ( for Italian and Spanish, from 1963 to linguistics) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign ( later on Center for Advanced Studies ) was. Kahane was co-editor of the journal Romance Philology and 1984 President of the Linguistic Society of America. Both Kahane received in 1977 an honorary doctorate from the University of Illinois and in 1988 the University of Berlin.

Writings

( Along with Renée Kahane )

  • Italian place names in Greece, Athens 1940
  • ( Along with Ralph L. Ward), spoken Greek, 2 vols, New York 1945/46, 1972
  • ( Together with Andreas Tietze ), The Lingua Franca in the Levant. Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana 1958
  • ( Along with Sol Saporta ) The Development of the verbal categories in Child Language, Bloomington, Ind. 1958
  • ( Along with Angelina Pietrangeli ), The Crater and the Grail. Hermetic Sources of the Parsifal, Urbana, 1965 ( reprint 1984)
  • ( Along with Lucille Bremner and Manlio Cortelazzo ) Glossario degli italiani antichi Portolani, Florence 1967
  • West and Byzantium: language: Lexicon of Byzantine Studies, Amsterdam 1970-1976
  • Graeca et Romanica: Scripta Selecta, 3 vols, Amsterdam 1979, 1981, 1986

( Without naming of Renée Kahane )

  • ( Ed.) ( together with Angelina Pietrangeli ), Descriptive Studies in Spanish Grammar, Urbana 1954
  • ( Ed.) ( together with Angelina Pietrangeli ), Structural Studies on Spanish Themes, Salamanca, 1959 ( also: Urbana 1959)
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