Hermann Paul

Hermann Otto Theodor Paul ( born August 7, 1846 in Salbke, † December 29, 1921 in Munich) was a German germanistischer medievalist, linguist and lexicographer. Paul is a member of the neo-grammarians.

Life

Hermann Paul was born the son of a master mason and Kossethen ( = material goods dealer) in today eingemeindeten to Magdeburg village Salbke. After visiting the village school in Salbke he moved in 1859 to the Pädagogium the Monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg. Private lessons he took with Franz Heyne. There he laid in 1866 from a high school.

Initially mathematically interested, he enrolled in the winter semester 1866 at the University of Berlin in philology at Heymann stone valley a. In the summer semester 1867 he moved to Leipzig, where he 1870 Friedrich Zarncke with the dissertation "On the original arrangement of Freidank modesty " doctorate. In October 1872, he then qualified as a professor with the scripture " For a critique and explanation of Gottfried's Tristan ." In 1874 he was offered a professorship at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau as an associate professor of German language and literature. In March 1877 he was appointed full professor. In 1888 he declined a call to Giessen.

In 1892 he was appointed foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the following year he became a full member of the learned societies.

In 1893 he accepted the appointment of a full professorship for German Philology at the University of Munich as successor to Matthias Lexer, 1909 where he became the rector of the university. 1905 Paul married 59 years. Since 1864, he suffered from an eye disease, which for almost total blindness later led, so he was released in 1916 from the obligation to lecture, and was instructed in the further work on helpers.

Scientific performance

As one of the founders and exponents of the " neogrammarian " school Paul became one of the most significant research personalities in the history of German linguistics. Him as the taxonomist of neogrammarian school we owe many important initiatives and insights particularly for semantics, lexicography and Sprachhistoriographie. Already in 1873, a year after his habilitation, he gave along with William Brown, the first issue of his to this day under the initials PBB (Paul and Brown posts ) guided contributions to the history of the German language and literature out, then still based in Halle / Saale Max Niemeyer Verlag. By nature he edited medievalist Middle High German texts, including works of Hartmann von Aue and the poems of Walther von der Vogelweide. In 1881 he wrote the much- used Middle High German grammar and began publication of Middle High German texts in the old German text library, as its founder, he is. In the eighties of the 19th century, Paul turned increasingly to the present-day language, and led the writing of history as a lexicographer and language theorists of language change to the language of his time to approach. He designed a systematic theory of meaning of the German language by his two major works principles of language history and the lexicographic work on the German dictionary and shaped the development of linguistics of his time with decisively. By coupling with the science of history, he made the linguistics a useful tool of cultural research. His linguistics has a strong empirical component. Even as a high school teacher Hermann Paul has made Major. As Rector of the University of Munich he was dedicated, the proportion of seminars and exercises - as in medicine and the natural sciences - in the humanities courses to increase in order to promote the self-activity of the students.

The principles of historical linguistics are Hermann Paul's magnum opus. They served generations of linguists as a canonical book of linguistics. They are, as well as several other books of Paul, have become a standard work in particular of Germanic Linguistics and carry hand book character. You always experience new editions and revisions, are translated and highly respected in many languages.

The German dictionary aims neither to be complete nor to scientific distinction, but to use requirements, even for the school. It collects variations in dialect - regional and special linguistic nature to provide just not generally familiar available.

Works

  • Was there a Middle High German written language? Hall, 1873
  • The vowels of flexion and derivative syllables in the oldest Germanic dialects. In: Contributions to the History of the German Language and Literature 4, pp. 314-475, 1877
  • History of the Germanic Vocalismus. Hall 1879
  • Contributions to the history of sound development and form association. 1879-1882
  • Principles of historical linguistics. 1880 Tübingen, Niemeyer, date: 10th edition 1995, ISBN 3-484-22005-8
  • Middle High German grammar. 1881 to date: 25th edition 2007, ISBN 3-484-64035-9
  • Contributions to the history of sound development and Formenassociation. II: vocal strain and vocal reduction in NHG. In: Contributions to the History of the German Language and Literature 9, pp. 101-134, 1884
  • Outline of Germanic Philology. Publisher, Strasbourg, Volume 1, 1891; Volume 2, 1893
  • As to the tasks of scientific lexicography with special reference to the German dictionary. In: Proceedings of the philos - Philol. Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Issue 1 1894, pp. 53-91.
  • To word formation. Dictionary, 1896
  • German Dictionary. Niemeyer, Halle, 1897 ( digitized ); last in 10th edition 2002, ISBN 3-484-73057-9
  • About the definition of the Perfektums the Germans, have 'and' be '. Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Vol I. Kl 22 ( Abh 1), 1902, see also http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2007/9018/
  • The importance of German philology for the life of the present. ( Speech at the commencement of the Rectorate of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University, held on 11 December 1909) in: Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, No. 258 of 15 November 1909 Munich
  • German grammar. 5 volumes, Halle, 1916-1920
  • About task and method of historical science. Berlin and Leipzig 1920
  • About language teaching. Hall 1921
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