Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler

August Scheler ( born April 6, 1819 in Ebnat SG, † 1890) was a Swiss linguist.

Scheler studied at the universities of Erlangen, Bonn and Munich. At twenty, he settled as a private in Brussels. There was promoted Scheler in 1853 to the royal librarian, but that was more an honor than a working title.

1876 ​​appointed to Scheler as professor of general language teaching at the University ( Brussels) and in 1884 took him by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium as a full member on. Besides his work as a lecturer Scheler was a big concern the publication of numerous Old French and altprovençalischer works. Inter alia he led the " etymological dictionary of the Romance languages ​​" by Friedrich Christian Diez and the "Dictionnaire de la langue étymologique Walloon " by Charles Grandgagnage on.

At the age of about seventy years, Prof August 1890 Scheler died.

Works (selection)

  • Dictionnaire d' etymology française. Muquardt, Brussels 1888
  • Dictionnaire de la langue étymologique Walloon. Muquardt, Brussels 1880 ( founded by C. Grandgagnage )
  • Etymological Dictionary of the Romance languages ​​. Olms, Hildesheim, 1969 ( Repr ed d Bonn in 1887, founded by FC Diez )
  • Exposé des lois qui régissent la transformation française des mots latins. Muquardt, Brussels 1875
  • Glossaire érotique de la langue française. Edition de Paris, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-8462-1058-6 ( Repr ed d Brussels 1876)
  • Glossaire roman- latin du XV. siècle. Buschmann, Antwerp 1865
  • Trouvères belges you XIIe the XIV au siècle. Closson, Brussels 1876
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