Karl Brugmann

Karl ( Friedrich Christian ) Brugman ( s) ( born March 16, 1849 in Wiesbaden, Germany, † June 29, 1919 in Leipzig ) was a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist.

Life

From 1867 to 1871 Brugmann studied in Halle ( Saale) and Leipzig. The doctorate in 1871 in Leipzig, the state examination he put 1872 from ibid. There followed a period in the teaching profession in Wiesbaden and Leipzig. In 1877 he qualified as a professor in Leipzig. In 1882 he became an associate professor in Leipzig and in 1884 full professor in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1887 he followed a call to Leipzig, where he taught Indo-European Linguistics.

Brugmann represented the principle of Ausnahmslosigkeit of sound laws and is considered one of the most important neo-grammarians.

An important precursor of the Leipzig School and a teacher for many researchers of this school was the classical philologist Georg Curtius ( 1820-1885 ). As Curtius was appointed in 1861 to Leipzig, he made ​​it his goal to combine classical philology philology in the sense Bopp. As a researcher and personality, he was instrumental in that a number of ambitious young men chose Leipzig as a study, as well as Karl Brugmann, the Curtius from Halle to Leipzig followed.

These young men and with them the Slavist and Schleicher students Leskien August (1840 - 1916), who was appointed in 1870 to Leipzig, Leipzig as school or as Neogrammarians were known. They argued against the view expressed by Curtius and Pott distinction between regular versus irregular sound changes and took the Ausnahmslosigkeit the sound laws. The Neogrammarians made ​​Leipzig the international hub of Indo-European research.

Karl Brugmann was next Leskien the dominant personality in the circle of young grammarians. After studying in Leipzig, Brugmann worked a few years as a teacher ( in Wiesbaden and at the Nicolai School in Leipzig). He remained the Leipzig neogrammarians but connected and met with them in the coffee - tree to the weekly Kneip evening. Brugmann interrupted his teaching career in order to habilitation at the University of Leipzig in 1877. His first professorship he went to Freiburg, where he was appointed to the chair of comparative linguistics. He was there the first owner and was only three years.

Then Brugmann could accept a professorship at the University of Leipzig, where he worked for 32 years extraordinarily productive.

Awards

Major works

• Outline of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages ​​(5 vols ).
• The syntax of the simple rate in the Indo-European (1925 ).
• Together with Hermann Osthoff: Morphological studies in the field of Indo-European languages ​​(6 vols ).
• Together with Wilhelm Streit Berg founder of the journal Indo-European research.