Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

Wilhelm Meyer- Lübke ( born January 30, 1861 in Dübendorf, † October 4, 1936 in Bonn) was a Swiss linguist and philologist.

Life and work

Wilhelm Meyer- Lübke, a nephew of the poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, studied in Zurich ( with Heinrich Schweizer- Sidler ) and Berlin (with John Smith ), mainly Indo-European studies, then received his doctorate but Romanized table in Zurich over the destinies of the Latin neuter the Romanesque (Hall aS 1883). After a sojourn in Italy, he habilitated in 1884 also in Zurich and then in Paris heard lectures by Gaston Paris. The Zurich Privatdozent in 1887 received a reputation as an associate professor of comparative linguistics to Jena. From there he was appointed in 1890 to Vienna, where he from 1892 to 1915 as professor of Romance philology was most popular, also dean and rector was. He then took a call to Bonn on the famous chair of Friedrich Diez, but soon felt painfully the difference between the metropolis of Vienna, where he also stood socially brilliant, and the city of Bonn ( whose population in 1934, the 100,000 limit exceeded ). He consoled himself with lecture tours and visiting professorships abroad. Meyer- Lübke was the leading linguist of his time.

Other works

  • Grammar of the Romance languages ​​, 4 vols, Leipzig 1890-1902 (reprint Darmstadt 1972)
  • Italian Grammar, Leipzig 1890
  • Simon Porcius ( Simone Porzio ): Grammatica linguae Graecae vulgaris. Reproduction de l' édition de 1638 suivie d'un commentaire grammatical et historique par Wilhelm Meyer avec une introduction de Jean Psichari. E. Bouillon et E. Vieweg, Paris 1889.
  • Introduction to the study of the Romance languages ​​, 1901, 3rd edition 1920
  • Historical Grammar of the French Language, 2 vols, 1909, 1921
  • Romanesque etymological dictionary, 1911, 6th edition Heidelberg 1992
  • Catalan, Heidelberg 1925

Obituaries

  • Ernst Gamillscheg in: Journal of French Language and Literature 60, 1937, pp. 385-406
  • Jakob Jud in: Vox Romanica 2, 1937, pp. 336-344
  • Alwin Kuhn in: Journal of Romance Philology 57, 1937, pp. 778-784
  • Elise Richter in: Archives for the study of modern languages ​​170, 1936, pp. 197-210
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