Adalbert Bezzenberger
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Adalbert Bezzenberger (14 April 1851 – 31 October 1922) was a German philologist. He was born at Kassel and died at Königsberg. He is considered to be the founder of Baltic philology.[1]
He studied the Indo-Germanic languages at the universities of Göttingen and Munich. In 1874 he became lecturer at Göttingen and in 1879 professor of Sanskrit at the University of Königsberg. From 1890 to 1891 he was rector of this university.
Published works
[edit]His principal works include:
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der Litauischen Sprache auf Grund litauischer Texte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen: Peppmüller, 1877.
- Litauische Forschungen. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Sprache und des Volkstumes der Litauer, Göttingen: Peppmüller, 1882.
- Lettische Dialektstudien, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1885.
- Über der Sprache der Preußischen Letten, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888.
- Die Kurische Nehrung und ihre Bewohner, Stuttgart: Engelhorn, 1889 (=Forschungen zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde; vols. 3-4)
- Sitzungsbericht der Altertumsgeschichte Prussia (1892)
- Analysen vorgeschichtlicher Bronzen Ostpreussens. An ihrem 60jährigen Stiftungstage dem Andenken ihres ehemaligen Vorsitzenden Georg Bujak gewidmet von der Altertumsgesellschaft Prussia, Königsberg: Gräfe & Unzer, 1904. (as editor)
- Beiträge zur Kunde der Indogermanischen Sprachen (1877–1906; as editor)
Sources
[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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- ^ Bezzenberger, Adalbert In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, S. 213.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Adalbert Bezzenberger at the Internet Archive
- Works by or about Adalbert Bezzenberger at Wikisource
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- 1851 births
- 1922 deaths
- Balticists
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
- University of Göttingen alumni
- German philologists
- Linguists of Baltic languages
- Linguists of Indo-European languages
- Writers from Kassel
- People from the Electorate of Hesse
- Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
- German male writers
- Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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