Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 – August 12, 1885) was a German philologist and distinguished comparativist.[1]
Georg Curtius | |
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| Born | April 16, 1820 |
| Died | August 12, 1885 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | German |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philology |
Biography
editCurtius was born in Lübeck, and was the brother of the historian and archeologist Ernst Curtius.[2] After an education at Bonn and Berlin, he was for three years schoolmaster in Dresden, until (in 1845) he returned to Berlin University as a privatdocent.[3] In 1849 he was placed in charge of the Philological Seminary at Prague, and two years later was appointed professor of classical philology in Prague University. In 1854, he moved from Prague to a similar appointment at Kiel, and again in 1862 from Kiel to Leipzig.[4] He was teaching lndo-European and the historical grammar of the classical languages at Leipzig.[5] His contributions were focused "to bridge the gulf between classical philology and Aryan linguistics."[6] As a professor he constantly attempted " to bring Classical Philology and the Science of Language into closer relation with each other." This is clearly reflected in the works of his pupils, and of his own.[3]
His philological theories exercised a widespread influence. The more important of his publications are:
- Die Sprachvergleichung in ihrem Verhältniss zur classischen Philologie (1845; Eng. trans. by FH Trithen, 1851)
- Sprachvergleichende Beiträge zur griechischen und lateinischen Grammatik (1846)
- Grundzüge der griechischen Etymologie (1858–1862, 5th ed. 1879)
- Das Verbum der griechischen Sprache (1873).
The last two works were translated into English by Augustus Samuel Wilkins and Edwin Bourdieu England.[4]
From 1878 until his death Curtius was general editor of the Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie. His Griechische Schulgrammatik, first published in 1852, passed through more than twenty editions and was edited in English. In his last work, Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (1885), he attacked the views of the emerging Neogrammarian school of philology.[4][1]
Curtius died in Hermsdorf am Kynast, aged 65, and was succeeded at Leipzig by his student[7]Karl Brugmann. The Opuscula of Georg Curtius were edited after his death by Ernst Windisch (Kleine Schriften von E. C., 1886–1887).[4] He was posthumously elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1886.[8]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Eckardt, Georg (6 Feb 2013). Contributions to a History of Developmental Psychology: International William T. Preyer Symposium. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 288. ISBN 978-3-110-85489-3. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Thomson de Grummond, Nancy (11 May 2015). Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Oxon: Routledge. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-134-26854-2. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ a b Edwin Sandys, John (17 Feb 2011). A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany and the Nineteenth Century in Europe and the United States of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-108-02708-3. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Morpurgo Davies, Anna (2 Dec 2004). The Cambridge Companion to Saussure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-521-80486-8. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (28 Sep 2020). Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin. Alexandria: Library of Alexandria. p. NA. ISBN 978-1-465-61627-2. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Gagarin, Michael (31 December 2009). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-195-17072-6. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
References
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Curtius, Ernst s.v. Georg Curtius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 653. This work in turn cites:
- Richard Meister (1903), "Curtius, Georg", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 47, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 597–602
- Ernst Windisch in Conrad Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde (1886)
External links
edit- Works by or about Georg Curtius at the Internet Archive
- Works by Georg Curtius at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
