Georg Curtius

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Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 – August 12, 1885) was a German philologist and distinguished comparativist.[1]

Biography

Curtius 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.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He was teaching lndo-European and the historical grammar of the classical languages at Leipzig.[4] His contributions were focused "to bridge the gulf between classical philology and Aryan linguistics."[5] 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).

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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.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[1]

Curtius died in Hermsdorf am Kynast, aged 65, and was succeeded at Leipzig by his student[6]Karl Brugmann. The Opuscula of Georg Curtius were edited after his death by Ernst Windisch (Kleine Schriften von E. C., 1886–1887).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He was posthumously elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1886.[7]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.

References

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