Portraits of linguists. Volume 1 : a biographical source book for the history of western linguistics, 1746-1963 / edited by Thomas A. Sebeok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sebeok, Thomas A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguists--Biography.

Linguists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (599 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Thoemmes Press, 1966.

Summary:

Portrait of Linguists is the standard biographical work in the history and theory of linguistics and a resource for all scholars of 18th, 19th and early 20th-century Western linguistics. Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, this text contains articles by eminent scholars in English, French and German. Ninety-one biographies are featured, including Wilhelm von Humboldt, Jacob Grimm, Franz Bopp, Sir William Jones and Max Muller. They constitute a mass of information on the leading figures in linguistics, and include bibliographical information in addition to revealing the authors' thoughts on the various schools of linguistics. Arranged chronologically by subjects' year of birth, this two-volume work is also indexed at the end of volume 2 and is a valuable storehouse of information on the seminal figures in the mainstream of Western linguistics.

Contents:

Cover

Portrait of Linguists: Volume 1

Contents

Editor's Introduction

Sir William Jones (1746-1794)

'Sir William Jones'

'Sir William Jones's Persian Linguistics'

Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751-1830)

'Sámuel Gyarmathi, Hungarian Pioneer of Comparative Linguistics'

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)

'Humboldt'

'Wilhelm von Humboldt'

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

'Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm'

'Jacob Grimm'

Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787-1832)

'Commentaires sur la vie et Fceuvre de Rasmus Rask'

'Rasmus Rask'

Franz Bopp (1791-1867)

'Franz Bopp'

'Bopp'

'The Background to the Linguistic Conceptions of Franz Bopp'

August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887)

'Pott'

Otto Böhtlingk (1815-1904)

'Otto Böhtlingk'

Anton Reguly (1819-1855)

'Anton Reguly's Gedächtnis'

Georg Curtius (1820-1885)

'Georg Curtius'

August Schleicher (1821-1868)

'Schleicher'

Max Müller (1823-1900)

'Max Müller'

William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894)

'William Dwight Whitney'

'Memorial Address'

Michel Bréal (1832-1915)

'Michel Bréal et la grammaire comparee au Collège de France'

August Pick (1833-1916)

'August Pick'

August Leskien (1840-1916)

'August Leskien'

Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886)

'Gedächtnissrede auf Wilhelm Scherer'

Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922)

'Berthold Delbrück'

Vilhelm Thomsen (1842-1927)

'Vilhelm Thomsen'

Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927)

'Hugo Schuchardt'

Henry Sweet (1845-1912)

'Henry Sweet'

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929)

'Jan Baudouin de Courtenay'

Karl Verner (1846-1896)

'Karl Verner-Some Personal Recollections'

Hermann Paul (1846-1921)

'Hermann Paul'

Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909)

'Hermann Osthoff'

Carl Stumpf (1848-1936)

'Carl Stumpf, sein Leben und Wirken'

Karl Brugmann (1849-1919).

'Karl Brugmann'

Portrait of Linguists: Volume 2

Eduard Sievers (1850-1932)

'Eduard Sievers'

Jacob Wackernagel (1852-1938)

'Jacob Wackernagel'

Adolf Noreen (1854-1925)

'Plan and Publication of Noreen's Vårt Språk'

Jules Gilliéron (1854-1926)

'Jules Gilliéron'

Hermann Collitz (1855-1935)

'Hermann Collitz-In Memoriam'

Josef Zubatý (1856-1931)

'Die Persönlichkeit Josef Zubatýs'

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)

'Notice'

'Ferdinand de Saussure'

Carl Meinhof (1857-1944)

'The Growth of Comparative Bantu Philology'

'In Memory of Carl Meinhof'

Franz Boas (1858-1942)

'Franz Boas as a Linguist'

'Franz Boas'Approach to Language'

Paul Passy (1859-1940)

'Paul Passy'

Otto Jespersen (1860-1943)

'Otto Jespersen'

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861-1936)

'Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke'

Wilhelm Streitberg (1864-1925)

'Wilhelm Streitberg'

Charles Bally (1865-1947)

'L'œuvre linguistique de Charles Bally'

Antoine Meillet (1866-1936)

'Antoine Meillet'

'Antoine Meillet, the Scholar and the Man

Maurice Grammont (1866-1946)

'Maurice Grammont'

Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (1866-1951)

'In Memoriam Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (18th October 1866-12th August 1951)'

Carl Darling Buck (1866-1955)

'Carl Darling Buck'

Franz Nikolaus Finck (1867-1910)

'Nachruf auf Franz Nikolaus Finck'

Holger Pedersen (1867-1953)

'In Memoriam Holger Pedersen: 1867-1953'

P. Wilhelm Schmidt (1868-1954)

'P. W. Schmidt als Linguist'

Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946)

'Albert Sechehaye'

Karl Vossler (1872-1949)

'Karl Vossler'

Kristian Sandfeld (1873-1942)

'Kr. Sandfeld'

Matteo Bàrtoli (1873-1946)

'Matteo Bàrtoli'

Kazimierz Nitsch (1874-1958)

'Kazimierz Nitsch'

Edgar Howard Sturtevant (1875-1952).

'Edgar Howard Sturtevant (1875-1952)'

'Edgar Howard Sturtevant'

Joseph Vendryes (1875-1960)

'Joseph Vendryes (1875-1960)'

Aleksandar Beli&amp

#263

(1876-1960)'

'Aleksandar Beli&amp

'

Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960)

'Alfred Louis Kroeber'

Zolt&amp

#225

n Gombocz (1877-1935)

'Zolt&amp

n von Gombocz'

Jacques van Ginneken (1877-1945)

'In Memoriam Jacques van Ginneken'

Karl Jaberg (1877-1959)

'Karl Jaberg'

Nicolas van Wijk (1880-1941)

'Nicolas van Wijk (1880-1941)'

Max Leopold Wagner (1880-1962)

'Max Leopold Wagner'

Vilém Mathesius (1882-1946)

'Vilém Mathesius'

Edward Sapir (1884-1939)

'Edward Sapir'

Serge Karcevski (1884-1955)

'Serge Karcevski'

Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963)

'Franklin Edgerton'

Viggo Brøndal (1887-1942)

'Viggo Brøndal'

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)

'Leonard Bloomfield'

Leo Spitzer (1887-1960)

'Leo Spitzer'

Nikolaj Sergejevi&amp

#269

Trubetzkoy (1890-1938)

'Nikolaj Sergejevi&amp

Trubetzkoy'

John Rupert Firth (1890-1960)

'John Rupert Firth'

Gyula Laziczius (1896-1957)

'Gyula Laziczius'

Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)

'Benjamin Lee Whorf'

Index

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K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

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T

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Y

Z.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 7, 2016).

ISBN:

9781441158741

144115874X

OCLC:

952247658