Rudolf Thurneysen

Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen(March 14, 1857 – 9 August 1940) was aSwiss linguistandCelticist.

Biography

Born inBasel,Thurneysen studied classicalphilologyin Basel,Leipzig,BerlinandParis.His teachers includedErnst WindischandHeinrich Zimmer.^[1]He received hispromotion(approximating to a doctorate) in 1879 and hishabilitation,inLatinand theCeltic languages,followed at theUniversity of Jenain 1882.

From 1885 to 1887 he taught Latin at Jena, then taking up the Chair of Comparative Philology at theUniversity of Freiburg^[1]where he replacedKarl Brugmann,a renowned expert inIndo-European studies.

In 1896, he positedThurneysen's law,a proposed sound law concerning the alternation of voiced and voiceless fricatives in certain affixes inGothic;it was later published in 1898.^[2]

In 1909 Thurneysen published hisHandbuch des Alt-Irischen,translated intoEnglishasA Grammar of Old IrishbyD. A. BinchyandOsborn Bergin,and still in print as of 2006.^[1]A version inWelshwas produced byMelville Richardsand published by Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales Press) in 1935 under the titleLlawlyfr Hen Wyddeleg.^[3]In 1913 he moved to theUniversity of Bonn.It is in this period that Thurneysen has been called the greatest living authority onOld Irish.

He retired in 1923 and died inBonnin 1940. TheRudolf Thurneysen Memorial Lecture(German:Vortrag in Memoriam Rudolf Thurneysen), given at Bonn, is named in his honour.

Select bibliography

Über Herkunft und Bildung der lateinischen Verba auf -io der dritten und vierten Conjugation und über ihr gegenseitiges Verhältniß.Leipzig 1879.
Keltoromanisches, die keltischen Etymologieen im etymologischen Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen von F. Diez.Halle 1884.
Der Saturnier und sein Verhältniss zum späteren römischen Volksverse.Halle 1885.
Der Weg vom dactylischen Hexameter zum epischen Zehnsilber der Franzosen.1887.
Das Verbumêtreund die französische Conjugation: Ein Bruchstück aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte der französischen Flexion.Halle 1892.
Sagen aus dem alten Irland.Berlin 1901.
Die Etymologie: Eine akademische Rede.Freiburg 1905.
Handbuch des Alt-Irischen: Grammatik, Texte und Wörterbuch,vol. 1:Grammatik;vol. 2:Texte mit Wörterbuch.Heidelberg 1909.
- A Grammar of Old Irish.Revised and enlarged, with supplement. Translated by D. A. Binchy & Osborn Bergin. Dublin: School of Celtic Studies,Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,1975 (1st edn. 1946; reprint 2003).ISBN 1-85500-161-6
- Old Irish Reader.Translated by D. A. Binchy & Osborn Bergin. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1949 (reprints 1975, 1981).ISBN 0-901282-32-4
Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert.Halle 1921.
Scéla mucce Meic Dathó.Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1986 (reprint 2004).ISBN 1-85500-022-9

References

^^a ^b ^c"CELT: Rudolf Thurneysen".
^"The Origin of Thurneysen's Law: A detailed analysis of the evidence"(PDF).
^Richards, M.R. (1935). Llawlyfr Hen Wyddeleg. Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru/ Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

External links

[ucc.ie-1] "CELT: Rudolf Thurneysen".

[2] "The Origin of Thurneysen's Law: A detailed analysis of the evidence"(PDF).

[3] Richards, M.R. (1935). Llawlyfr Hen Wyddeleg. Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru/ Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

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