Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (Swiss Standard German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmaɪər ˈlʏpkɛ]; 30 January 1861 – 4 October 1936) was a Swiss philologist of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics.

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke en 1906.
Born	30 January 1861  Dübendorf
Died	4 October 1936  (aged 75) Bonn
Employer	University of Bonn University of Jena University of Vienna University of Zurich
Awards	Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (1928)

Biography

Meyer-Lübke, a nephew of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer,^[1] was born in Dübendorf, Switzerland. He studied Indo-European philology at Zürich (with Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler) and at Berlin (with Johannes Schmidt). He obtained his PhD in Romance philology with a dissertation on Die Schicksale des lateinischen Neutrums im Romanischen (1883). After a stay in Italy, he qualified to lecture at Zürich and then attended lectures by Gaston Paris in Paris.^[2][3]

While lecturing at Zürich in 1887, he was appointed associate professor of comparative linguistics at Jena. From there he was called in 1890 to Vienna, where he was from 1892 to 1915 professor of Romance philology, as well as serving as dean and rector (1906/07). He then went to Bonn, where he was appointed to the professorship formerly held by Friedrich Diez (1794–1876).^[3] However, Meyer-Lübke soon felt the difference between the cosmopolitan Vienna and provincial Bonn. He consoled himself with lecture tours and visiting professorships abroad. Meyer-Lübke was a leading Romance linguist of his time.^[4]

Key published works

• Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen ("Grammar of the Romance Languages") published in 4 volumes between 1890 and 1902.^[5]
• Einführung in das Studium der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft ("Introduction to the Study of Romance Linguistics"), 1901.^[6]
• Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch ("Etymological Dictionary of Romance"), Heidelberg, C. Winter, 1911.^[7][8]

Notes

1. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950
2. Alwin Kuhn. Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (30.1.1861 – 4.10.1936), Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 57.778–784 (1937).
3. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2, S. 303 f.
4. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
5. Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1890), Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen, Leipzig Reisland, retrieved 20 August 2017
6. Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1901), Einführung in das Studium der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft, Heidelberg Winter, retrieved 20 August 2017
7. Romanisches etymologisches wörterbuch HathiTrust Digital Library
8. Meyer-Lübke, W. (Wilhelm) (1911), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, C. Winter, retrieved 20 August 2017

External links

• Works by or about Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke at the Internet Archive
• Works by or about Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke at Wikisource