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Eduard Sievers
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| Born | 25 November 1850 Lippoldsberg, Germany
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| Died | 30 March 1932 (aged 81) Leipzig, Germany
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| Nationality | German |
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Eduard Sievers (German: [ˈeːduaʁt ˈziːvɐs]; 25 November 1850, Lippoldsberg – 30 March 1932, Leipzig) was a philologist of the classical and Germanic languages. Sievers was one of the Junggrammatiker of the so-called "Leipzig School". He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the late nineteenth century. He is known for his recovery of the poetic traditions of Germanic languages such as Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon, as well as for his discovery of Sievers' law.
Biography
He was educated at Leipzig and Berlin, and became professor extraordinarius of Germanic and Romance philology at Jena in 1871, receiving a full professorship there five years later. In 1883 he went to Tübingen, and in 1887 to Halle, whence he was called in 1892 to Leipzig.
Works
Original
- An Old English Grammar, translated and edited by Albert S. Cook (1885)
- Der Heliand und die angelsächsische Genesis ("Heliand and the Anglo-Saxon version of Genesis, "1875)
- Angelsächsische Grammatik ("Anglo-Saxon grammar," 3d ed. 1898)
- Zum angelsächsischen Vokalismus ("Anglo-Saxon vowels," 1900)
- Altgermanische Metrik, Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken germanischer Dialekte. Ergänzungsreihe. 2 (Halle: Niemeyer, 1893)
- Metrische Studien, dealing with Hebrew metres ("Metrical studies," 1901–02)
- Grundzüge der Phonetik, once a standard work on phonetics ("Foundations of phonetics," 5th ed. 1901)
Editor
- Tatian (2d ed. 1892)
- Heliand (1878)
- Die althochdeutschen Glossen, with Elias von Steinmeyer ("Old high-German glosses," 4 vols., 1879–98)
- Oxforder Benediktinerregel ("Oxford Benedictine regulations," 1887)
In 1891 he became an editor of Paul and Braune's Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur ("Contributions to the history of the German language and its literature"), and contributed sections on runes, Gothic language and literature, and Germanic metre to Paul's Grundriss der germanischen Philologie ("Outline of Germanic philology," Strassburg, 1891 et seq.).
See also
- Sievers' Theory of Anglo-Saxon Meter
- Sievers' law
- Hermann Paul
