Wilhelm Braune
Theodor Wilhelm Braune (February 20, 1850, in Großthiemig, Brandenburg – November 10, 1926, in Heidelberg) was a German philologist and Germanist.
Biography
In 1869 Braune entered the University of Leipzig, where he was approved as an instructor in 1874. In 1877 he was appointed as extraordinary professor at the University of Giessen and became an ordinary professor of German language and literature there in 1880. He later served as a professor at the University of Heidelberg.[1] He is an important representative of the Neogrammarians.
Among his most lasting achievements were his works on the history of the Germanic languages. Editions of his grammars and anthologies of Old High German and Gothic are still in use today. In 1873 he also founded, together with Hermann Paul, the Germanic studies journal Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur often referred to among scholars as Paul und Braunes Beiträge (or PBB) and which remains one of the leading journals in Germanic philology to this day.
He was the recipient of a Festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday, entitled Aufsätze zur Sprach- und Literaturgeschichte. Wilhelm Braune zum 20. Februar 1920 dargebracht von Freunden und Schülern (Dortmund: Ruhfus, 1920).
Publications
- Althochdeutsches Lesebuch (“Old high German reader”), compiled and provided with a dictionary by Wilhelm Braune (Halle: Niemeyer, 1875; 17th ed. by Ernst Ebbinghaus, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994).
- Althochdeutsche Grammatik. Laut- und Formenlehre, von Wilhelm Braune. Halle: Niemeyer, 1886. 15th ed. by Ingo Reiffenstein. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004.
- Gotische Grammatik mit Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnis von Wilhelm Braune. Halle: Niemeyer, 1880. 18th ed. by Ernst Ebbinghaus. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1973.
Notes
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Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Braune, Theodor Wilhelm". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
References
- This article contains a translation of the corresponding article in German Wikipedia.
External links
- Works by or about Wilhelm Braune at Internet Archive
- The archive containing the first 100 volumes (1873-1979) of Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB) can be accessed at http://www.digizeitschriften.de.