Erich Berneker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German linguist, slavist and baltologist
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Place of Birth: Königsberg
About Erich Berneker
- Erich Berneker (3 February 1874 – 15 March 1937) was a German linguist, Slavicist and Balticist, follower of the Neogrammarian school.He was born in Königsberg.
- He studied in Leipzig under August Leskien, receiving a doctorate in 1895 with a thesis on Old Prussian language, covering its texts, grammar and an etymological dictionary.
- Afterwards he went to Russia for a one-year study period.
- He habilitated in 1899 with a paper on word order in Slavic languages (Berlin, 1900).
- He worked as a private assistant professor in Berlin from 1902, as an associate professor in Prague, as a full professor since 1908 in Wroclaw (German Breslau), and since 1911 in Munich.He is best known as the author of a Slavic etymological dictionary (letters A-Mor, 1908-1913).
- In it he collected the inherited Slavic vocabulary, put it into the context of the Indo-European language family, and discussed the most important loanwords in Slavic languages.
- Although incomplete, this dictionary was of essential influence on the future work in the Slavic etymological studies.He died in Munich.
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