Wilhelm Wackernagel Explained

Wilhelm Wackernagel (23 April 1806, Berlin – 21 December 1869, Basel) was a German-Swiss philologist specializing in Germanic studies. He was the father of Indo-Europeanist Jacob Wackernagel.

Wackernagel studied Classical and Germanic literature at the University of Berlin as a pupil of August Boeckh and Karl Lachmann. In 1833, he moved to Basel, where from 1835 to 1869, he was a professor of German language and literature at the university. While at Basel, he turned down offers for professorships in Berlin, Munich, Tübingen, and Vienna.[1] [2]

Works

He was considered the leading Germanist after the death of Jacob Grimm in 1863.[2] A number of Wackernagel's significant works were published posthumously. The following are some of his principal writings:

Notes and References

  1. http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Wackernagel,_Wilhelm_(Germanist) ADB:Wackernagel, Wilhelm (Germanist)
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=978Uzm8Je7QC&pg=PA105 A History of Poetics: German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics
  3. https://books.google.com/books/about/Gedichte_Walthers_von_der_Vogelweide.html?id=I2xOmgEACAAJ Google Books
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8260827 OCLC WorldCat
  5. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Wilhelm+Wackernagel%22&gws_rd=ssl Google Books