WILHELM See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL See also:

• WILHELM PAUL CORSSEN (1820–1875)

CORSSEN (1820–1875)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BREMEN

Bremen on the loth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 182o, and received his school See also:

• EDUCATION

education in the Prussian See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• SCHWEDT

Schwedt, to which his See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant, had removed . After spending some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, where his See also:

• INTEREST

interest in philological pursuits was awakened by the See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector, Meinike, he proceeded to the university, and there came especially under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• BOCKH, PHILIPP AUGUST (1785-1867)

Bockh and See also:

• LACHMANN, KARL KONRAD FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1793-1851)

Lachmann . His first important See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance in literature was as the author of Origines poesis romanae, by which he had obtained the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize offered by the " philosophical " or " arts " See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of the university . In 1846 he was called from See also:

• STETTIN

Stettin, where he had for nearly two years held a See also:

• POST

post in the gymnasium, to occupy the position of lecturer in the royal See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy at See also:

• PFORTA, or SCHULPFORTA

Pforta (commonly called Schulpforta), and there he continued to labour for the next twenty years . In 1854 he won a prize offered by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences for the best See also:

• WORK

work on the pronuncia tion and See also:

• ACCENT

accent of Latin, a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise which at once took See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank, on its publication under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Uber Ausspraclie, Vocalismus, and Betonung der lateinischen Sprache (1858—1859), as one of the most erudite and masterly See also:

• WORKS

works in its See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department . This was followed in 1863 by his Kritische Beitrdge zur See also:

• LAT

lat . Formenlehre, which were supplemented in 1866 by Kritische Nachtraige zur lat . Formenlehre . In the discussion of the See also:

• PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation of Latin he was naturally led to consider the various old See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian' dialects, and the results of his investigations appeared in See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous communications to See also:

• KUHN, FRANZ FELIX ADALBERT (1812–1881)

Kuhn's Zeitschrift See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur vergleichende Schriftforschung . See also:

• ILL

Ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health obliged him to give up his See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor-See also:

• SHIP

ship at Pforta, and return to Berlin, in 1866; but it produced almost no diminution of his See also:

• LITERARY

literary activity . In 1867 he published an elaborate archaeological study entitled the Alterthhmer and Kunstdenkmale See also:

• DES

des Cistercienserklosters St Marien and der Landesschule Pforta, in which he gathers together all that can be discovered about the See also:

• HISTORY

history of the Pforta academy, the German " See also:

• ETON

Eton," and in 1868—1869 he brought out a new edition of his work on Latin pronunciation . From a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he had been attracted to the See also:

• SPECIAL

special study of See also:

• ETRUSCAN

Etruscan remains, and had at various times given occasional expression to his opinions on individual points; but it was not till 187o that he had the opportunity of visiting See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and completing his equipment for a formal treatment of the whole subject by See also:

• PERSONAL

personal inspection of the monuments .

In 1874 appeared the first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Sprache der Etrusker, in which with See also:

• GREAT

great ingenuity and erudition he endeavoured to prove that the Etruscan See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language was cognate with that of the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans . Before the second volume (published posthumously under the editorship of Kuhn) had received the last touches of his See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, he was cut off in 1875 by a comparatively early See also:

• DEATH

death .