Rudolf Thurneysen

Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen (March 14 1857–9 August 1940) was a Swiss linguist and Celticist.

Born in Basel, Thurneysen studies classical philology in Basel, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris. He received his promotion (approximating to a doctorate) in 1879, and his habilitation, in Latin and Celtic languages, followed at the University of Jena in 1882.

From 1885 to 1887 he taught Latin at Jena, then moving to the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau where he replaced Karl Brugmann, a renowned expert in Indo-European linguistics.

In 1909 Thurneysen published his "Handbuch des Alt-Irischen", translated into English as "A Grammar of Old Irish" by D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, and still in print as of 2006. In 1913 he moved to Bonn University. It is in this period that Thurneysen has been called the greatest living authority on Old Irish.

He retired in 1923 and died in Bonn in 1940. The "Rudolf Thurneysen Memorial Lecture" ( _de. Vortrag in Memoriam Rudolf Thurneysen), given at Bonn, is named in his honour.

elect bibliography

* "A grammar of Old Irish" (translated by D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, reprinted 2003. ISBN 1-85500-161-6
* "Old Irish reader" (translated by D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, reprinted 1981. ISBN 0-901282-32-4
* "Scéla mucce Meic Dathó", Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, reprinted 2004. ISBN 1-85500-022-9

External links

* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/thurn.html Works by Thurneysen online] at University College Cork's [http://www.ucc.ie/celt CELT project]
* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/thurnbib.html Select bibliography] at University College Cork's [http://www.ucc.ie/celt CELT project]
* [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/galeria/thurneys.htm TITUS-Galeria: Pictures of Rudolf Thurneysen]