Johann Andreas Schmeller
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Johann Andreas Schmeller (6 August 1785 in Tirschenreuth – 27 September 1852 in Munich) was a German philologist who initially studied the Bavarian dialect. From 1828 until his death he taught in the University of Munich.[1] He is considered the founder of modern dialect research in Germany. His lasting contribution is the four-volume Template:Interlanguage link multi (Bavarian Dictionary),[2] which is currently in the process of revision by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Biography
In 1821, he published Script error: No such module "Lang". (Bavarian dialects). This was later supplemented by his Script error: No such module "Lang". (Bavarian dictionary), which appeared in four volumes from 1827 to 1837. Perhaps his most notable publication was the first modern edition of the Heliand (1830).[3]
He was also the compiler of the Carmina Burana (1847), which he named. Schmeller edited the Old High German Evangelienharmonie (1841);[4] the Muspilli (1832);[5] Lateinische Gedichte des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts (1836); and Hadamar von Laber's Jagd (1850). His Cimbrisches Wörterbuch was edited by Joseph Bergmann in 1855.[1][6]
Schmeller invented the schwa symbol (ə) for use as the reduced vowel at the end of some German words, and first used it in his 1820s works on the Bavarian dialects.[7]
References
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- ↑ Heliand: oder die altsächsische Evangelien-harmonie Volumes 1-2 (1840) J. G. Cotta, Germany (Google eBook) (German)
- ↑ Muspilli Bruchstück einer althochdeutschen illiterierenden Dichtung vom Ende der Welt (1832) George Jaquet, Munich (Google eBook) (German)
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Further reading
- Johannes Nicklas, Schmellers Leben und Wirken (Munich, 1885)