![]() ![]() Mac Eoin, Gearóid and Hildegard Tristram.Keltischer Sprengstoff: eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Studie über die deutsche Keltologie von 19. ![]() Berlin: Berliner Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 1999. Die Deutsche Keltologie und ihre Berliner Gelehrten bis 1945. The Correspondence of Myles Dillon, 1922-1925: Irish-German Relations and Celtic Studies. Other famous Celtologists include the Swiss scholar Rudolf Thurneysen (1857–1940), who studied under Windisch und Zimmer, and Julius Pokorny, who was appointed to the chair of Celtic Philology in Berlin in 1920 but suspended by the Nazis in the mid-1930s because of his Jewish ancestry. Meyer, Windisch and Zimmer contributed in no small way to the standardisation of the Irish in which Blasket Island authors, particularly Muiris Ó Suilleabháin, Tomás Ó Criomhthain and Peig Sayers, wrote the books that have become classics of Irish literature. Meyer had studied in Leipzig under Windisch from 1879 in 1896 he and Ludwig Christian Stern started the journal Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie a few years later he founded the School of Irish Learning in Dublin and its journal Ériu. Zimmer was succeeded in 1911 by Kuno Meyer, probably the most famous of the German Celtologists. Heinrich Zimmer was the first to hold the professorship, and Berlin began to attract Celtologists from all over Germany, and indeed from Ireland. But it was not until 1901 that the first chair of Celtic Philology was created in Germany, at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin (now the Humboldt University). Also in the second half of the nineteenth century, Ernst Windisch carried out important research in Celtic studies at Leipzig University. The year 1851 was a major milestone in the study of Celtic languages in Germany: it marked the publication – in Latin – of the first volume of Johann Kaspar Zeuss’s Grammatica Celtica. Nowadays, the subject is taught only at a small number of German universities. German philologists played a significant role in the development of Celtic Studies, or Celtology. The German contribution to Celtology | Photo (Detail): Kuno Meyer ![]()
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