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Johannes Schmidt (
July 29,
1843 –
July 4,
1901) was a
German linguist. He developed the
Wellentheorie ('
wave theory') of language development.
Johannes Schmidt was born in
Prenzlau (
Kingdom of Prussia). He studied
philology (
historical linguistics) with the great Indo-Europeanist
August Schleicher and specialized in
Indo-European, especially
Slavic, languages. He earned a doctorate in
1865 and worked from
1866 as a teacher at a
gymnasium in
Berlin.
In
1868 Schmidt was invited by the
University of Bonn to take a position as professor of
German and Slavic languages. In
Bonn he published the work
Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der indogermanischen Sprachen ('The Relationships of the Indo-Germanic Languages', 1872), which presented his
Wellentheorie ('wave theory'). According to this theory, new features of a language spread from a central point in continuously weakening concentric circles, similar to the waves created when a stone is thrown into a body of water. This should lead to convergence among dissimilar languages. The theory was directed against the doctrine of
sound laws introduced by the
Neogrammarians in
1870.
From
1873 to
1876 Schmidt was a professor of philology at the
University of Graz in
Austria. In 1876 he returned to Berlin, where he worked as a professor at
Humboldt University. He died in Berlin at the age of fifty-seven.
Bibliography
- Zur Geschichte des indogermanischen Vocalismus (Part I). Weimar, H. Böhlau (1871)
- Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der indogermanischen Sprachen. Weimar, H. Böhlau (1872)
- Zur Geschichte des indogermanischen Vocalismus (Part II). Weimar, H. Böhlau (1875)
- Die Pluralbildungen der indogermanischen Neutra. Weimar, H. Böhlau (1889)
- Kritik der Sonantentheorie. Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung. Weimar, H. Böhlau (1895)
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