Christian Cornelius Uhlenbeck (in some Russian publications the first name is referred to as Christian ; Dutch. Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck ; September 18, 1866 , Worbürg , Netherlands - August 12, 1951 , Lugano ), Switzerland - Dutch linguist . He graduated from Leiden University ( 1888 ). He was a professor at Amsterdam ( 1892 - 1899 ) and Leiden ( 1899 - 1926 ) universities, in the first he occupied the department of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics, in the second - the department of German languages .
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| Date of Birth | September 18, 1866 |
| Place of Birth | Worbürg ( Netherlands ) |
| Date of death | August 12, 1951 (84 years old) |
| A place of death | Lugano ( Switzerland ) |
| A country | Netherlands |
| Scientific field | philology |
| Place of work | University of Amsterdam Leiden University |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Academic rank | Professor |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Works
- 4 Literature
Biography
Christian K. Uhlenbeck spent his childhood in Haarlem , where he studied in elementary school, and then in high school. In his youth, Uhlenbeck wrote poetry: even before graduating from high school in July 1885, he released a collection of romantic poems called "Thoughts and Dreams" ( Gedachten en droomen ). In the same year, he entered the University of Leiden. After brilliantly graduating from university, the young Christian Cornelius worked as a teacher at the Leeuwarden Gymnasium during 1888-1889. Later, he works at the University of Amsterdam. In 1890, Uhlenbeck, on behalf of the government, was sent to Russia to study archives that were important for Dutch history. He visited St. Petersburg, Derpt and Moscow, where he apparently learned the Russian language. In 1892, he was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he began to teach Sanskrit. In 1899, at the invitation of his longtime mentor, Christian K. Uhlenbeck came to work at the University of Leiden. In 1911, Dr. Uhlenbeck visited the Blackfoot tribe on the Indian Reservation in Montana. The peak of his activity as a scientist falls on the 1900s - 1920s. After 1926, Christian K. Uhlenbeck retired for health reasons. He moves to live in Switzerland, where he continues to be published, conducting scientific activities. Christian Cornelius Uhlenbeck died in Switzerland, in the city of Lugano, on August 12, 1951.
Scientific activity
Christian Cornelius Uhlenbeck studied the Baltic-Slavic languages , the genetic relations of the Basque language , as well as the classification of the Eskimo-Aleutian languages and the languages of the Indians of North America (in particular, the Siksik language). In the field of Indo-European studies, compiled Old Indian and Gothic etymological dictionaries. He put forward a hypothesis about the "crossed" nature of the grammatical structure of Indo-European languages. He was engaged in a typological study of ergativity and put forward a hypothesis about the ergative system of the pre-Indo-European language .
Uhlenbeck taught Sanskrit to Robert van Gulik .
Compositions
The passive nature of the transitive verb or action verb in the languages of North America. To the doctrine of cases. Agens and Patiens in the case system of Indo-European languages. The identifying nature of the possessive inflection in the languages of North America // Ergative sentence construction. - M. - T. 1950 . Archived on October 30, 2008.
Literature
De Jong JPB In memoriam Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck // Lingua. - 1953. - T. 3 , No. 3 .