SOWA, Rudolf von. Lemberg (now L’viv, Ukraina) 30.1.1853 — Brünn (Brno in Czech) 29.9.1900. Austrian (of Poland) Schoolteacher, Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Son of elder Rudolf von Sowa and Rosa Sowowá (née Arnoldová). Gymnasium in Brünn (Brno), from 1870 studies at Vienna, Innsbruck and Cracow. Ph.D. 1878 Cracow. Gymnasium Professor of Classics at the German Gymnasium of Brünn from at least 1890 until his death.
Publications: “Zur Aussprache des Westarmenischen”, 14 p. Progr. Stadtgymnasium Trübau 1882.
– “Erzählungen der slovakischen Zigeuner”, ZDMG 39, 1885, 509-516; “Die mundart der westfälischen zigeuner”, Zeitschrift für völkerpsychologie und sprachwiss. 19, 1889, 192-203; “Neue Materialien für den Dialekt der Zigeuner Deutschlands”, ZDMG 47, 1893, 450-463.
– Die Mundart der slovakischen Zigeuner. 192 p. Göttingen 1887; Wörterbuch des Dialekts der deutschen Zigeuner. 14+128 p. A.K.M. 11:1. Lp. 1898.
– “A Vocabulary of the Slovak-Gypsy dialect”, JGLS 1, 1888-89, 160-166, 235-241, 296-300, 362-367 & 2, 1890-91, 110-114, 181-185, 240-245, 307-312 & 3, 1891-92, 50-56, 170-177.
– “Statistical Account of the Gypsies in the German Empire”, JGLS 1, 1888-89, 29-33, 134f.; “The Dialect of the Gypsies of Brazil”, JGLS 1:2, 1888, 57-70; “Three Slovak Gypsy Tales”, JGLS 3, 1891-92, 81-85; other articles in JGLS.
– In Brünn Progr. “Die Nominalbildung in den Algonkinsprachen”, 18 p. 1891; “Die Mährische Mundart der Romsprache”, 19 p. 1893; “Die Mundart der catalonischen Zigeuner”, 11 p. 1897.
Sources: D.L.K. 1890 & 1900; stray notes in Internet; not in Wurzbach.
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