BERGMANN, Frédéric-Guillaume (Friedrich Wilhelm)

BERGMANN, Frédéric-Guillaume (Friedrich Wilhelm). Strasbourg 9.2.1812 — Stras­bourg 13.11.1887. French (Alsatian) Linguist and Philologist. Professor in Strasbourg. Son of Anton Josef B. and Christiane Sophie Roessel. Studies of theology at Paris, of philology (especially Nordic) at Paris, Göttingen and Berlin. Dr.-ès-Lettres 1839. From 1838 in charge of Cours de littérature étrangère at Faculté de Strasbourg, from 1840 Professor of the same. In 1860 Dean of the Faculty. Continued in his chair under German rule. Married 1841 Emilie Bartholmé, two sons and one daughter

Bergmann also taught Sanskrit and had among his students Liétard and Barth, but the latter gave a poor testimony of his teaching and linguistic competence, while his many publications have got probably a well earned oblivion.

Publications: Diss. 1. De Religione Arabum anteislamica. 37 p. Argentorati 1834; 2:1. De linguarum origine atque natura. 48 p. Ibid. 1839; 2:2. Théorie de la quantité prosodique basée sur l’analyse des formes grammaticales et démonstrée d’abord sur la langue latine. 68 p. Ibid. 1839.

Origine et significance des romans du Saint Grael. 24 p. Strasbourg 1839.

Translations from the Edda, etc.

Les Amazones dans l’histoire et dans la fable. 30 p. Colmar 1852; Les Scythes. 16+74 p. Colmar 1858; Les Gètes ou la filiation généalogique des Scythes aux Gètes et des Gètes aux Germains aux Scandinaves. 15+306 p. Strasbourg 1859; Les peuples primitifs de la race de Jafète. 64 p. Colmar 1853; L’unité de l’espèce humaine et la pluralité des langues primitives. 28 p. P. 1864.

– Résumé d’études d’ontologie générale et de linguistique générale. 2nd ed. 12+315 p. P. 1869, 3rd ed. 21+489 p. P. 1875; Sprachliche Studien. 16 p. Strassburg 1872; Cours de linguistique. 47+269 p. P. 1876.

Studies on Dante, e.g. Dante, sa vie et ses œuvres. 53 p. P. 1866, 2nd ed. 13+376 p. Strasbourg 1881.

Sources: T. de Morembert, D.B.F. 6, 1954, 10f.; A. Krafft, N.D.B. 2, 1955, 87f.; *E. Sitzmann, Dict. de biogr. des hommes cél. de l’Alsace 1, 129; works in Cat. Bibl. nat. 11; German Wikipedia; on his Sanskrit teaching see Roşu, Liétard & Cordier. 1989, LVf.

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