BOUDA, Karl Ernst. Hamburg 10.2.1901 — Erlangen or Nürnberg (?) 31.7.1979. German Linguist and Caucasologist. Son of Karl Enoch Bouda and Karolina Völcker (ancestry.com) or Karl Friedrich Bouda and Elisabeth Gernet (Erlangen cat.). Gymnasium in Zwickau and Dresden. From 1918 studied comparative linguistics at Berlin and Erlangen. Ph.D. 1933 Berlin. PD 1936 Berlin for Basque and Caucasian languages, 1941 for general linguistics. From 1942 ao. Professor (ord. 1950) at Erlangen, until 1954. Later living in Nürnberg. Married 1927 Dotothea Reichenbach, three children.
Bouda was a many-sided linguist, who worked on Caucasian, Basque and North-East Siberian languages with the hope of finding common features. Also included Dravidian and Burushaski in his comparisons. In his opinion Caucasian, Basque and Burushaski formed a “Macro-Caucasian” language family.
Publications: Das transitive und das intransitive Verbum des Baskischen. 302 p. VKNAW 32:5. Amsterdam 1933; “Jenisseisch-tibetische Wortgleichungen”, ZDMG 90, 1936, 149-159; Die beziehungen des Sumerischen zum Baskischen, Westkaukasischen und Tibetischen. 23 p. Mitteilungen der altorientalischen Gesellschaft 12:3. Lp. 1938.
– “Die tibetisch–kaukasische Sprachverwandtschaft”, Lingua 2, 1950, 140-169
– “Die Sprache der Buruscho I. Indochinesische Beziehungen”, Eusko-Jakintza 4, 1950, 37-50, 337-346; “Buruschaski Etymologien”, ORBIS 3:1, 1954, 228-230 & 13:2, 1964, 604-609.
– “Dravidisch und Uralaltaisch”, Ural-Alt. Jb. 25/34, 1953, 161-173; “Dravidisch und Uralisch”, Lingua 5, 1955-56, 129-144.
– “Die Sprache der Jenissejer Genealogische und morphologische Untersuchungen”, Anthropos 52, 1957, 65-134; “Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse des Giljakischen”, Anthropos 55, 1960, 355-415.
– Much on a wide spectrum of languages extending from Basque and Sumerian to Gilyak and Chukchi, much on Uralic.
Sources: Stray notes in Internet; D.G.K. 1980; teacher catalogue of Erlangen University in d-nb.info; parents in ancestry.com; *Wikipedia in Basque is too much for me and in any case very brief.
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