Der Begründer der tschechischen Germanistik Václav Emanuel Mourek und Südböhmen
The Founder of German Studies at the Czech University of Prague Václav Emanuel Mourek and South Bohemia

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the fi rst representative of the German Studies at the Czech University of Prague Václav Emanuel M􀶈􀶎􀶋􀵾􀶄 (1846–1911) and focuses on his personal and professional contacts with South Bohemia: 1871–1883 this Czech Germanist lived in České Budějovice, where he taught German, Latin, Greek, English and Stenography at the fi rst Czech grammar school, and later – during his academic career in German Studies at the Czech University of Prague (1883–1911) – he described from the historiolinguistic point of view some of the 13th–14th centuries German manuscripts from the South Bohemian region, such as Krumauer Bruchstück eines mitteldeutschen geistlichen Gedichtes (1889), Neuhauser Bruchstücke einer Pergamenthandschrift altdeutscher Gedichte ernsten Inhalts (1890), Krumauer Papiercodex altdeutscher geistlicher Texte (1891), Krumauer altdeutsche Perikopen vom Jahre 1388 (1893) and Zum Dialekt der Krumauer altdeutschen Perikopen vom J. 1388 (1893), which were published in the scientifi c journal Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften.

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