Jacob Grimm: Geschichte der deutschen SpracheJacob Grimm considered the Geschichte der deutschen Sprache (1848) his best work. It documents that Grimm by no means contented himself with the discussion of isolated topics of language history. In the course of his life as a scolar, he rather searched, with increasing intensity, for an inherent law that interconnects and accelerates language, cultural, and ethnic history. The cognitive basis of this research was the concept of the organism which was common at this time; he eventually adopted it as theoretical principle of his historiography in the Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Because of individual, serious mistakes, this work has been rejected by early reception and has scarcely been considered in the field of research until today. Recent investigations, however, indicate that an adequate evaluation of the complete works of Grimm can only be successful as long as the theoretical and conceptional implications of the Geschichte der deutschen Sprache are taken into consideration, as well. The introduction to this reprint, based upon the forth edition in 1880, compiles the results of these analyses, thereby enforcing the need for a revision of the image of Grimm already been claimed long ago. | |
| Multivolume Work | |
| Werke | |
| Grimm, Wilhelm; Grimm, Jacob | |
| 1985 | |
| Olms-Weidmann | |
| Hildesheim [u.a.] | |
| PPN521163617 | |
| http://www.olmsonline.de/purl?PPN521163617 | |
| Volume | |
| Bd. 15 = Abt. 1, [3], Teil 1 | |
| Geschichte der deutschen Sprache | |
| Grimm, Jacob | |
| 1999 | |
| Olms-Weidmann | |
| Hildesheim [u.a.] | |
| PPN521180899 | |
| 431 | |
| Literaturwissenschaft | |
| http://www.olmsonline.de/purl?PPN521180899 | |
