Linguistics and Modern Philology in Germany 1800–1840 as ‘Scientific’ Subjects and as University Disciplines

Abstract

It is not in the 19th century nor in Germany that linguistics and modern philology were born — they are much, much older. What did come about in the 19th century in Germany, however, was the evolution of a certain kind of linguistics, that is to say comparative historical linguistics, and the establishment of modern philology, comprising both language and literature, as a university discipline, respectively as various university disciplines.KeywordsGrammar SchoolFull ProfessorshipComparative ComponentMedieval LiteratureClassical PhilologyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.