Franz Nikolaus Finck
Franz Nikolaus Finck (26 June 1867 – 4 May 1910)[1] was a German philologist, born in Krefeld. He was a professor of General Linguistics at the University of Berlin.
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Finck visited the Aran Islands of Ireland, where he lived with speakers of Irish Gaelic. His research on the phonology of Irish resulted in the book Die araner mundart: ein beitrag zur erforschung des westirischen (The Aran Dialect: A Contribution to the Exploration of Western Irish).[2] This work was characteristic of Finck's emphasis on the study of remote dialects of languages.[3]
He went on to work on a broad variety of languages, but was best known to his colleagues for his work on languages of the Caucasus. He also worked extensively on the Armenian language, compiling a grammar of that language.[4]
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Finck held the belief[1] (now known to be mistaken) that all of the languages of the Caucasus were related.
Among his students was John Peabody Harrington.
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References
- Harrington, J. P. (1910). "Franz Nikolaus Finck". American Anthropologist. 12: 724–728. doi:10.1525/aa.1910.12.4.02a00110.
- Finck, Franz Nikolaus (1899). Die araner mundart: ein beitrag zur erforschung des westirischen (in German). N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
- Luthin, H. W. (2002). Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader. University of California Prress. ISBN 0520222709.
- Finck, Franz Nikolaus (1902). Lehrbuch der neuostarmenischen Litteratur-Sprache (in German). Druckerei des Klosters S. Etschmiadsin.