Erich Berneker (3 February 1874 – 15 March 1937) was a German linguist, Slavicist and Balticist, follower of the Neogrammarian school.[1]

He was born in Königsberg. He studied in Leipzig under August Leskien, receiving a doctorate in 1895 with a thesis on Old Prussian language, covering its texts, grammar and an etymological dictionary. Afterwards he went to Russia for a one-year study period. He habilitated in 1899 with a paper on word order in Slavic languages (Berlin, 1900). He worked as a private assistant professor in Berlin from 1902, as an associate professor in Prague, as a full professor since 1908 in Wrocław (German Breslau), and since 1911 in Munich.[1]

He is best known as the author of a Slavic etymological dictionary (letters A-Mor, 1908–1913). In it he collected the inherited Slavic vocabulary, put it into the context of the Indo-European language family, and discussed the most important loanwords in Slavic languages. Although incomplete, this dictionary was of essential influence on the future work in the Slavic etymological studies.[1]

He died in Munich.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Berneker, Erich", Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 1999–2009, retrieved May 20, 2014


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