Author: Heyse, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig [1797-1855] [ Steinthal, Heymann (1823-1899) ; editor: ]
Title: System der Sprachwissenschaft
Description: Berlin, F. Dümmler, 1856. 1/4-leather. 23x14cm, xx,476 pp, Contemporary binder's quarter-leather. Title foxed. Spine scuffed. Some pencilled marginal notes throughout.. Binding heavily rubbed. Rubberstamp to title. Just Good. ¶ ["Heyse received his early education at gymnasiums in Oldenburg and Nordhausen, and from 1812 to 1815, studied at a private institute in Vevey,Switzerland. After briefly serving as a tutor to the youngest son of Wilhelm von Humboldt, he enrolled in classes at the University of Berlin (1816). Here, he studied philology under Philipp August Böckh. From 1819 to 1827, he was a private tutor to the family of banker Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (including Felix Mendelssohn). In 1827 he received his habilitation at the University of Berlin, where in 1829, he became an associate professor. At Berlin, he lectured on Greek and Latin literature, the philosophy of language and general linguistics... Among his original writings was "System der Sprachwissenschaft", a book edited and published in 1856 by Heymann Steinthal" - wikipedia].

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