Julius Pokorny

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Julius Pokorny
Born12 June 1887
Prague
Died8 April 1970(1970-04-08) (aged 82)
Zürich
NationalityAustrian-Czech[1]
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Vienna
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
Friedrich Wilhelm University
University of Bern
University of Zurich
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Julius Pokorny (12 June 1887 – 8 April 1970) was an Austrian-Czech linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages and of Celtic studies, particularly of the Irish language, and a supporter of Irish nationalism. He held academic posts in Austrian and German universities.

Early life and education

Julius Pokorny was born on 12 June 1887 in

Benedictine Abbey school in Kremsmünster, Austria. From 1905 until 1911, he studied at the University of Vienna, graduating in law and philology, and he taught there from 1913 to 1920.[2]

Career

During

propagandist, urging Irish republicans to launch the Easter Rising against the British Empire. He is known to have met and corresponded with Roger Casement, an activist for Irish independence who was executed in 1916.[3][4] Pokorny also served in the war as a reservist in the Austro-Hungarian Army (Cisleithanian) Army starting in 1916.[5]

In 1920, he succeeded

Jewish ancestry. He was reinstated later that year under the exemption for those who had worn the uniform of Germany or its allies in World War I, which had been insisted on by Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg as a precondition before he signed the bill into law. In 1935, he was dismissed once again under the provisions of the racist Nuremberg Laws; which led to his replacement as the Berlin Chair for Celtic studies by Ludwig Mühlhausen [de].[6] He continued to live more or less openly in Berlin until at least 1939, but lived a shadowy and underground existence there from around 1940 until he escaped to Switzerland in 1943.[7] He taught for a few years at the University of Bern and at the University of Zurich
until his retirement in 1959.

In 1954, he received an honorary professorship at

Edinburgh University
in 1967.

Death

He died in Zürich in 1970, almost three weeks after being hit by a tram not far from his home.

Scholarship

He was the editor of the journal of philological studies

Irish nationalist[citation needed] history of Ireland in 1916, which appeared in English translation in 1933.[8]

Pokorny was a dedicated supporter of the

Pan-Illyrian theory and located the Illyrian civilisation's Urheimat between the Weser and the Vistula and east from that region where migration began around 2400 BC.[9] Pokorny suggested that Illyrian elements were to be found in much of continental Europe and also in Britain and Ireland. His Illyromania derived in part from archaeological Germanomania and was supported by contemporary place-names specialists such as Max Vasmer (1928, 1929)[10] and Hans Krahe (1929, 1935, 1940).[11]

Works

Books
Articles
  • "Der Gral in Irland und die mythischen Grundlagen der Gralsage", Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 62 (1912): 1–15.
  • "Erschienene Schriften: Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Literaturdenkmälern", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (ZCP) 9 (1913): 184–6.
  • "Die englische Herrschaft in Irland", Petermanns Mitteilungen 62 (1916): 361–65, 409–12.
  • "Der irische Aufstand von 1798", Irische Blätter 4 (1916): 331–340.
  • "Rasse und Volk in Irland", Irische Blätter 7 (1917): 524–528.
  • "Beiträge zur ältesten Geschichte Irlands. 1. Die Fir Bolg, die Urbevölkerung Irlands", ZCP 11 (1916–17): 189–204.
  • "Beiträge zur ältesten Geschichte Irlands. 2. Der gae bolga und die nördliche, nicht-iberische Urbevölkerung der Britischen Inseln", ZCP 12 (1918): 195–231.
  • "Beiträge zur ältesten Geschichte Irlands. 3. Érainn, Dárin(n)e und die Iverni und Darini des Ptolemäus", ZCP 12 (1918): 323–357.
  • "Zu Morands Fürstenspiegel", ZCP 13 (1921): 43–6.
  • "Das nichtindogermanische Substrat im Irischen", ZCP 16 (1927): 95–144, 231–66, 363–94; 17 (1928): 373–88; 18 (1930): 233–48.
  • "Substrattheorie und Urheimat der Indogermanen", Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 66 (1936): 69–91.
  • "Zum nichtindogermanischen Substrat im Inselkeltischen", Die Sprache 1 (1949): 235–45.
  • "Die Geographie Irland bei Ptolemaios", ZCP 24 (1954): 94–120.
  • "Keltische Urgeschichte und Sprachwissenschaft", Die Sprache 5 (1959): 152–64.
  • "The Pre-Celtic Inhabitants of Ireland", Celtica 5 (1960): 229–40.

See also

References

Citations
  1. ^ Mees, Bernard (1996), "Linguistics and Nationalism: Henry d'Arbois de Jubainville and Cultural Hegemony", Melbourne Historical Journal 25, p. 55 (46–64): "Austrian-Czech Celticist".
  2. ^ Ó Dochartaigh (2004), pp. 21–26.
  3. ^ Ó Dochartaigh (2004), pp. 41.
  4. ^ Doerries, Reinhard R., Prelude to the Easter Rising: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany, Frank Cass, London & Portland 2000, p. 189
  5. ^ Ó Dochartaigh (2004), p. 40.
  6. ^ Hemprich. "Institutsgeschichte". Universität Bonn Abteilung für Keltologie. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  7. ^ Keogh p. 103
  8. ^ Pokorny, Julius, Irland, 1916; Pokorny, Julius, A History of Ireland, 1933.
  9. ^ Pokorny, J. (1936) "Substrattheorie und Urheimat der Indogermanen", p. 213
  10. ^ Vasmer, Max. 1928 "Beitrage zur alten Geographie der Gebiete zwischen Elbe und Weichsel" Zeitschrift für slawische Philologie 5.360–370.
  11. ^ Krahe, Hans. Lexikon altillyrischer Personennamen (Dictionary of Old Illyrian personal names) (1929).
Bibliography

Further reading

External links
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