![]() ![]() ![]() He had already gained a formidable reputation for his ability of acquiring a sound knowledge of a range of Indo-European languages very quickly, and this was now augmented by an impressive scholarly reputation. It was clear since the publication of his doctoral thesis on the origin of ē-verbs in Indo-European (awarded 1948, magna cum laude published 1950) that Wagner was an unusually gifted scholar. The result was his monumental Linguistic atlas and survey of Irish dialects, published in four volumes between 19. This was a remarkably ambitious plan for a young scholar, and during the next twenty years he worked indefatigably to bring it to fruition. Having returned to Ireland in 1949 as a scholar at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ( DIAS), he published an outline plan for his projected work in Éigse, vi (1949). He was now determined to apply the methods adopted by Hotzenköcherle, who was responsible for the Swiss German linguistic atlas, to a major study of Irish dialects. While he was a student in Zurich, he had studied phonetics and dialect geography. He later changed his own spoken dialect of Irish to the Donegal variety. Heinrich then visited many other Gaeltacht areas, collecting more oral material and acquainting himself with the dialects. He became fluent in Irish, and collected folklore material from the famous storyteller Peig Sayers (qv), which he transcribed phonetically. Kerry from December 1945 until June 1946. He stayed in the Dunquin Gaeltacht in Co. This course awakened his interest in the Celtic languages, and in September 1945 he went to Ireland in order to gain a practical knowledge of Irish, which he considered to be of extraordinary importance to students of Indo-European. ![]() In the winter semester of 1943/4, he also took an introductory course in Old Irish with the distinguished scholar Julius Pokorny (qv). When he went to university, however, he studied Germanic philology and Indo-European, his principal teachers being Professors Hotzenköcherle and Leumann. In his early years, he excelled both as a pianist and a linguist, and he had hopes of becoming a concert pianist. He took the Matura (school leaving certificate) in 1941, and began his university career at the University of Zurich in the same year. Heinrich received his early education at Primär Schule, Zurich (1929–35), and later at Das Kantonal Litterar Gymnasium (1935–41). His mother, the daughter of a restaurateur, spoke German (her native tongue), French, and Italian fluently. (1923–88), linguistic scholar, was born 16 January 1923 in Zurich, Switzerland, elder of two sons of Heinrich Wagner, businessman, and his wife Eliza (née Siegfried), both of Zurich. ![]()
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