Georg Wenker
Georg Wenker was a German linguist who began documenting German dialect geography during the late nineteenth century. He is considered a pioneer in this field and has contributed several groundbreaking publications, most notably, the Deutscher Sprachatlas.
Georg Wenker was born in Dsseldorf on January 25, 1852. There he attended Gymnasium and in 1872 received his eligibility to attend college. Beginning the summer semester of 1872, Wenker studied in Zrich, Bonn and Marburg. In 1876, Wenker earned the Ph.D. in Tbingen with a dissertation topic on the shifting of German root syllables. In 1877 he took on the position as a librarian at Kniglichen Universitt Marburg, where he later received an honorary professorship in 1898. In 1886 he was appointed honorary member of the Koninklijke vlaamsche Academie voor taal en letterkunde. Eventually, the institution became nationalized in 1888 and Wenker became director. He died in 1911.
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