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Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling

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Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling (13 October 1780 in Detmold – 1 April 1849 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German philologist and grammarian known for his scholastic treatment of German syntax.[1]

Career

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From 1801 to 1804, he studied theology at the University of Göttingen, afterwards spending several years as a private tutor in Frankfurt am Main. From 1809 to 1849, he worked as an instructor at the gymnasium in Frankfurt, and in the meantime served as a professor of classical languages at the Frankfurt Lyceum (1811–14). He was a founding member (1817) and president of the Frankfurtischen Gelehrtenvereins für Deutsche Sprache.[2][3]

Works

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Along with philologist Karl Ferdinand Becker, Herling is considered to be a primary representative of the so-called school of "rational grammar" in Germany.[3] His principal writings are:

  • Ueber die Topik der deutschen Sprache, 1821 – The topic of German language.
  • Grundregeln des deutschen Stils oder der Periodenbau der deutschen Sprache. Ein Lehrbuch für den stilistischen Unterricht, 1823 (Google). Later editions as 2nd part of Die Syntax der deutschen Sprache.
  • Die Syntax der deutschen Sprache – German language syntax.
    • 1st part, 1830 (Google)
    • 2nd part also named Grundregeln des deutschen Styls, oder der Periodenbau der deutschen Sprache: 2nd ed. 1827 (Google), 3rd ed. 1832 (Google, Google)
  • Erster Cursus eines wissenschaftlichen Unterrichts in der deutschen Sprache für Deutsche, 1828 (Google)
  • Theoretisch-praktisches Lehrbuch der Stylistik für obere Classen höherer Schulanstalten und zum Selbstunterricht, 1837, 1st part (Google), 2nd part (Google) – Textbook of stylistics.
  • Vergleichende Darstellung der Lehre vom Tempus und Modus. Ein Beitrag zur einfachern und richtigern Behandlung dieser Lehre in den Grammatiken der griechischen, deutschen, lateinischen, französischen und hebräischen Sprache, 1840 (Google) – Comparative studies on the doctrines of tense and mode.[4]

Herling was also the author of several treatises with mathematical and theological themes.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Google Books Geschichte der methodik des deutschen volksschulunterrichts, Volumes 1-3 by Karl Kehr
  2. ^ a b ADB: Herling, Simon Heinrich Adolf @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  3. ^ a b CTLF, Notices Die Syntax der deutschen Sprache
  4. ^ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling
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