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Schuchardt, Hugo (1842–1927)

2006

H. Schuchardt's doctoral thesis submitted to Bonn University in 1862 became the basis of the famous three volumes on the vocalism of Vulgar Latin (1866–1868), building a bridge between Classical and Romance Philology. He became a full professor of Romance Philology in Halle, Central Germany, and thereafter in Graz, Austria (1876–1900). In his 770 publications, Schuchardt dealt with the classification of Romance dialects, with etymologies and the cultural background of words discussed, and with descriptions of Portuguese-, French-, Spanish-, English- and Dutch-based creole languages so that Schuchardt became the founder of creolistics. Language mixture in Europe, Africa and Asia was describe…