John Rhys an Hugo Schuchardt (02-09515)
von John Rhys
an Hugo Schuchardt
22. 04. 1871
Englisch
Schlagwörter: Universität Göttingen Universität Oxford Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Walisisch Müller, Friedrich Leskien, August Wolf, Michaela (1993) Leskien, August (1905)
Zitiervorschlag: John Rhys an Hugo Schuchardt (02-09515). Göttingen, 22. 04. 1871. Hrsg. von Dagmar Bronner, Belma Mahmutovic, Verena Schwägerl-Melchior und Markus Wursthorn (2017). In: Bernhard Hurch (Hrsg.): Hugo Schuchardt Archiv. Online unter https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:hsa.letter.5683, abgerufen am 27. 09. 2023. Handle: hdl.handle.net/11471/518.10.1.5683.
Weender Strasse 57
Göttingen
April 22. 18711
Lest you should not have had my note from London I take the liberty of sending you another with my address for the semester for I have just taken rooms here. I only came here yesterday and as it was a very wet and dull day Göttingen made no cheerful impression on my mind; today everything looks brighter and I begin to think I shall be able to pass a semester here without committing suicide, as the only alternative in a place like this is between ennui and hard study: the town |2| appears to be in a very dilapidated state about one half of the houses apparently being ready to fall. I went to Benfey’s2 this morning: the handle of the bell was gone and as I knocked trying to find a portier a female voice from the second floor shouted to me to enter and so I did. However the professor has a snug home there. I liked him very much. He advises me to read the Rigveda privatissime here: Max Müller3 had strongly advised me not to begin the Veda at all. I think of doing so however. Try and get my books sent off as soon as possible: I shall be expecting the “Schein” for them at your earliest convenience for I am very miserable when I have no books especially in a strange place. Please to remember me kindly to Professor Leskien: I |3| will send the Welsh book as soon as I unpack my things too. I wonder if his Altbulgarisches Glossarium4 is ready by this time. With kind regards
I remain
yours truly
J. Rhŷs
1 In Wolf (1993: 327) ist irrtümlich 1891 als Jahreszahl vermerkt.
2 Theodor Benfey (1809–1881), Indologe, seit 1848 Professor für Sanskrit-Philologie an der Universität Göttingen.
3 Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900), Indologe und Religionswissenschaftler, lehrte an der Universität Oxford seit 1851 zunächst moderne europäische Sprachen und wurde 1868 ebendort zum Professor für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft ernannt.
4 Siehe vorhergehenden Brief (01-09514); die Bemerkung bezieht sich vermutlich auf Leskiens Handbuch der altbulgarischen (altkirchenslavischen) Sprache. Grammatik. Texte. Glossar (Weimar: Böhlau, 1871).