Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling
German grammarian and philologist
About Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling
Lived 1780 – 1849 (aged 68). Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling was a university teacher, germanist, classical philologist, linguist, theologian and philologist.
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.
Career 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.
Works Along with philologist Karl Ferdinand Becker, Herling is considered to be a primary representative of the so-called school of "rational grammar" in Germany. Herling was also the author of several treatises with mathematical and theological themes.
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German grammarian and philologist (1780-1849)
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Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling was born on 13 October 1780 in Detmold.
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Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling died on 1 April 1849 in Frankfurt.
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Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling was a university teacher, germanist, classical philologist, linguist, theologian and philologist.
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