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Karl (Adolph) Verner [kɑ(ː)lˈʋaɐ̯ˀnɐ] (born
7 March,
1846 in
Århus; died
5 November,
1896 in
Copenhagen) was a
Danish linguist. He is remembered today for
Verner's law, which he discovered in
1875.
Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of
Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864. He studied
Oriental,
Germanic and
Slavic languages, and then served in the army before resuming his studies. He travelled to
Russia in December 1871, spending nearly a year learning the language. His first scientific paper was
Nogle Raskiana (1874).
At the same time he began to study the
accent of
Danish and the Slavic languages. According to his own account, upon getting up one morning, he was puzzled by the question why the
Gothic words
fadar and
broþar have different
consonants after the root
vowel. Since he was preoccupied with the study of accent at the time, he sought the explanation in that direction. This led to the formation of Verner's Law. He finished the relevant paper and sent it to
Vilhelm Thomsen in 1875. Urged by Thomsen, he published it a year later.
Despite his achievement, Verner considered himself only an amateur of German philology. He declined certain offers of professorship, contenting himself to be a librarian at
Halle. With reluctance, he applied for the
Bopp prize, which went to him in 1877. He became an extraodinary professor only in 1888, when he was also elected a member of the
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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