Julius Platzmann

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Karl Julius Platzmann (born 31 January 1832 in Leipzig; died 6 September 1902 in Leipzig) was a German botanist, draftsman and philologist. His official author citation was "Platzm".

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Life

Between 1858 and 1864,  Platzmann lived in Paranagua (Brazil), in order to study the local flora and fauna.


In Germany, Platzmann’s lifestyle was quite different — he was diligent in the extreme, and described himself almost as a recluse:

I was able to read with diligence, because I never go out in company or to a club, never go to the theatre, never go to a concert, never go to a restaurant [...], never travel – with minimal exceptions –, am at home all year round, go to bed at 10 o’clock, even if I don’t get up early, but I am with my cause all day long and I very much hate it when someone visits me and takes me out of my circle of thoughts. [Translated from Platzmann’s original German by Van Hal] [1]


His place in the history of linguistics is due to this later period and is somewhat ironically owed to a passion for native languages which arose only once he had returned to Europe, where he began collecting books about Native American languages written by missionaries. He published a catalog of his collection in 1879. [2]

Facsimiles

Later in his life, Platzmann published facsimiles of his collected books, beginning in 1874 with a facsimile of the Tupi grammar of 1595 by the Jesuit José de Anchieta. Facsimile editions of historical South American language books followed and eventually included the Carib, Arawak, Tupi, Guarani, Araucano, Quechua-Aymará and the Mexican Nahuatl (Aztec) languages.

The incredible fidelity of the facsimiles is demonstrated below by two sample pages from Ludovico Bertonio's vocabulary of the Aymara language. [3] On the left is the original, a scan of the same page in the facsimile is on the right. [4]

Page 22, Bertonio original.png Platzmann's facsimile of Bertonio vocabulary, page 22.png
Page 22, Bertonio originalPlatzmann’s facsimile of Bertonio vocabulary, page 22

Platzmann himself dedicated an entire book to the topic of why he created facsimiles. [5]

Legacy

Platzmann was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886. [6]

His library of grammars, catechisms, and materials about American languages was purchased from Teubner and subsequently sold by Otto Harrassowitz. [1]

Selected bibliography


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References

  1. 1 2 Van Hal, Toon (2020). "Between oblivion and instrumentalization. The vicissitudes of early-modern missionary grammars and dictionaries in 19th-century scholarship, and the special case of Julius Platzmann". RAHL: Revista argentina de historiografía lingüística. 12 (1 (Continuidades y rupturas en la lingüística misionera del siglo XIX)): 65–82. ISSN   1852-1495.
  2. ↑ Platzmann, Julius (1876). Verzeichniss einer Auswahl Amerikanischer Grammatiken, Wörterbücher, Katechismen, u.s.w. Robarts - University of Toronto. Leipzig, Köhler.
  3. ↑ Bertonio, Ludovico (1612). Vocabulario de la lengua aymara. Primera parte, : donde por abecedario se ponen en primer lugar los vocablos de la lengua española para buscar los que les corresponden enla lengua aymara. Compuesto por el P. Ludouico Bertonio .italiano dela Compañia de Iesus enla Prouincia del Piru, delas Indias Occidentales, natural de la Roca contrada dela Marca de Ancona. John Carter Brown Library. Impresso en la casa de la Compañia de Iesus de Iuli pueblo en la Prouincia de Chucuito [Peru]. : Por Francisco del Canto.
  4. ↑ Bertonio, Ludovico (1879). Vocabulario de la lengua aymara. Harvard University. Leipzig : B.G. Teubner.
  5. ↑ Platzmann, Julius (1893). Wesshalb ich neudrucke der alten amerikanischen grammatiker veranlasst habe. Harvard University. Leipzig, Druck von B. G. Teubner.
  6. ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
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