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  • 2 - Research on Wilhelm von Humboldt and His Brother Alexander as Americanist Linguists

  • from Part I - Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Americas
  • Emanuel J. Drechsel, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book:
    Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 26-44

  • Summary

    In response to frequent misconceptions about Humboldt as a linguist, Chapter 2 provides the reader with a review of historiographic research options on the lives of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his younger brother Alexander as Americanist scholars, drawing on three distinct but compatible methodological and conceptual resources: (1) biography as a form of history or the historical ethnography of individual lives; (2) ethnohistory or historical ethnography of a community as a comprehensive, anthropologically conceived social history; and (3) philology as a historical-linguistic method for the analysis of early linguistic attestations, including their systematic reconstruction by triangulation with contemporaneous or modern data for closely related dialects or languages (“reconstitution”).