1. Julius Pokorny was an Austrian-Czech linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages and of Celtic studies, particularly of the Irish language, and a supporter of Irish nationalism.
16 Facts About Julius Pokorny
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Julius Pokorny held academic posts in Austrian and German universities.
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Julius Pokorny was born on 12 June 1887 in Prague, Bohemia, under the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Julius Pokorny was educated at the Piarist School in Prague and the Benedictine Abbey school in Kremsmunster, Austria.
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Julius Pokorny is known to have met and corresponded with Roger Casement, an activist for Irish independence who was executed in 1916.
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Julius Pokorny served in the war as a reservist in the Austro-Hungarian Army Army starting in 1916.
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Julius Pokorny continued to live more or less openly in Berlin until at least 1939, but lived a shadowy and underground existence there from around 1940 until he escaped to Switzerland in 1943.
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Julius Pokorny taught for a few years at the University of Bern and at the University of Zurich until his retirement in 1959.
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Julius Pokorny was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Wales at Swansea in 1965 and Edinburgh University in 1967.
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Julius Pokorny died in Zurich in 1970, almost three weeks after being hit by a tram not far from his home.
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Julius Pokorny was the editor of the journal of philological studies from 1921 until forced out by the Nazis in 1939, and was responsible for reviving it in 1954.
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Julius Pokorny continued to edit it until his death in 1970.
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Julius Pokorny is the author of the, which was a central text in its time.
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Julius Pokorny published several collections of Irish writing in German translation, and a thoroughly Irish nationalist history of Ireland in 1916, which appeared in English translation in 1933.
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Julius Pokorny suggested that Illyrian elements were to be found in much of continental Europe and in Britain and Ireland.
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Julius Pokorny's "Illyromania" derived in part from archaeological "Germanomania" and was supported by contemporary place-names specialists such as Max Vasmer and Hans Krahe.