BEHAGHEL, OTTO

born May 3, 1854, Karlsruhe, Baden died Oct. 9, 1936, Munich language scholar who specialized in studies of the German language and whose Deutsche Syntax, 4 vol. (1923-32; "German Syntax"), is a massive compilation and classification of examples of German linguistic usage from the 8th to the 20th century. Behaghel held professorships at Heidelberg, Ger., at Basel, Switz., and at Giessen, Ger.; edited two important journals of Germanic studies; and published two works that remain standard treatises, Die Deutsche Sprache (1886; "The German Language") and Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache (1901; "History of the German Language").