Life
1806-1856; b. Vogtendorf, nr. Kronach, S. Germany [Franconia]; ed. Munich
University; history, philosophy, classics, Hebrew and Arabic; Die Deutschen
und die Nachbarstamme [The Germans and their Neighbours] (1837);
turned to Celtic studies in 1837; travelled to Karlsrühe, Darmstadt,
Wurzburg, St. Gall, Milan, &c, copying glosses; inaugurated study
of Celtic languages in c.1843, and published ten years after his Grammatica
Celtica (Leipzig: Weidmann 1853) which was later which was revised
and augmented by Herman Wilhelm Ebel, the finished work acquiring the
designation ‘Zeuss-Ebel’. OCIL
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Works
Grammatica Celtica, e monumentis vetustis tam hibernica linguae,
quam Britannicarum dialectorum Cambricae, Cornicae, Aremoricae, comparatis
Gallicae priscae reliquiis construxit I[ohann] C[asper] Zeuss. editio
altera, curavit H. Ebel ([1853]Berlin: Weidmannos 1871).
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Criticism
Bernhard
Forssman, ed., Erlanger Gedenfeier für Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1989).
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Notes
Belfast Central Library holds Grammatica Celtica (1871 edn.)
Grammatica Celtica (1853), discusses cliath/clethnat, glossed with
tigillum, a little rafter, beam (p.282) [SEE George A. Little, Dublin
Before the Vikings, 1957, 61]. OXCO, first published in Leipzig in
1853; second edition, 1871, revised by Hermann Ebel.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)