My intuition says ['fʁɔbɪnjuːs] but not sure about it.
BTW, The person in question is 'Ferdinand Georg Frobenius' (the mathematician).
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Sign up to join this communityMy intuition says ['fʁɔbɪnjuːs] but not sure about it.
BTW, The person in question is 'Ferdinand Georg Frobenius' (the mathematician).
/fʁoˈbeːniʊs/ (primary stress on the second syllable)
The r is more fricative, although a slightly rolling /ʀ/ is appropriate for more articulate pronunciation (e.g. when speaking in front of a larger audience without PA system). However, in some rural regions in the northwest, in the south of Germany as well as in Austria and Switzerland, natives will roll it stronger, like /ʀ/ or even /r/.
/ˈfɛʁdinant ˈgeːɔʁk fʁoˈbeːniʊs/
(In Ferdinand, the r is often slurred away completely, making it /ˈfɛɐ̯dinant/. Some people will pronounce the first syllable more like /feːɐ̯/.)
( See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_IPA-Zeichen#R )
The second syllable gets the stress, i.e. [fʀoːˈbeːni̯ʊs]. This is according to latin rules (penultimate syllable is stressed if long, otherwise the one before it) that are observed in the German pronunciation of Latin. Examples include Auˈsonius or Auˈrelius.
Since Frobenius is a latinised name, the traditional German pronunciaton of latin words should apply: [ˈfʀoːbeːni̯ʊs] (with the usual variation of the pronunciaton of the letter r). This is also the pronunciaton I heard among mathematicians.