Adam Wrede

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Adam Wrede (born April 12, 1875 in Düsseldorf , † December 21, 1960 in Cologne ) was a German philologist , linguist and folklorist . He became known for his work New Cologne Language .

life and work

Grave of the Wrede family in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

Adam Wrede studied in Bonn and Münster history, German, philology and geography and in 1905 with a dissertation on the Cologne Bauer banks in Tübingen Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the KDStV Novesia Bonn . From 1903 to 1927 he taught as a senior teacher and teacher at the Schillergymnasium in Cologne. In 1915 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Southern Dutch Influences on the Cologne written language at the Cologne Commercial College . He received the Venia legendi for German language and cultural history, then taught as a private lecturer at the commercial college and was taken over to the newly founded Cologne University in 1919 . In December 1921 the university appointed him honorary professor at the philosophy faculty. However , he did not succeed in setting up his own chair for Rhenish folklore , repeatedly suggested by Wrede in the following years.

Wrede had been a member of the NSDAP since April 1933 and endeavored to emphasize his closeness to the NS worldview in academic teaching as well as in his publications. B. in the volume published in 1936 German Folklore on Germanic basis . In 1941 he retired .

Wrede died in 1960 at the age of 85. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 79).

The Handbook of New Cologne Vocabulary

Wrede became known for his three-volume work Neuer kölnischer Sprachschatz , published for the first time in 1956/58 and repeatedly reprinted , which was already ready for printing before the Second World War and was largely saved when Wrede's house was destroyed in 1942. Cologne's vocabulary, expressions, idioms and idioms are recorded on 1103 pages . Wredes added explanations of historical buildings, streets and incidents in the history of Cologne are not limited to the linguistic change of a term, but also mention, for example, possible structural changes or name of former Cologne districts that have been forgotten today. His work is not only to be seen as a lexicon of the Cologne language, but can also serve as a source of historical events.

In his work, Wrede not only strings together words and their translations, he combines history and language. The origin of the individual terms is important to Wrede. The “ Vita ” of a term is shown from the medieval often Latin form of a word to the Old Low German language , Old Cologne expressions and French names in Cologne's Napoleonic period to the name form of our day . There is even extensive biographical information on figures well known in the city, the so-called Kölsch originals . This compendium in three volumes is the most extensive of the Cologne language dictionaries and has been sold many times. Even Konrad Adenauer was one of Wrede's readers.

Wredes research on "Old Cologne vocabulary"

In his work, Wrede repeatedly referred to his research on Old Cologne , which was ready for printing (from 1914 with addenda until 1954). However, he died before the volumes were scheduled to appear. The existence and whereabouts of the documents were unknown for a long time until they were discovered in the historical archive of the city of Cologne by Stefan Winter, a patholinguist at the University of Cologne . Around 28,000 pieces of paper were stored there with research on Cologne's vocabulary from the imperial city period to the end of the “ French era ”. Small parts of them were damaged by the effects of the war . Even Winter, who died in 2006, was not allowed to publish this work with the support of the Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch . After the collapse of the Cologne archive building in 2009, the whereabouts and condition of the original notes were initially unclear. Towards the end of 2014, the digitization and restoration department of the city archives announced on request that they had found some of the notes "in a disordered state". Digitization will be more complex and will not be able to take place in the foreseeable future.

Honors

Adam-Wrede-Straße is named after him in the Cologne district of Nippes near the Botanical Garden .

Fonts

  • The Sülz monastery near Cologne (= supplement to the annual reports of the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. School year 1908–1909, ZDB -ID 1061916-1 ). Muench'sche printing and publishing house, Cologne-Ehrenfeld 1909. (online)
  • Rhenish folklore. Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1919. (2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Ibid. 1922; Unchanged reprint of the edition. From 1922. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-8035-1047-3 )
  • Eifel folklore (= From nature and culture of the Eifel. 3/4, ZDB -ID 742386-x ). Verlag des Eifelverein, Bonn 1922. (several editions)
  • German folklore on a Germanic basis. Zickfeldt, Osterwieck / Harz et al. Berlin 1936, (2nd, substantially revised and expanded edition, ibid. 1938)
  • New Cologne vocabulary. Greven, Cologne 1956–1958. (numerous editions)
    • Volume 1: A - J. 1956.
    • Volume 2: K - R. 1958.
    • Volume 3: S - Z. With appendix: Old Cologne-Kölnisch-Ripuarisch. Search help. 1958.

literature

  • Michael Löffelsender: Possibilities and Limits of a National Socialist Fashion Department. German Folklore at the University of Cologne 1919–1945 . In: Geschichte im Westen 23 (2008), pp. 89–117 ( pdf ).

swell

  1. ↑ a b Eduard Prüssen (linocuts), Werner Schäfke and Günter Henne (texts): Cologne heads . 1st edition. University and City Library, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-931596-53-8 , pp. 100-101 .
  2. ↑ Complete list of CV 1925, p. 75.
  3. ↑ Michael Löffelsender: Possibilities and Limits of a National Socialist Fashion Department. German Folklore at the University of Cologne 1919–1945 . In: Geschichte im Westen 23 (2008), pp. 89–117, here p. 95.
  4. ↑ Michael Löffelsender: Possibilities and Limits of a National Socialist Fashion Department. German Folklore at the University of Cologne 1919–1945 . In: Geschichte im Westen 23 (2008), pp. 89–117, here pp. 96–99.
  5. ↑ Michael Löffelsender: Possibilities and Limits of a National Socialist Fashion Department. German Folklore at the University of Cologne 1919–1945 . In: Geschichte im Westen 23 (2008), pp. 89–117, here pp. 104ff.
  6. ^ Museum Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Rhöndorf
  7. ↑ Notes on preparing a publication ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the " Akademie für uns Kölsche Sproch " (as of May 2010)
  8. ↑ eMail of November 25, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, linguist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1960
Place of death Cologne