Alfred Schlomann

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Alfred E. Schlomann (born August 10, 1878 in Malchow ; † March 31, 1952 in New York ) was a German engineer and terminologist .

Life

Schlomann was the third son of the Jewish merchant family Hermann (1839–1913) and Friederike (1840–1913) Schlohmann, who, together with the brothers August and Heinrich, ran a shop for cloth, manufactured goods and fashion goods in Malchow. After attending school at the former Realgymnasium in Bützow (now Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium) Schlomann first studied at the Kgl. Techn. Hochschule zu Berlin, then from October 1903 to October 1904 at the University of Rostock Physics and " Cameralia ", finally in Munich. He then became an engineer in a Bavarian machine factory and, after the First World War, a consulting engineer in the Bavarian Ministry of Commerce. In 1932 he was awarded the degree of "Honorary Doctor" from the Technical University of Berlin.

In 1937 he emigrated to New York with his wife and children. After the Second World War , he returned to Germany to work as a translator at the Nuremberg war crimes trials . He died in New York at the age of 73.

Terminologist

Schlomann was the editor of a number of six-language illustrated technical dictionaries in German, English, French, Russian, Italian and Spanish, which were published in 17 volumes by R. Oldenbourg (then Munich and Berlin ) from 1906 . The technical terms were not arranged alphabetically, but in groups according to the context in connection with alphabetical indices according to languages. The core element of the concept was also a large number of technical drawings of the defined terms, so that the “dictionaries” (actually terminologies) were also helpful for users of other languages. So were z. B. translated some volumes into Czech and into the planned languages Esperanto and Ido . Eugen Wüster , who is considered to be the founder of modern terminology , mentioned Schlomann very often in his basic work Internationale Sprachnormung in der Technik (1931) and felt strongly influenced by him.

In addition, Schlomann took over the publication of the fully revised 6th edition 1932 of the trilingual technical dictionary German, English, French by Egbert von Hoyer and Franz Kreuter, which was last published in the 5th edition in 1903.

Auditing

When the new professional profile of the auditor was established at the end of the 1920s , Schlomann worked in cooperation with the Association of Consulting Engineers to ensure that the relevant work of the engineers was given due consideration.

The "Schlomann – Oldenbourg" series

  • Volume 1 The machine elements and the most common tools . 1906, 1938, 1968 (translation into Ido 1910).
  • Volume 2 Electrical Engineering and Electrochemistry . 1907, 1928.
  • Volume 3 steam boiler . Steam engines, steam turbines, 1908, 1942.
  • Volume 5 Railway Construction and Operation . 1909. ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 6 Railway Engineering . 1909. ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 8 Reinforced concrete in civil engineering . 1910. ( archive.org ). (Translation into Esperanto Armita betono en surkaj subteraj Konstruajhoj , 1935).
  • Volume 9 Machine tools for metal and woodworking . 1910. ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 10 Motor Vehicles. Motor vehicle . Motor boats, motor airships, flying machines, 1910. ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 11 Ironworks
  • Volume 12 water technology . Air technology, refrigeration technology, 1915.
  • Volume 13 Building Constructions . 1919. ( archive.org ).
  • Volume 14 Fiber Raw Materials . 1923, 1930.
  • Volume 15 Spinning and Webbing . 1925.
  • Volume 16 Weaving and Weaving . 1930
  • Volume 17 Aviation . 1932.

literature

  • Alfred Schlomann . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 24 : Ryssläder secretary . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 1102 (Swedish, runeberg.org ). Also Alfred Schlomann . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 38 : Supplement: Riksdagens bibliotek – Öyen; tillägg . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1926, Sp. 226 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Helga Wagner: Difficult search for clues. In: Nordkurier , supplement Heimat Kurier , June 10, 2013, p. 23.
  • Elizabeth Lowe Schlomann, Sue Ellen Wright: The Life and Works of Alfred Schlomann: Terminology Theory and Globalization . Contribution to the 15th European Symposium on Languages ​​for Special Purposes. Bergamo 2005. Published in Heribert Picht (Ed.): Modern Approaches to Terminological Theories and Applications . Peter Lang, New York 2006, pp. 153-161.
  • Schlomann, Alfred F. , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 331

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlomann on ancestry.com
  2. ^ Gravestone in the Jewish cemetery (Malchow) .
  3. ^ University of Rostock, "Small Matriculation" 1903, No. 25.
  4. ^ This is the name of the author in Schlomann's writing Wirtschaft, Technik und Wirtschaftsprüfung . Berlin 1932. See personnel and course directory TH Berlin 1937/1938. (PDF) p. 10.
  5. ↑ Wagner 2013.
  6. ^ Preliminary review of volume 1 with a description of the working method (translation based on the drawing) and an example of an entry in: Hans A. Martens: Bücherschau. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 319, 1904, pp. 751-752.
  7. ↑ Technological Dictionary. Trade, industry, technology and its scientific bases, mining and metallurgy, processing industry, raw materials, materials, material testing, semi-finished and finished products, electrical engineering, telecommunications technology, measurement technology, film technology, optical industry, weapons technology, medical and health technology, accident prevention, construction, Chemical technology, agriculture and forestry, food industry, textile industry, clothing industry, trade, trade fair, banking, traffic and motoring, shipbuilding and shipping, patents, customs, legal studies and numerous other areas of expertise / Hoyer-Kreuter. Edited by Alfred Schlomann. Springer Berlin 1932.
  8. ↑ Economics, technology and auditing . Berlin 1932, ISBN 978-3-642-47712-6 .
  9. ^ Contemporary review in: Bücherschau. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 326, 1911, p. 208.
personal data
SURNAME Schlomann, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlomann, Alfred E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and terminologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchow , Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1952
Place of death new York