Alfred Webinger

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Alfred Webinger (born March 13, 1885 in Taiskirchen in Upper Austria ; † December 24, 1956 in Graz ) was an Austrian high school teacher and folklorist .

Life

Alfred Webinger was born in Taiskirchen in Upper Austria in 1885 . He lived in Graz and taught there at the Academic Gymnasium .

In addition, and especially after his retirement , he mainly devoted himself to ethnological and naming problems, but also published works critical of language . He also worked as a language trainer in the Alpenländischer Kulturverband Südmark , where from 1964 he headed a "working group for language maintenance". Webinger was close to the national movement and published in the NS-Gauverlag Graz.

He was in correspondence with Emil Ertl and died in Graz in 1956.

Publications

  • 1910: The relationships between people from the Innviertel and those from the countryside . Vienna: Helios.
  • 1925: Christmas carols from Upper Austria . Linz: Pirngruber.
  • 1928: Filzmoos. A little book to guide you through the southern Dachstein landscape . First edition. Graz: Leuschner & Lubensky.
  • 1943: Gnarled people. Cheerful stories from the Ostmark . Jauer: Queisser.
  • 1943: Art-conscious language thinking . First edition. Graz: NS-Gauverlag.
  • 1944: Art-conscious language thinking . Second, increased edition. Graz: NS-Gauverlag.
  • 1948: On the linguistic origin of the name Hirschkranl . In: Historischer Verein für Steiermark (ed.): Blätter für Heimatkunde 22/2. Pp. 70-71.
  • 1949: The good language expression. Small style studies and language teaching for everyone . First edition. Graz / Vienna: Leykam.
  • 1949: From Affn and Strauben . In: Institute for Folk Culture (ed.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter. 3/1949. Pp. 67-72.
  • 1950: Filzmoos. A little book to guide you through the southern Dachstein landscape . Second edition. Graz: self-published.
  • 1951: Happy Birsch. Humor about hunting and hunters . Graz / Vienna: Leykam.
  • 1952: Field names, farm names and family names from Taiskirchen. In: Institute for Folk Culture (ed.): Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter. 6/1952. Linz: 1952. pp. 378–380, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • 1953: On the topography of the Hochschwab area. Settlements, alpine pastures, meadows, mountains, bodies of water. Graz / Vienna: Leykam.
  • 1957: Place names in the Weizer Bergland. A contribution to place names in Styria . Wheat.
  • 1958: The good language expression. Leasy style studies and language teaching for everyone . Second edition, revised by Rudolf Pucsko. Graz / Vienna: Leykam.

literature

  • Maria Kundegraber: Alfred Webinger . Obituary. In: Austrian magazine for folklore . New series Volume 11. Complete series Volume 60, 1957 ,. Pp. 142-145.
  • Literature by Alfred Webinger in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcements from the 'Mutterssprache' Vienna association. Volume 4/1954. Issue 2. p. 7.
  2. ^ Austrian National Library: Korrespondenz Webinger, Alfred (author); Ertl, Emil, 1860-1935 (addressee) .
personal data
SURNAME Webinger, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Taiskirchen
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1956
Place of death Graz