Dieter Messner

Dieter Messner (born October 19, 1942 in Opole ) is an Austrian Romance scholar and linguist.

life and work

Messner studied at the University of Vienna from 1960 and at the Sorbonne from 1966 . He received his doctorate in Vienna in 1967 with the dissertation Pierre Bersuire, translator of Titus Livius. A vocabulary study for the first book of the first decade and was an assistant at the University of Vienna. From 1969 he moved to the University of Salzburg as an assistant . He completed his habilitation in 1974 and was Professor of Romance Studies in Salzburg until his retirement in 2011. In 2002 he received the Augsburg University Prize for Spanish, Portugal and Latin American Studies .

From the beginning, Messner's central research area has been the history of words in French, Spanish and Portuguese on the basis of chronological repertories and dictionaries (in which the words are sorted according to their first lexicographical evidence). His method culminates in the monumental dictionary of Portuguese dictionaries, which has been published since 1994, in which all existing dictionary articles are listed chronologically for each word (so far over 10,000 pages).

Works (selection)

• Chronological-etymological studies on the Ibero-Romance languages ​​and French . Tuebingen 1974.
• Essai de lexicochronologie française . Salzburg 1975.
• Dictionnaire chronologique de la langue portugaise . Heidelberg 1976.
• Introduction to the history of French vocabulary . Darmstadt 1977.
• Répertoire chronologique des mots français . Heidelberg 1977.
• History of the Spanish vocabulary . Heidelberg 1979.
• (with Hans-Joachim Müller ) Ibero-Romansh. Introduction to language and literature . Darmstadt 1983.
• História do Léxico Português . Heidelberg 1990.
• (Ed.) Bachiller Olea. Vocabulos gallegos escuros lo que quieren dezir . La Coruña 2003.
• (Ed.) Vocabulários Indígenas Sul-Americanos pertencentes ao espólio de Virgil von Helmreichen zu Brunnfeld (1805-1852) . Salzburg 2004.
• (with Rudolf Angermüller ) Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and the language and music of France . Vienna 2005.
• Lengua y cultura españoles en Viena en el siglo XVII - una aproximación filológica . Salzburg 2006.
• Parerga . Salzburg 2007 (collection of articles).
• Miscelánea lexicológica iberrománica . Salamanca 2008 (collection of articles).
• (Ed. And translator) The French private correspondence of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg Hieronymus Franz de Paula Josef Graf Colloredo von Waldsee and Mels. Salzburg 2012.

The dictionary of Portuguese dictionaries

• Dicionário dos dicionários portugueses . Salzburg 1994 ff. (Here in alphabetical order)
  • (I) ABA-ABC, 1994, 298 p.
  • (II) ABD-ABU, 1994, XXII + 428 p.
  • (III) AC, 1996, 710 p.
  • (IV) ADA-AFU, 1996, 665 p.
  • (V) AGA-AJU, 1995, XXVI + 462 p.
  • (VI) ALA-ALG, 1997, 667 p.
  • (VII) ALH-ALZ, 1998, XII + 609 p.
  • (VIII) AM, 1998, XIII + 519 p.
  • (XXI) AN-AO, XXI, 2003, XII + 623 p.
  • (XXIII) APA-APU, 2005, XIV + 611 p.
  • (XXIV) AQ-ARL, 2005, XV + 419 p.
  • (XXVI) ARM-ARRI, 2005, XIV + 489 p.
  • (XXVII) ARRO-ATELI, 2006, X + 711 p.
  • (XXIX) ATEM-AZU, 2007, 730 p.
  • H, 2005, XIV + 489 p.
  • K, 2002, XVIII + 179 p.
  • (XXXIV-1) L-LAZ, 2010, XXX + 424 p.
  • (XXXVI) NA-NI, 1999, XXII + 320 p.
  • NO-NU, 2001, LXXIII + 286 p.
  • O, 2002, XXV + 624 p.
  • (XL) Q, 2009, XXVI + 310 p.
  • (XVL) U, 1997, 200 p.

literature

• Bernhard Pöll and Franz Rainer (eds.): Vocabula et vocabularia. Etudes de lexicologie et de (méta-) lexicographie romanes en l'honneur du 60e anniversaire de Dieter Messner . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
• Dieter Messner: "Paralipomenon". In: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Hrsg.): Romance studies as a passion. Great moments in recent specialist history IV. LIT, Münster 2015, pp. 217–233 (with picture).

Web links

• Personnel page of the University of Salzburg, with picture
• Literature by and about Dieter Messner in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)