Edmund Nied

Edmund Nied (born March 27, 1889 in Boxberg , † March 27, 1939 in Richtstetten ) was a German Catholic priest and name researcher .

Youth, studies and military service

The son of a master carpenter in Boxberg, whose mother came fromgerichtstetten, grew up in modest circumstances. The local pastor of Boxberg at the time promoted the boy's talent, who then passed his Abitur in 1910 in Tauberbischofsheim . He then started studying philosophy at the University of Freiburg , where he soon changed subjects and studied Catholic theology . On June 30, 1915, Nied was ordained a priest in St. Peter and then served as a medical soldier and hospital chaplain in the German army. In November 1918 he was released seriously injured.

Professional career

Nied had his first job in St. Blasien , where he was a chaplain. In 1920 he got a job as vicar in Grombach and then became prefect in the grammar school in Rastatt . In 1921 he was finally employed as a secretary at the Archbishop's Office in Freiburg , where he also resumed his studies at the university. In 1923, Nied was awarded a doctorate degree with a dissertation on the subject of "Adoration of saints and naming". phil. PhD. The philological state examination followed in 1927, in which he worked on the subject of "Faith and Knowledge according to Thomas Aquinas". In 1928 he received a traineeship for teaching in Tauberbischofsheim and Rastatt and was then from 1929 to 1931 professor in Tauberbischofsheim and then in Donaueschingen . In 1939, Nied retired for health reasons and moved from der Baar to his Franconian homeland in Richtstetten.

research

His Abitur speech in 1910 on the subject of “The German Family Names” already shows the scientific interest that has occupied Nied all his life. His dissertation in 1924 was followed by numerous publications in the daily press on onomatology and in the same year the family name book for Freiburg, Karlsruhe and Mannheim. In this work the interpretation of the names was in the foreground.

Nied, who was in close contact with Ernst Ochs , who worked in Freiburg and who edited the Baden dictionary , soon realized that research on names in the Alemannic part of the country had been carefully worked out by several researchers such as Wilhelm Tobler-Meyer , Alfred Götze or Adolf Socin , for the Franconian North Baden, however, no serious research on family names had been undertaken. As a result of the processing of the names of this landscape, the work “Fränkische Familiennames” appeared in 1933, after series of articles had already appeared in newspapers such as the “Heimatklänge des Tauber- und Frankenbote”.

Nied conducted research on names according to a system he developed, in which he essentially formed four main groups of names, which he named as follows:

• inherited baptismal names
• Homeland names
• Property and nicknames as well as
• Names for office, class and profession.

He divided these main groups into numerous sub-groups.

In addition to family names, he also devoted himself to the field names of his hometown Boxberg and the surrounding area; the corresponding publications on this were published in 1935 and 1936.

Further works were the "Südwestdeutsche Familiennamen" (published in 1936) and the "Familiennames der Baar und Umgebung" which comprised 733 place names and 4000 scientifically interpreted personal names.

Web links

• Website of the Hardheim community

literature

• Norbert Hensle: The name researcher Prof. Dr. phil. Edmund Nied as a reminder. In: Ekkhart. Yearbook for the Badner Land. Freiburg 1968, pp. 146–152.