Ernst Eichler (Linguist)

Ernst Eichler (born May 15, 1930 in Niemes , Czechoslovakia ; † June 29, 2012 in Leipzig ) was a German linguist who was considered the nestor of Slavic onomastics in Germany.

Life

After graduating from high school in Delitzsch , Ernst Eichler studied Slavic and German at the University of Leipzig from 1950 to 1955 . Reinhold Olesch was one of his teachers there . Already in 1955 Eichler received his doctorate with his work The place and river names of the districts Delitzsch and Eilenburg . With his research results from the studies of the early history of Slavic dialects between Saale and Neisse , Eichler qualified as a professor in 1961 in Slavic philology. In 1975 he was appointed full professor for the Czech language and held this professorship until his retirement1995 from. Even after this time he continued his more than four decades of research at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig.

From 1978 until his death, Eichler was a full member of the philological-historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . He was also one of the founding members of the Niederlausitz working group for regional research at the Cottbus District Council in 1965 .

About 1000 publications come from Ernst Eichler, mainly on naming and settlement history in Germany and the western Slavic region.

honors and awards

• Full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (1978)
• External member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts (1997)
• Medal of Honor from Charles University in Prague (1998)
• Eike von Repgow Prize of the State Capital Magdeburg and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (1998)
• Full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts (1999)
• Honorary doctorate to Dr. phil. hc from Comenius University in Bratislava
• Honorary doctorate to Dr. paed. hc from the University of Leipzig

Fonts

• The names of places and rivers in the Delitzsch district. A study of names in the area between the Saale and Mulde. Dissertation . Leipzig 1955.
• The place and river names of the Delitzsch and Eilenburg districts. Studies on onomastics and settlement history in the Saale-Mulde area (= German-Slavic research on onomatology and settlement history. No. 4). Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1958 (also: modified dissertation)
• with Elisabeth Lea and Hans Walther : The place names of the Leipzig district (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 8). Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1960.
• with the assistance of Karlheinz Hengst: Bibliography of name research in the German Democratic Republic. For the congress year 1963. Leipzig on-naming working group, Leipzig 1963.
• with Wolfgang Fleischer: Bibliography of German Linguistics in the Soviet Union, 1950–1960. Leipziger Linguistenkreis, Leipzig 1963.
• Studies on the early history of Slavic dialects between Saale and Neiße (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 19). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965 (also: habilitation thesis, Leipzig 1961)
• Field names of the Delitzscher Land (= publications on Delitzscher history. Issue 3). District Museum, Delitzsch 1965.
• Etymological dictionary of the Slavic elements in East Central German (= writings of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research. Volume 29). Domowina-Verlag , Bautzen 1965.
• Bibliography of name research in the German Democratic Republic. Volume 2 [1963–1965], Leipziger onenological working group, Leipzig 1966.
• with Hans Walther: The place names in the Gau Daleminze. Studies of the toponymy of the Döbeln, Grossenhain, Meissen, Oschatz and Riesa districts. Volume 1: Name book (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history. No. 20). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1966; Volume 2: Name and settlement history (= German-Slavic research on name history and settlement history. No. 21). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967.
• The Slavic Studies of Johann Leonhard Frisch. A contribution to the history of German Slavic Studies (= publications of the Institute for Slavic Studies. No. 40). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967.
• The place names of Niederlausitz. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1975.
• with Hans Walther: Place name book of Upper Lusatia. Studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. Volume 1: Name Book. (= German-Slavic research on namology and settlement history. No. 28). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975; Volume 2: Name and settlement history (= German-Slavic research on name history and settlement history. No. 29). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
• Jan Meschgang; Ernst Eichler (editor): The place names of Upper Lusatia. 2nd Edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1981.
• History of the Slovak language. Demolition (= textbooks and work materials for studying the Slovak language. Volume 8). Karl Marx University Leipzig, Section Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Leipzig 1982.
• Results of name research in the German-Slavic contact area (= session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 122. Issue 5). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982.
• with Volkmar Hellfritzsch and Johannes Richter: The place names of the Saxon Vogtland. Origin - development - meaning. Volume 1: Name book (= Vogtlandmuseum (Plauen ) series of publications . Issue 50). Vogtland Museum, Plauen 1983; Volume 2: On naming and settlement history (= Vogtlandmuseum (Plauen ) series of publications . Issue 53). Vogtland Museum, Plauen 1985.
• with Hans Walther: Investigations into toponymy and the history of language and settlement in the area between the Middle Saale and the Weißer Elster (= German-Slavic research into naming and settlement history. No. 35). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
• Reinhold Trautmann and German Slavic Studies (= session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 125. Issue 1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
• Contributions to German-Slavic name research. Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1985. (Reprint of small writings from the years 1955 to 1981)
• Slavic place names between Saale and Neisse. A compendium. 4 volumes. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1985–2009.
  • Volume 1: A-J. 1985. (2nd edition, 1987; 3rd edition, 1994, ISBN 3-7422-0096-9 )
  • Volume 2: K-M. 1987, ISBN 3-7420-0097-7 . (2nd edition, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7420-0097-2 )
  • Volume 3: N-S. 1993, ISBN 3-7420-0780-7 .
  • Volume 4: T-Z. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7420-1716-1 .
• with Hans Walther: City name book of the GDR. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986. (2nd edition 1988, ISBN 3-323-00007-2 )
• as editor: Slavic Studies in Germany. From the beginning to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, ISBN 3-7420-1538-9 .
• with Werner Mühlner: place names of Slavic origin. Northern Germany. Thon, Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-928820-49-4 .
• as editor with Hans Walther: Historical book of place names of Saxony (= sources and research on Saxon history. Volume 21). 3 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 .
• Contributions to Slavic-German language contact research. Volume 1: Settlement names in the Upper Franconian city and district of Bamberg. Winter, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1105-8 .
• with Werner Mühlner with the assistance of Hans Walther: The names of the cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Origin and meaning. Koch, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1 .
• Contributions to Slavic-German language contact research. Volume 2: Settlement names in the Upper Franconian city and district of Bayreuth. Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5091-6 .
• with the assistance of Hans Walther: Saxony. All city names and their history. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86730-038-4 .
• with Hans Walther: Old Leipzig and the Leipziger Land. A historical-geographical name book from the early days in the Elster-Pleißen-Land in the context of the language and settlement history. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86583-462-1 .
• with Christian Zschieschang: The place names of Niederlausitz east of the Neisse (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 81. Book 6). Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-7776-2155-5 .

literature

• Karlheinz Hengst , Dietlind Krüger (Hrsg.): Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Ernst Eichler (= onenological information, supplement. 23). Leipzig University Press, Leipzig 2005.
• Karlheinz Hengst: In memoriam Ernst Eichler (May 15, 1930– June 29, 2012). In: onenological information. Volume 101/102, 2013, pp. 492-501. ISSN  0943-0849 (PDF)
• Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook. Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present. Narr Francke Attempto, 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5001-3 , pp. 192-193.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Eichler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ernst Eichler  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Ernst Eichler in the Saxon Bibliography
• Ernst Eichler, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 22, 2017
• Eichler, Ernst ( Memento from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on domowina-verlag.de (with picture)
• Ernst Eichler at the Saxon Academy of Sciences
• Karlheinz Hengst : "In memoriam Ernst Eichler" ( Memento from March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Eichler at the Saxon Academy of Sciences