Ernst Ochs

Ernst Ochs (born August 27, 1888 in Ettenheim ; † January 12, 1961 in Freiburg ) was a German philologist and long-time editor of the Baden dictionary .

Ochs grew up in Ettenheim as the son of a senior teacher. He studied German and English at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Freiburg. In 1911 he was at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with a language historical work at Friedrich Kluge Dr. phil. PhD.

After the state and assessor exams, in 1914 the Baden government commissioned him to create a Baden dialect dictionary in collaboration with Friedrich Kluge and Alfred Götze . Since Ochs was drafted as a soldier in 1914, he could not start work until 1919, where he was full-time professor at the Bertholdgymnasium in Freiburg.

As early as 1921, Ochs was able to present an initial overview of the structure of the Baden dialects. In 1925 the dictionary was first published. In 1940 he presented the first volume. Further volumes appeared in quick succession from 1951 onwards. Ochs had been teaching Old Germanic dialects and Alemannic dialects at the University of Freiburg since 1927, to which he remained connected throughout his life.

In a publication with the headline “Proposal” in 1922, Ochs took the view that linguistic reality would be ignored if, as a dialect researcher, when collecting down-to-earth vocabulary, the only legitimate providers and suppliers were those of the local population who, if possible, never left the village have come. "The actual language carrier is not the firmly rooted original person, but the sociable person in the middle of traffic."

Honors

• 1946: Honorary Professor at the University of Freiburg
• 1958: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• Phonology studies on Notker of St. Gallen: On the Upper German of the 11th century. Troemer, Freiburg i. Br. 1911. At the same time Univ. Diss.
• Be careful with Klein's provincial dictionary! In: Journal for German Dialects. Volume 17, 1922, pp. 74-77.
• The author of the Sausenberger Idiotikon. In: Journal for German Dialects. Volume 17, 1922, pp. 78-81.
• Suggestion. In: Journal for German Dialects. Volume 17, 1922, p. 81.
• Samples of the Baden dictionary including the structure of the Baden dialects. Müller, Karlsruhe 1923. (= From Lake Constance to Main. Heimatblatt 12).
• Baden dictionary: as a sample of the first volume at the German Librarian's Day for its anniversary conference […]. Schauenburg, Lahr i. B. 1925. Contains the letter A to all-generic .
• The dialect of the Kaiserstuhl. The Kaiserstuhl - Landscape and Volkstum, pp. 171–182. Freiburg i. Br. 1939.
• Top secret. Stories. Poppen & Ortmann, Freiburg im Breisgau 1955.

source

Gerhard W. Baur: In memory of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ochs. In: The Ortenau. Volume 68, pp. 57-51. Offenburg 1988.