Franz J. Beranek

Franz Josef Beranek (born August 8, 1902 in Lundenburg , South Moravia , † August 11, 1967 in Gießen ) was a German linguist .

Life

Franz Beranek devoted himself to his scientific work at the German Charles University in Prague and from 1960 at the University of Gießen to researching German dialects with a focus on South Moravia . During his time in Prague Beranek became a member of the Association of German Students Saxonia and in the 1960s also a member of the Association of German Students Gießen . His life's work was working on a Sudeten German dictionary .

Beranek was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the Sturmabteilung (SA). After the Second World War he tried unsuccessfully to gain international recognition in one of his research fields, Yiddish studies , but was rejected by the YIVO and its chairman Max Weinreich because of his National Socialist commitment .

Fonts

• The place names of South Moravia
• The South Moravian dialect
• The dialect of the Brno German language island
• The Mödritz dialect
• Lundenburg - A study of names and settlements
• Basic information on South Moravian dialect research
• From Lundenburger German
• Thaya water
• Dialect and settlement in South Moravia
• The collection of South Moravian field names
• West Yiddish Language Atlas
• The Pinsker Yiddish, Berlin 1958.

Editing

• Sudeten German Dictionary

literature

• Kalman Weiser: "One of Hitler's Professors": Max Weinreich and Solomon Birnbaum confront Franz Beranek. In: Jewish Quarterly Review 108, 2018, pp. 106–124.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz J. Beranek in the catalog of the German National Library
• 50 years of the Sudeten German dictionary at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• West Yiddish Language Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Franz J. Beranek ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (short biography)
2. ↑ Marc Zirlewagen: Biographies of the clubs German students, Vol. 1: Members A-L. Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-2288-1 , pp. 48/49.
3. ↑ Kalman Weiser: “One of Hitler's Professors”: Max Weinreich and Solomon Birnbaum confront Franz Beranek. In: Jewish Quarterly Review 108 (1), 2018, pp. 106–124.