Franz Roitinger

Franz Roitinger (born September 25, 1906 in Weibern (Upper Austria) , † May 12, 1968 in Vienna ) was an Austrian linguist .

Life

Franz Roitinger was the tenth child of the married couple Leopold and Theresia Roitinger. He first attended the federal high school in Ried and then studied German at the University of Vienna . In 1933 Roitinger completed his doctorate with Anton Pfalz with the dissertation Die Mundart von Weibern in Upper Austria. Brief theory of phonetics and inflection .

He remained true to the science of dialect research throughout his life. His life's work was characterized by an extensive activity in the creation of the card catalog of the “Bavarian-Austrian Dictionary Chancellery” of the Academy of Science in Vienna and, above all, his considerable contribution to the writing of the articles in the dictionary of Bavarian dialects in Austria .

Roitinger lived in Vienna until his death in 1968 and was buried in Krummnussbaum (Lower Austria) .

Scientific activity

Even as a student, Roitinger showed great interest in Austrian dialects and heard lectures on dialectology from Anton Pfalz. Before the Second World War he was involved in the preparatory work on the Bavarian-Austrian dialect dictionary under the leadership of the Palatinate , until he was drafted into military and war service in 1940 with subsequent imprisonment.

In 1947 he returned to the dictionary office and devoted himself to the processing, mapping and lemmatization of the abundant material available. By the time the first delivery of the dialect dictionary appeared in 1963, more than half of the three and a half million dialectic specimens available to date had been lemmatized by Roitinger.

In addition, he worked on various scientific treatises, first on the book Our Dialects , published in 1950 in collaboration with Maria Hornung . A dialectological hike through Austria , in which the essays about Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Upper Austria and Salzburg come from him. Three works by Roitinger - To Partizipialbildung in eo-dialects of Upper Austria , traces of extinct According to state and old According to confusion in the Bavarian-Austrian and a dying word of the Bavarian-Austrian: . Ahd ferah, . Mhd verch vita, anima, corpus sanguis - were in published by the journal for dialect research . He had prepared further dialectical studies, but they never came to be published: such a work on the synonym for the piglet-minder , for which he had collected, sifted through and in part already edited extensive material.

He also conducted research on the particularly in Upper Austria customary and mainly in the Upper Austrian "Mooslandl" sprout vowels (z. B. Peri for "mountain", zwerich for "transverse" Galign for "gallows" Orawoaß for "work" ( "peas") Etc.). When the individual articles were drafted in the dictionary office of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1962 after partial completion of the preparatory work for the Austrian-Bavarian dialect dictionary , Roitinger played a key role in this. Based on his profound knowledge of the Old and Middle High German as well as his precise knowledge of the Austrian, especially Upper Austrian dialects, combined with his enthusiasm for dialect-based linguistics, he mastered even the most difficult word phenomena and explained word and linguistic connections and problems.

literature

• A. Pischinger: Dr. Franz Roitinger †. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 22, Linz 1968, Issue 1/2, pp. 101-102 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at; obituary).
• Austrian magazine for folklore. Volume 71, Vienna 1968.
• The Austrian dialects. An introduction. Revised by Gerhard Zeillinger. Vienna 2000.
• Martin Moser: Dr. Franz Roitinger - "The dialect in women". For the 100th birthday of the dialect researcher. In: The Bundschuh. Series of publications by the Innviertler Volkskundehaus Museum. 9, 2006, pp. 77-80.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Roitinger in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Database of Bavarian dialects in Austria