Günther Jontes

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Günther Jontes (born December 26, 1939 in Graz ) is an Austrian folklorist. From 1983 until his retirement he was an associate professor at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz , which was previously called the Institute for Folklore.

Act

Jontes was director of the Museum of the City of Leoben from 1970 to 2001 and has been a member of the State Historical Commission for Styria since 1989 , including a member of the Standing Committee from 2002 to 2016. Jontes' main focus is on European folklore and cultural history. His main research interests concern mining and funeral culture , folk tales, linguistics and material science.

Jontes also deals with non-European cultures, especially the culture of India and the Himalayan countries .

He published books and scientific works, especially on Styrian history and cultural history. He continues to work scientifically after his retirement.

Jontes is married to Lieselotte Jontes, a PhD historian who was a librarian and specialist librarian for the documentation of the mining industry at the University of Leoben until her retirement .

He was a member of the Graz fraternity Allemannia.

Publications

  • 1965 Words of agriculture and other peasant working groups in the dialect between Raab and Ilz (with an appendix about the peasant names of the seasons); (Phil. Diss.) Graz 1965
  • 1977 Vordernberg and Eisenerz in the year 1793. Mining from KF Leitner's "Patriotic Journey from Grätz via Eisenerz to Steyr" ; (= Leoben Green Booklet 175); Vienna 1977
  • 1977 Göß Abbey. A guide through history and art ; Leoben 1977
  • 1982 Lent and Easter custom in the sacred landscapes around the Styrian Erzberg (Habil.); Graz 1982
  • 1987 (with Kurt Woisetschläger), the former Jesuit and today's parish church of St. Xaver zu Leoben . History and art; Leoben 1987
  • 1989 Leoben, the old mountain town. History, art, present ; Fohnsdorf 1989
  • 1993 Waasenkirche. A guide through history and art ; Leoben 1993
  • 1997 The preliminary peace of Leoben in 1797 and the events of the first French invasion of Styria ; Leoben 1997
  • 1998 Austrian dictionary of swear words ; Graz 1998. (Graz 2009 - new edition under the title “Austrian Schimpfwortbuch”).
  • 1998 Kayserfleisch and Steirerkas. Forays into the culinary past of Styria ; Graz 1998
  • 1998 Troubled times. A Leoben postman experienced the revolutionary year 1848. From the diaries of Joseph Karrer ; Leoben 1998
  • 1999 Göß 1914-1918. A district of Leoben suffers the First World War. The war chronicle of the senior teacher and headmaster Anton Lex; Leoben 1999
  • 2001 Bergknapp, Teufel, Wassermann. The legends of the Steirische Eisenstrasse ; Leoben 2001
  • 2002 The Dalai Lama - very close. Texts and photos ; Graz 2002
  • 2003 The chronicle of the Benedictine monastery in Göß. “In 1782 we sin we were abolished” ; Leoben 2003
  • 2005 St. Xaver in Leoben. From the order to the parish church. A guide through history and art ; Leoben 2005
  • 2006 The Protestant Gustav Adolf Church in Leoben. A guide through history and art ; Leoben 2006
  • 2007 The Green, the Bronze Mark. A short version of the long history of Styria ; Trautenfels 2007
  • 2007 When I went to get Christmas joy. With Peter Rosegger through Advent and Christmas time ; Graz 2007
  • 2008 A 33 Scho wieda steirisch g'redt ; Graz 2008

Editing, editing

  • 1973 (ed.), The Leobener Strauss. Contributions to the history, art history and cultural history of the city and district of Leoben ; Leoben 1973/1982
  • 1979 (Red.), Mining history of the Erzberg area. Lectures at the workshop from November 17 to 19, 1978 in Vordernberg ; Leoben 1979
  • 1979 (ed.), Alt-Leoben. History sheets on the past of the city and district ; Leoben 1979/1992
  • 1982 (Red.), Archduke Johann Year 1982 in Leoben. A city commemorates the Styrian prince. Events of the Archduke Johann Board of Trustees ; Leoben 1982
  • 1984 (Ed. With Helmut Eberhart, Völker Hänsel, Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch), Building - Living - Design. Festschrift for Oskar Moser on his 70th birthday (= series of publications by the Trautenfels Castle Landscape Museum at the Styrian State Museum Joanneum 2); Trautenfels 1984
  • 1987 B 6 (ed.), Isidor Proschko: Stories from Austria's past ; Fohnsdorf 1987
  • 1998 B 7 (Ed. With Bettina Zorn, Susanne Leitner-Böchzelt), China - Hidden Treasures. Resurrection of a 2000 year old culture. Han dynasty grave finds. Kunsthalle Leoben, May 15 to November 19, 1998, exhibition catalog; Leoben 1998
  • 1999 (Red. With Christian Schicklgruber, Susanne Leitner-Böchzelt), Gods of the Himalayas. Mysterious world of mystical Tibet . Exhibition catalog. Kunsthalle Leoben, May 15 to November 14, 1999; Leoben 1999
  • 2000 (Ed. With Susanne Leitner-Böchzelt), Peru - Sunken Cultures. Exhibition catalog . Kunsthalle Leoben March 11 to November 5, 2000. The world of the Inca, Mochica, Nasca, Lambayeque, Chimú; Leoben 2000
  • 2006 (Ed. With Otto Schinnerl), Berggeist, Zauberer, Wilde Jagd. Legends from the Styrian Almland, told and drawn by the children of the Arzberg elementary school ; Arzberg 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Taus, "Leoben" in "Studentenkurier". 2/2018, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Jontes, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz