Guntram A. Plangg

Guntram Adolf Plangg (born January 19, 1933 in Bürs ) is an Austrian Romance scholar, Rhaeto-Romanic scholar and linguist.

life and work

Plangg studied German, Romance studies and English in Innsbruck and Poitiers. He did his doctorate in 1957 in Innsbruck with Alwin Kuhn on the Rhaeto-Romanic field names of the Brandnertal. A contribution to Vorarlberg's Rätoromania Alemanica (Innsbruck 1962). From 1958 to 1960 he was a lecturer in Catania, then assistant at the Institute for Romance Studies in Innsbruck. In 1969 he completed his habilitation there with Speech Form as a consequence and providence. On the phonology of the Dolomite Ladin (Badiot) and its neighbors (Tübingen 1972). In 1970/71 he was visiting professor at Ohio State University in Columbus (with Hans-Erich Keller ). From 1972 until his retirement in 2001 he taught at the linguistic chair “Romance Studies I” in Innsbruck . Since then he has been involved in the publication of numerous place and field name books. Buck was also Vice President of the Academy of German-Italian Studies from 1996 to 1998 .

Other works

• (Ed., Together with Eberhard Tiefenthaler) Cosmopolitan Romance Studies. Festschrift for Alwin Kuhn's 60th birthday , Innsbruck 1963
• (Addition and revision) Antone Pizzinini, Parores ladines. Vocabulary badiot-tudësk , Innsbruck 1966
• (Ed., Together with Johannes Kramer) Verbum Romanicum. Festschrift for Maria Iliescu , Hamburg 1993
• (together with Paul Videsott ) Marebbe Dictionary / Vocabolar Mareo. Ennebergisch-German, with a declining dictionary and a German-Ennebergian index , Innsbruck 1998
• (Ed., Together with Eugen Thurnher) Language and Poetry in Front Austria. Alsace, Switzerland, Swabia, Vorarlberg, Tyrol. A symposium for Achim Masser on his 65th birthday on May 12, 1998 , Innsbruck 2000
• (Ed., Together with Maria Iliescu and Paul Videsott) The diverse Romania. Dialect - language - umbrella language. Commemorative publication for Heinrich Schmid (1921–1999) , Vich 2001

literature

• Ladinia et Romania. Festschrift for Guntram A. Plangg on his 65th birthday , ed. by Maria Iliescu, Werner Marxgut, Erich Mayr, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier and Lotte Zörner, Vich 1998
• Paul Videsott: Brief history of the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck.

Web links

• Literature by and about Guntram A. Plangg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short résumé of Guntram A. Plangg on the website of the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck (with picture)