Guntram Saladin

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Guntram Saladin (born May 29, 1887 in Grellingen , † November 25, 1958 in Walchwil , entitled to live in Grellingen) was a Swiss lexicographer and place name researcher . Today's principles of Swiss field name spelling go back to Saladin .

Life and work

Saladin was born as the son of the secondary school teacher Alfons Saladin and the Marie born Schmidlin. After graduating from Einsiedeln Abbey School , he began studying German philology at the Universities of Zurich and Freiburg , which he completed in 1923 with a dissertation on the history of the settlement of the Sense district in Friborg .

Saladin, who was briefly employed as a primary school teacher in Walchwil between 1913 and 1914 , taught as a high school teacher for ten years at the Progymnasium in Sursee after graduating from university . From 1933 to the end of 1957 he worked as the successor to Walter Clauss as an editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon , where he was able to devote himself entirely to his meticulous linguistic inclination.

In addition to his work on the dictionary, Saladin wrote over a hundred articles on names . The spelling of the field names , which is still used in most of the German-Swiss cantons, goes back to him, who was also the chairman of the Zurich field names commission . If these were previously noted in the official map series in Verbochdeutsch, this has since been done in a basically dialect form. Saladin had resumed an idea put forward by Albert Bachmann , which had been presented in 1916 but remained unsuccessful , and worked out a set of rules for a dialect spelling that at the same time corresponds to the familiar, standard German-based typeface.

Saladin was married to Emma, ​​born Hürlimann, daughter of the “Sternen” landlord in his place of residence, Walchwil. In the obituaries he was characterized as someone who “did his baptismal name Guntram (‹Kampf› + ‹Rabe›) […] occasionally more honor than was beneficial to him” ( Hans Wanner , editor-in-chief of Schweizerischer Idiotikons ), as “ Knight without fear and blame ”, author of“ hard-fought [dictionary] columns ”,“ very much involved in lively discussions ”,“ fighting some Strauss ”,“ that the sparks flew ”, but also as a“ versatile and profound person ” “A wide field of vision”, which was also devoted “with all his soul” to the music that he enjoyed at home and with friends. Saladin was one of the very few Idiotikon editors who received a commemorative publication from their colleagues - which, however, had to appear as a commemorative publication due to his surprising death.

Publications (selection)

  • numerous word articles in the Swiss Idioticon , volumes X – XII.
  • On the settlement history of the Friborg Sense district, in: Freiburger Geschichtsblätter 1923, pp. XXV – XXXI and 1–126.
  • About Lucerne surnames, in: Der Geschichtsfreund 84, 1929, pp. 109–141.
  • On the question of writing names on the new cards, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen und Kulturtechnik 34, 1936, pp. 110–116, 123–126; 35, 1937, pp. 106-114.
  • The names of the Pilatus region in Central Switzerland, in: Yearbook for Local Studies , Vol. IV – V. Räber & Cie, Luzern 1939, pp. 147–172.
  • Orderly spelling of place names. (A suggestion), in: Archiv für Volkskunde 40, 1942, pp. 239–255.
  • About the status of place name research in the canton of Zurich, in: Zürcher Taschenbuch auf das Year 1942, Zurich 1941, pp. 30–47.
  • Onomatological hikes through the Goms, in: Walliser Jahrbuch 1943, pp. 21–33.
  • The change in the writing of our field names, in: Zürcher Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1945, Zürich 1944, pp. 20–38.
  • Old field names in urban street names in Zurich, in: Yearbook from Lake Zurich 1949/1950 and 1950/1951.
  • Together with Paul Guyer: The street names of the city of Zurich, Zurich 1957, 3rd edition, ibid. 1999.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Zumbach in the obituary that appeared in the Zuger Nachrichten of December 1, 1958.
  2. ↑ Today, the instructions regarding the collection and spelling of the geographical names of the national surveying and official surveying in German-speaking Switzerland apply (instructions 2011), which in turn are based on instructions 1948 .
  3. ↑ See also Christoph Landolt : Almost as diverse as the field names: The spelling on the national maps. Federal rules and cantonal exceptions. In: Sprachspiegel 72 (2016), pp. 139–146 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Saladin, Guntram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lexicographer and place name researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Grellingen
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1958
Place of death Walchwil