Gustav Hey

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Karl Friedrich Gustav Hey (born January 2, 1847 in Penig ; † August 15, 1916 in Döbeln ) was a German Slavist , place name and settlement researcher. In 1893 his main work The Slavic Settlements in the Kingdom of Saxony with an explanation of their names was published in the Royal Saxon Court Publishing House Wilhelm Baensch in Dresden . It became a popular reference work for homeland and place name researchers as well as for the city history associations that were founded in many Saxon towns in the second half of the 19th century.

Life

Gustav Hey's tomb in the Niederfriedhof in Döbeln

Hey, born as the son of a printer and mayor, began studying philology at the University of Leipzig in 1856 after attending high school in Dessau . He finished this in 1869 and then worked as a private tutor until 1871 , then as a teacher at the Realgymnasium in Döbeln until his retirement in 1911 . In recent years he has also worked as vice-principal . Gustav Hey found his final resting place in the Niederfriedhof in Döbeln.

influence

With the choice of topics for his research and with his decidedly Slav-friendly attitude, Hey had a decisive influence on non-academic Slavic studies in Germany. His great merit consists in the systematic recording and interpretation of the Slavic place names in large parts of Germany. Starting with the exploration of the Döbeln area , the investigations gradually covered the entire Kingdom of Saxony ; they later expanded to other German regions, such as Upper Franconia , the Duchy of Anhalt and the Elbe and East Sea Slavic areas. His main work The Slavic settlements in the Kingdom of Saxony with an explanation of their names , published in 1893, had a great influence on the development of Slavic onomatology in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century .

plant

The main work of his previous long-term studies of local , hallway and family name brought him into contact with Sorbian researchers explored the altsorbische settlement areas with the same objective. A particularly friendly relationship developed with the Sorbian researcher Ernst Mucke, in Sorbian Arnošt Muka , (1854–1932), which prompted him to transfer his scientific legacy to the Sorbian scientific society Maćica Serbska .

For a long time, Hey's work was the only complete, comprehensive work on the place names of Saxony, even if it can no longer be regarded as a fully valid reference work due to the new findings in Slavic onomatology. (In 2001 this gap was closed by the three-volume "Historical Book of Place Names of Saxony", in the publication of which the Leipzig Slavist Ernst Eichler was notably involved.) In the extensive afterword to the 1981 reprint, Ernst Eichler gives a detailed appreciation of Hey's scientific life's work . He characterizes him as "an outstanding representative of those progressive-minded bourgeois intellectuals ... who tried to do justice to the Slavic part of the history of the German people and who especially the Slavic names, especially the place names, as valuable witnesses of the past, which to the Must be brought to speak, look at. "

Publications

  • About the Slavic name Berlin . In: Archives for the Study of Modern Languages . 37, Vol. 69, Braunschweig 1883, pp. 201-206.
  • The Slavic settlements in the Kingdom of Saxony with an explanation of their names . Dresden 1893; Reprint: Böhlau Verlag Cologne Vienna 1981 (with an afterword by Ernst Eichler and a list of Saxony place names that can be explained differently today).
  • For place name research . In: German history sheets . Volume 2, Gotha 1901, pp. 121-131.
  • with Karl Schulze: The settlements in Anhalt. Villages and desert areas with an explanation of their names . Hall 1905.
  • with A. Ziegelhöfer: The place names of the former bishopric Bamberg . Bamberg 1911.
  • with A. Ziegelhöfer: The place names of the former principality of Bayreuth . Bayreuth 1920.

Sources and literature

  • Gustav Hey's estate in the Sorbian Culture Archive in Bautzen.
  • E. Eichler: Gustav Hey's contribution to Slavic name research . In: Lětopis . Series A, Volume 27. 1980, pp. 37-46. ZDB ID 220704-7
  • E. Eichler and E. Hoffmann: The correspondence between Gustav Hey and Ernst Mucke . In: Lětopis . Series A, Volume 30. 1983, pp. 153-165. ZDB ID 220704-7
  • Slavic Studies in Germany from the Beginnings to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Bautzen 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Schmidt: Digital Historical Directory of Saxony - Project . Hov.isgv.de. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Hey, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hey, Karl Friedrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, place name and settlement researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Penig
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1916
Place of death Chub