Hamburg dictionary

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The Hamburg Dictionary is a scientific dictionary of the dialects of Hamburg . Its coverage area essentially coincides with the current boundaries of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

type

The Hamburg Dictionary is a historical dictionary with collected material from the 13th to the 20th century, i.e. a period of eight centuries. The representation in the dictionary goes back to the 17th century only in exceptional cases , since the older documents are usually taken into account in the Middle Low German dictionary .

The keywords are arranged alphabetically. Information on grammar, meaning and chronological order are basic components of every article. If necessary, different forms of the keyword as well as geographical and stylistic markings are offered. Sentence examples illustrate the grammatical and semantic usage. Factual aspects are dealt with in more detail in the case of findings typical of the location. Diverse references make the vocabulary of subject complexes accessible. In terms of proper names, dialect-specific first names and - with restrictions - place names are entered as keywords in the dictionary. Hallway and street names are given under the (appellative) keywords from which they emerged and whose age and distribution they can provide information. Folklore interests are also taken into account with sayings, proverbs, rhymes and customs.

history

The office was founded in 1917 by Conrad Borchling and Agathe Lasch at the German Department (since 1919 German Department of the University) at the University of Hamburg . Detailed planning and organization of the collection was in the hands of Ms. Lasch, who, in addition to performing completely different duties and tasks, also collected and excerpted a lot herself, supported by only a few assistants. Even in the successor to Ms. Lasch (she was dismissed from civil service as a Jew in 1934), the job initially had no permanent academic position exclusively dedicated to the dictionary. This was only created in 1952 in the form of a scientific employee position and was filled with Käthe Scheel , who had already carried out extensive collection and order work in the years before as a freelancer on the dictionary or as an assistant at the Germanic seminar. In 1956 the dictionary began to be published. The publication of the Hamburg dictionary was completed in 2006 with the fifth volume.

Sources and material base

The archive material, now essentially a self-contained corpus, comprises almost a million scattered documents from eight centuries.

The various sources can be summarized in four groups:

  • Older dictionaries and word collections on common and technical terms. First and foremost, the idioticon Hamburgense by Michael Richey (1678–1761), the Holsteinische Idiotikon by JF Schütze (1800–1806), which also contains a lot of material from Hamburg, and extensive unprinted collections by GN Bärmann (around 1840 ), HPE Krage (around 1850) and especially C. Walther (second half of the 19th century)
  • Scientific literature, especially on history, local and folklore
  • Usual texts of the older time (including chronicles, legal and regulation texts, customs lists, pharmacopoeias, occasional poems), vernacular literature
  • Surveys by means of surveys in newspapers and magazines, questionnaires, direct interviews. Submissions from voluntary collectors (spontaneous material)

Publication status

Hamburg dictionary. On the basis of the preliminary work by Christoph Walther and Agathe Lasch ed. by Beate Hennig and Jürgen Meier. Edited by Beate Hennig, Jürgen Meier and Jürgen Ruge. Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-04603-5 :

  • Volume 1 (A-E) 1985
  • Volume 2 (F-K) 2000
  • Volume 3 (L-R) 2004
  • Volume 4 (S) 2005
  • Volume 5 (T – Z, supplements to A – S) 2006

literature

  • H. Kuhn: Foreword to the 1st delivery, 1956.
  • J. Meier: Foreword to Volume 1, 1985.
  • J. Meier: The Hamburg Dictionary . In: history, conception, use . Annual edition of the Klaus Groth Society, 1980, pp. 168–174.

Web links

  • Jürgen Meier: Hamburg Dictionary. Work report 2003 to 2006. In: slm.uni-hamburg.de. University of Hamburg, archived from the original on March 12, 2009 ; accessed on March 31, 2015 .