Hans Bahlow

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Hans Bahlow (born November 21, 1900 in Liegnitz , † December 16, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German name researcher .

Life

The son of a pastor studied German, theology and Semitic languages . In 1923 he received his doctorate at the University of Jena with the thesis Studies on the oldest history of Liegnitz family names . From 1927 to 1950 he worked at the Rostock University Library .

Bahlow wrote, among other things, the German Name Lexicon - family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning and was a lecturer for name research and manuscript studies at the University of Hamburg .

criticism

Bahlow's interpretations of the content of the river and place names in Germany, which he almost invariably leads back to "water", "swamp" or "moor", are generally rejected in science today. The reason for this is the fact that many of his cited roots of words referring to wetlands are completely unfounded and are suspected to have been invented by Bahlow.

Works (selection)

  • Silesian name book , Kitzingen 1953.
  • Germany's geographical world of names - Etymological lexicon of river and place names of old European origin , Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1965; Suhrkamp Tb 1221, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-37721-3 .
  • German dictionary of names. Family and first names explained according to origin and meaning , Keyser, Munich 1967; Suhrkamp Tb 65, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-518-06565-3 .
  • Low German Name Book , Wiesbaden 1972; Sand Reprint, 1987, ISBN 978-3-253-02530-3 .

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Dr. phil. Hans Bahlow died. (Obituary). In: Genealogy. German magazine for family studies. Volume 16, Volume 32, Issue 5, May 1983, ISSN  0016-6383 , pp. 557/558.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bahlow, Hans . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 25.
  2. ^ Paul Derks : The castle, place and field name Altena (PDF; 696 kB) . Essen Linguistic Scripts - electronic. Issue 1, 2000. Page 102.
  3. ↑ Arno Ruoff: The wide field of place and field names . in: Ulrich Sieber (Ed.): Place Name Research in Southwest Germany. A balance sheet. Stuttgart, 2000. ISBN 3-926269-31-6 (PDF; 430 kB) page 21.
  4. ^ Paul Derks: The settlement names of the city Sprockhövel , Hagen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8196-0760-8 , p. 23

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personal data
SURNAME Bahlow, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German name researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1982
Place of death Hamburg