Hans Eggers (linguist)

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Hans Eggers (born July 9, 1907 in Hamburg ; † May 31, 1988 in Saarbrücken ) was a German linguist .

life and work

Eggers graduated from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg in September 1925 . He then studied German, history and ancient languages ​​in Hamburg and Munich. From 1947 he was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg. In 1953 he qualified as a professor in Germanic Philology . From 1960 he was Professor of Germanic and German Philology at the Saarland University . In 1972 Eggers co-founded the Collaborative Research Center "Electronic Language Research".

Egger's area of ​​work was the history of German language ( Old High German , Middle High German , Early New High German and New High German ), to which he contributed extensive presentations. He also used computers for language analysis ( morphology and syntax ), which led to the co-founding of the Collaborative Research Center 100 ("Electronic Language Research") in 1972. In this Collaborative Research Center, interdisciplinary problems in linguistics were dealt with using methods from the then still young computer science . Work was also carried out on automatic translation systems.

Publications (selection)

  • Complete Latin-Old High German dictionary for the Old High German Isidore translation, Berlin 1960.
  • Hugo Wehrle: German vocabulary. A guide to the appropriate expression. 7th edition (from A. Schiessings' appropriate expression ), Stuttgart 1940; 12th edition, edited by Hans Eggers, ibid 1961.
  • German History of Language, four volumes, Reinbek 1963–1977; new edition in two volumes, 1986.
  • SALEM: a procedure for the automatic lemmatization of German texts, Tübingen 1980.

literature

  • Festschrift for Hans Eggers on his 65th birthday, Tübingen 1972.
  • Languages ​​and computers: Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Hans Eggers, AQ-Verlag, Dudweiler 1982, ISBN 978-3-922441-27-4 .

Awards

  • Duden Prize, 1972.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg, 1881-1981, Höwer Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-922995-00-4 , p. 286. (Abitur class " Michaelis 1925 / Class MIa (Ferber)")
  2. Short biography