Hans Walther (onomastics)

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Hans Walther (born January 30, 1921 in Oberfrohna ; † July 9, 2015 in Leipzig ) was a German name researcher .

Hans Walther passed his Abitur in 1939 and had to do compulsory service first in the Reich Labor Service and later as a soldier in the Wehrmacht in World War II . In 1944 he joined the NSDAP . In 1945/46 he took a course to become a new teacher and worked as such for a short time. In 1946 he began studying history , German and English at the University of Leipzig (from 1953 Karl Marx University). After completing his studies, he took up a position as a scheduled scientific aspirant. The doctoratetook place in September 1955 with Heinrich Sproemberg and Hellmut Kretzschmar with a thesis on the subject of the place and field names of the Rochlitz district. A contribution to the linguistic and settlement history of Western Saxony . In December 1968 he completed his habilitation with the work onenological contributions to the settlement history of the Saale / Elbe area up to the end of the 9th century . Reviewers were Karl Czok , Rudolf Große and Rudolf Fischer. In 1975 Walther became a lecturer and in 1978 professor for name research and settlement history at Karl Marx University. In 1986 he retired .

Walther did a great job researching settlement and field names, especially in the southern area of ​​the former GDR .

Fonts

  • with Ernst Eichler and Elisabeth Lea: The place names of the Leipzig district. Niemeyer, Halle 1960 (German-Slavic research on namology and settlement history, No. 8).
  • Name-based contributions to the settlement history of the Saale and Middle Elbe region up to the end of the 9th century. Academy, Berlin 1971 (German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history, No. 26).
  • Society development and name change. Uppsala universitet, Uppsala 1978 (Ortnamn och samhälle 3).
  • with Ernst Eichler: Investigations into place names and language and settlement history of the area between the Middle Saale and the Weisser Elster. Academy, Berlin 1984 (German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history, No. 35).
  • (Ed.): Name research in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1984). A research report. Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig 1984 (onenological information, item 45).
  • with Ernst Eichler: City name book of the GDR. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-323-00007-2 .
  • On naming and settlement history of Saxony and Thuringia. Selected articles 1953–1991. Reprint Verlag Leipzig im Zentralantiquariat, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-7463-1694-4 .
  • Small street encyclopedia of the city of Gotha. Including the suburbs Boilstädt, Siebleben, Sandhausen, Uelleben. Hain, Rudolstadt-Jena 1996, ISBN 3-930215-39-X .
  • Onomatology and historical regional studies. An introductory overview. Explanations of technical terms based on names. Selected bibliography on onomatology and regional studies of East Central Germany. With a short guide to the course and articles from East Thuringia and West Saxony. Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-935693-51-6 .
  • with Ernst Eichler: Alt-Leipzig and the Leipziger Land: a historical-geographical name book from the early days in the Elster-Pleißen-Land in the context of the history of language and settlement. Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86583-462-1

literature

  • Ernst Eichler (Ed.): Onomastica Slavogermanica. Hans Walther on his 70th birthday. Hirzel, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-05-001003-7 , ( Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class. Vol. 73, No. 2).
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 621-622.
  • Markus Cottin: A life dedicated to historical regional studies: Prof. Dr. habil. Hans Walther in memory (1923–2015). In: New Archive for Saxon History 87 (2016), pp. 289–292. ISSN  0944-8195

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personal data
SURNAME Walther, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German onomastics
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberfrohna
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2015
Place of death Leipzig