Hans Wanner

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Hans Wanner (born March 25, 1905 in Schaffhausen ; † July 7, 1996 in Hedingen ) was a Swiss linguist and lexicographer and fourth editor-in-chief of the Swiss Idiotikon .

Life and work

Wanner, a citizen of Schleitheim and the son of a canton school teacher, attended primary and canton schools in Schaffhausen and then studied German , English and antiquity in Zurich and London from 1924 to 1930 . In 1930 he received his doctorate under Albert Bachmann with a thesis on the acceptance of the communal German written language in Schaffhausen (printed in 1931). In the following years Wanner worked as a teacher for German and English at the commercial school of the commercial association and at the Athensäum private school in Zurich.

In 1942 Wanner was hired as an editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon , initially only on the basis of a work agreement because of the difficult times. In 1951 he was appointed editor-in-chief as the successor to Otto Gröger . In 1961 he initiated the normal alphabet volume registers, which since then have concluded every dictionary volume; that for the previously published volumes were completed in 1990. After his retirement in 1974, Peter Dalcher became his successor in the editor-in-chief , and Ruth Jörg took over the vacancy in the editorial office. Subsequently, Wanner devoted himself to the elaboration of the grammatical index of the idiot (up to volume XIII), which was continued for volume XIV by Kurt Meyer and can now be used online via the institute's homepage.

In addition, Wanner gave introductory courses in the use of the dictionary at the University of Zurich and worked as a philological assistant in the publication of the works of Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger . In 1943 he was a co-founder of the Zürcher Sprachverein and its first chairman. From 1952 to 1958 he was chairman of the German-speaking Swiss Language Association (today: Swiss Association for the German Language ), for which he was able to attract young people. From 1958 to 1962 he finally presided over the school administration of his place of residence Hedingen.

Honors

In 1967, Wanner's 25th anniversary as editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon was celebrated with three articles by Peter Dalcher, Kurt Meyer and Rudolf Trüb dedicated to him .

In 1973 Wanner received an honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich for his work .

Selected publications

Swiss Idioticon

Wanner published primarily in the context of this national dictionary. In volumes 11, 12, 13 and 14 he worked, among other things, the weighty word families (each basic word with all compounds and derivatives) of stink, Sturm / stürmen, Strāff / strāffen ('Strafe, strafen '), Strāss ('Strasse') , Day, part, do ('do'), thank / thank / thank ('think'), dunken ('think'), tǖr ('expensive'), dörfen / tören ('may'), turn ('tower ') and trīben ( ' lift ') lexicographically.

Monographs
  • The inclusion of the New High German written language in the city of Schaffhausen. Dissertation University of Zurich, Immensee 1931.
  • Where does our German come from? A short guide to the history of German language for higher schools in Switzerland. Frauenfeld and Leipzig 1943 (reprinted several times).
Essays
  • From our soldier's language. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore 42 (1945) 179–192; slightly expanded in: Sprachspiegel 3 (1947) 101–109 and 122–128 ( digitized 1st part , digitized 2nd part ).
  • Dog names from the early 16th century. In: Contributions to linguistics and folklore. Festschrift for Ernst Ochs for his 60th birthday, ed. by Karl Friedrich Müller , Lahr (Black Forest) 1951, pp. 219–223.
  • Dialect research and dialect maintenance. In: Sprachspiegel 13 (1957) 65-79 ( digitized version ).
  • The so-called historical material in regional dialect dictionaries. In: Journal for Dialect Research 27 (1960) 129-143.
  • The relationship between the Brothers Grimm, their dictionary and the Swiss German dialect lexicography. In: Brothers Grimm Commemoration 1963. Commemorative publication for the hundredth anniversary of the death of Jacob Grimm, Marburg 1963 (=  Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde 54), pp. 435–450.
  • Word pairs of the type ‹recken: straighten› in Swiss German. In: Language life in Switzerland. Linguistics, name research. Folklore [= Festschrift Rudolf Hotzenköcherle ], ed. by Paul Zinsli u. a., Bern 1963, pp. 133-140.
  • "There a man comes running in full haste." In: Sprachspiegel 22 (1966) 43-46 [via the Swiss-German equivalents of the standard German construction he comes running ] ( digitized version ).
  • Swiss Idioticon / Dictionary of the Swiss German Language. In: Dialect Lexicography. Ceremony for Luise Berthold on her 85th birthday. = Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics, Supplements, N. F. 17 (1976) 11–24.
Editing
  • Georg Wanner: The dialects of the canton of Schaffhausen. Phonology and form theory. Frauenfeld 1941 (contributions to Swiss German grammar XX) [= work by Hans Wanner's father] ( digitized version ).
  • [Together with Paul Zinsli u. a .:] Language life in Switzerland. Linguistics, name research, folklore. [= Festschrift Rudolf Hotzenköcherle]. Bern 1963.

literature

  • Peter Dalcher: Service to language. Hans Wanner died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 158 of July 10, 1996, p. 38.
  • Peter Dalcher: Hans Wanner. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1983–1984.
  • hh .: In honor of dialect research. In: Badener Tagblatt, June 20, 1975, p. 9 (an article on the resignation as editor-in-chief).
  • Kurt Meyer: Hans Wanner on the eightieth. In: Sprachspiegel 41, 1985, p. 2 f.
  • Kurt Meyer: In memory of Dr. Hans Wanner. In: Sprachspiegel 52, 1996, p. 150 f.
  • Peter Ott: Wanner, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Hans Wanner: 32 years on the Swiss German dictionary. [With bibliography.] In: Swiss German Dictionary. Report on 1974, Zurich 1975, pp. 16–30.

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proof

  1. ↑ In: Swiss German Dictionary. Report on the year 1967. Zurich [1968], pp. 31–73.
personal data
SURNAME Wanner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Germanist and editor-in-chief of the Swiss Idiotikon
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1996
Place of death Hedingen