Heinrich Dittmaier

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Heinrich Dittmaier (born October 22, 1907 in Cologne , † October 29, 1970 in Bonn ) was a German name researcher and dialectologist .

Life

Dittmaier attended primary school in Brussels from 1913 to 1918 , then in Cologne and Bad Godesberg until 1920 . In 1929 he passed his Abitur at the Humanist Gymnasium in Aschaffenburg and in the same year began studying German, history and folklore at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and received his doctorate in June 1940 on “The apa problem, investigations of a western European river name type ". From 1936 to 1940 he was employed as an employee at the Rhenish field name archive in the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland . Even during his studies, Dittmaier took part in the collection of the dialectic vocabulary of the Rhineland. He also collected Rhenish field names, which he later published in his field name book. In 1944 he married Maria Brockmans from Mettmann . In 1947 the daughter Edelgard was born. From 1946 he was given the task of editing the " Rhenish Dictionary ", which he continued as the successor to Josef Müller until the publication of the last three volumes VII to IX in 1964.

Fonts

  • The names of the waters in -apa. Dissertation Bonn, 1944.
  • (Hrsg.): Legends, fairy tales and Schwänke from the lower victory (= German people on the Rhine. 5). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1950.
  • The apa problem. Investigation of a western European river name type. International Center of Onomastics, Leuven, Belgium a. a. 1955.
  • Settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land (= magazine of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein. 74). Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
  • Rhenish field names. With the cooperation of P. Melchers on the basis of the material of the Rheinische field names archive founded by Adolf Bach . Röhrscheid, Bonn 1963.
  • The (H) lar names. Sighting and interpretation (= Low German studies. 10) Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1963, ISBN 978-3-412-24163-6 .
  • with Karl Guthausen , Rolf Bergmann : The settlement names of the Schleiden district (= Rheinisches Archiv. 63). With a foreword by Rudolf Schützeichel. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1967.
  • The place names on the left bank of the Rhine include -dorf and -heim. Linguistic and factual evaluation of the identifying words (= Rheinisches Archiv. 108). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-7928-0414-X .

Awards

In 1965 Heinrich Dittmaier received the Albert Steeger scholarship .

In Bonn, a street in the Ückesdorf district is named after him.

literature

  • Adolf Bach : Heinrich Dittmaier. (1907-1970) In: Onoma. Bull. D'information et de Bibliographie 16, 1971, pp. 218-224
  • Linker Niederrhein Association in Krefeld (ed.): Niederrheinisches Jahrbuch 1976. Volume XIII. Albert Steeger grant from the Rhineland Regional Council , Krefeld 1976
  • Matthias Zender: Dr. Heinrich Dittmaier † . Obituary in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. Announcements from the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Born 35 1971. Bonn
  • Matthias Zender: Foreword in The place names on the left bank of the Rhine on -dorf and -heim.

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personal data
SURNAME Dittmaier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German name researcher and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1970
Place of death Bonn