Hermann Dunger

Hermann Dunger (born April 2, 1843 in Plauen , † September 21, 1912 in Dresden ) was a German language purist , Germanist and teacher.

Life

Dunger studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig from 1861 to 1865 . Subsequently he was a teacher at the Thomas School in Leipzig and went to Dresden in 1866. There he worked as a teacher at the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium , and from 1885 he was vice rector and grammar school professor at the Wettiner Gymnasium .

As a result of the appeal sent by Herman Riegel at the end of August 1885 to found the General German Language Association (ADSV), he founded the first ADSV branch association in Dresden on September 10, 1885. Today this is considered the founding date of the ADSV.

Born in the Vogtland region, Dunger collected evidence of Vogtland dialects. He also endeavored to ensure a high quality of public language use and achieved merits as a promoter of the German written language. Dunger died in Dresden in 1912 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof .

Awards and honors

Dunger was knight 1st class of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit , knight 1st class of the Albrecht Order and knight of the House Order of the Wendish Crown .

Dungerstrasse in the Kaditz district of Dresden was named after Hermann Dunger in 1935.

Fonts

• The saga of the Trojan war in the medieval adaptations and its ancient sources . FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1869.
• About dialect and folk song of the Vogtland. A lecture given in Plauen on Jan. 3, 1870 . FE Neupert, Plauen 1870.
• Children's songs and children's games from the Vogtlande. Introduced by a lecture “On popular children's poetry” . FE Neupert, Plauen 1874.
• Rundâs and rhymes from the Vogtlande. With 22 Schnaderhüpfl melodies from Vogtland . FE Neupert, Plauen 1876.
• The Vogtland learned builder . FE Neupert, Plauen 1876.
• Dictys-Septimius. About the original composition and sources of the Ephemeris belli Troiani . BG Teubner , Leipzig 1878.
• Dictionary of German translations of dispensable foreign words with special consideration of the German translations accepted by the Great General Staff, in the postal system and in the Reich legislation. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1882.
• Foreign words in our language. On contemporary questions of Christian popular life . Gebr. Henninger, Heilbronn 1884.
• The language cleaning and its opponents. A response to the attacks by Gildemeister, Grimm, Rümelin and Delbrück . Albann'sche Buchdruckerei C. Teich, Dresden 1887.
• (with Ernst Lößnitzer :) German menu. Germanization of the dispensable foreign words commonly used in the kitchen and in the inn business . In: German translation books of the General German Language Association. 4th edition, F. Berggold, Berlin 1900.
• To sharpen the feeling for language . F. Berggold, Berlin 1906.
• Engländerei in the German language . 2nd edition, F. Berggold, Berlin 1909.
• The German Language Movement and the General German Language Association 1885-1910. Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the General German Language Association, September 10, 1910 . F. Berggold, Berlin 1910.

literature

• Helmut Bernsmeier: The General German Language Association in its founding phase. In: Mother tongue , 87th year 1977, pp. 369–395.
• Wolfgang Kleiber:  Dunger, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 197 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Müller: Hermann Dunger. Speech in memory of the co-founder of the General German Language Association, given at the Dresden branch. Book printing of the orphanage, Dresden 1912.

Web links

• Brigitte Emmrich: Dunger, Hermann . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Photo by Hermann Dunger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtblätter , No. 3 and 4, 1912, p. 235.
2. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 3.