Hermann Reichert

Hermann Reichert (born April 7, 1944 in Pernitz , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian Germanic and Scandinavian medievalist , linguist and name researcher .

Reichert studied at the University of Vienna and was there in 1971 when Otto Hofler with the thesis "The playback of the media and wulfilanischen Tenuen in late East Germanic" doctorate . There he completed his habilitation in 1984 under Helmut Birkhan for older German and Nordic philology with the work " Lexicon of Old Germanic Names ". Until his retirement in 2009, he was an associate professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna, where he continues to work in teaching and research.

Reichert's scientific work focuses on the Middle High German and Scandinavian literatures of the High Middle Ages in the context of the Nibelung poetry as well as works in the area of ​​old Germanic name research , runology and Germanic antiquity. In addition to numerous articles in periodicals and series of publications, he has written numerous articles for the second edition of the Reallexikons der Germanischen Altertumskunde as co-editor . Reichert's habilitation thesis was published as the first volume of the two-part “Lexicon of Old Germanic Names”, which is considered a standard scientific work (Vol. 1: Text, 1987; Vol. 2: Register, compiled by Robert Nedoma and Hermann Reichert, 1990). He was also the editor of the old Germanist series “ Philologica Germanica ”.

Publications (selection)

• Reproduction of the Wilhelminian media and Tenuen in late East Germanic. Vienna 1971, (dissertation University of Vienna 1971, advisor Otto Höfler)
• Nibelungenlied and Nibelungen saga (= Böhlau study books ). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-205-08376-8 (cardboard) / ISBN 3-205-98376-9 (Pp).
• Lexicon of old Germanic personal names. Part 1: Text / EDP. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0931-8 (Habilitation thesis University of Vienna 1987, 843 pages).
• Walther von der Vogelweide for beginners. WUV-Universitäts-Verlag, 3rd, revised and expanded edition. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7089-0548-8 .
• Heroic saga and reconstruction: Investigations into the Thidrek saga. Fassbaender, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900538-34-4 .
• "Lie" and "talk to yourself", two communication models. Edition. Praesens, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7069-0035-1 .
• Wolfram von Eschenbach , Parzival for beginners. Praesens Verlag, Vienna, 3rd, completely revised edition 2017. ISBN 978-3-7069-0915-0 .
• Concordance to the Nibelungenlied after the St. Gallen manuscript. Volume 1: AM. , Volume 2: NZ. (= Philologica Germanica. 27/1 and 27/2), Vienna 2006. ISBN 978-3-900538-96-5 .
• Wolfram von Eschenbach , Parzival. Volume 1: Text. 520 pages, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-7069-1016-3 . E-book (pdf): ISBN 978-3-7069-3008-6 .
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival. Volume 2: Investigations. 397 pages, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-7069-1017-0 . E-book (pdf): ISBN 978-3-7069-3009-3 .
• The Nibelungenlied. Based on the St. Gallen manuscript. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-089545-2 ; 2nd edition ibid 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-052421-5 ; (PDF) e- ISBN 978-3-11-052654-7 .
• Nibelungenlied textbook. Linguistic commentary, Middle High German grammar, dictionary. Matches the text of the St. Gallen version ("B"). Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2nd, revised and expanded edition. 2019. ISBN 978-3-7069-1051-4 . E-book (pdf) ISBN 978-3-7069-3010-9 .
• Love. A lecture. Facultas, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-7089-2022-1 . Revised version of the lecture first published in 2010 and given since 1986.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Reichert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Hermann Reichert in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Website at the University of Vienna

References and sources

1. ↑ "Entry in the Erlangen Germanist Directory"
2. ↑ Part 2: Register - created by Robert Nedoma and Hermann Reichert, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1718-3 .