Hermann Teuchert

Herman Teuchert (1964)

Hermann August Teuchert (born March 3, 1880 in Loppow in the Landsberg district (Warthe) , † January 13, 1972 in Heidelberg ) was a German German philologist and dialectologist . His main work was on the Mecklenburg Dictionary , but also in the context of his collaboration on the German Dictionary he placed particular emphasis on sociological, dialectological and subject-cultural references.

Live and act

Hermann Teuchert, born as a farmer's son, was a pupil of Sigmund Feist in therichheim orphanage and attended grammar school in Landesberg and Joachimsthal grammar school in Berlin. He studied classical philology , history and German in Strasbourg and Berlin . His academic teachers include Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Karl Julius Neumann, Wilhelm Schulze , Erich Schmidt and Gustav Roethe . His interest in German grammar and German dialects was aroused early on. He received his doctorate in 1907 in Berlin with a theory of phonetics and inflection in the Neumark dialect . In the same year Teuchert worked as an assistant at the Rhenish Dictionary in Bonn. This is where the first contact with the Dutch language arose. It was not until decades later that the philological studies that opened up new territory and that looked at the linguistic relics of the Dutch settlements in Germany found their culmination in his book The Language Remnants of the Dutch Settlements .

From 1910 to 1920 Hermann Teuchert worked as a senior teacher in Berlin. In addition to his educational activity, he devoted himself to scientific work. Together with Wilhelm Seelmann , he laid the foundation for a Brandenburg dictionary . Since 1913 he was co-editor, since 1919 sole editor of the magazine for German dialects, the later Teuthonista , to which all leading dialect researchers were closely related.

Appointed to the University of Rostock in 1919, Teuchert took up his lectures and exercises on Low German literature and grammar, Dutch, phonetics, folklore and dialect studies there in 1920 as a full professor of Low German. Long before he took up the chair for German language and older German literature from 1934, he extended the field of his lectures to the entire field of German literature and linguistics.

Gustav Roethe had already won him over in 1920 to work on the German dictionary founded by the Brothers Grimm . In over 30 years of work, he wrote the 15th volume of this largest German linguistic company. He broke new ground here by assigning the facts to their appropriate place in the presentation of the linguistic material, by using the dialects more extensively and thereby tracing the spatial validity and the social language stratification.

All his love and most of his labor was then for the Mecklenburg dictionary , the Wossidlo / Teuchert. Shortly before Teuchert's death at the age of 92 in 1972, the Saxon Academy of Sciences took over the editing of the dialect dictionaries in the GDR and, in agreement with Teuchert, settled all fundamental questions regarding the continuation of the Mecklenburg dictionary. In a publisher's announcement issued to the recipients after Teuchert's death, it says: “He worked energetically and tirelessly on the completion of the work into old age, and he was allowed to see the delivery of the 50th delivery. The dictionary will be continued in the way he planned it and how it is shaped by his handwriting. ”In those years, there was a Mecklenburg Dictionary in Rostock-Warnemünde under the direction of Jürgen Gundlach to process the deliveries .

Works

Phonology and inflection theory of the Neumark dialect , phil. Diss., Berlin 1907.
Mecklenburg dictionary .
Brandenburg-Berlin dictionary .
Low German dialects , 1933.
The Mecklenburg-speaking area , 1929.
The language remnants of the Dutch settlements of the 12th century, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1944; 2nd edition with portrait photo, biography and list of publications, ed. by Reinhold Olesch and Ludwig Erich Schmitt (= Central German Research , Volume 70), Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, Vienna 1970.

Awards

1954 Brothers Grimm Prize from the Philipps University of Marburg
1955 Corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin
1964 Jost van den Vondel Prize from the University of Münster
1970 Dr. hc from the University of Rostock
Honorary member of the Association for Low German Language Research

Web links

Literature by and about Hermann Teuchert in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Hermann Teuchert in the state bibliography MV
Works by Hermann Teuchert in the state bibliography MV
Hermann Teuchert in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
Entry on Hermann Teuchert in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

↑ Not: March 13, 1880, as it is sometimes called in the literature.
↑ cf. Jörg Riecke: Sabine Hank and Hermann Simon (eds.): Field post letters from Jewish soldiers 1914–1918. Teetz 2002. Review in the Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger, February 25, 2005.
↑ On the life and work of Hermann Teuchert cf. Jürgen Gundlach's publications in North German Lighthouse. Weekend supplement of the Norddeutsche Zeitung. Schwerin, No. 356 of March 5, 1960 and No. 978 of February 1, 1972.

personal data
SURNAME	Teuchert, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teuchert, Hermann August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Loppow
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1972
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Not: March 13, 1880, as it is sometimes called in the literature.

[2] . Jörg Riecke: Sabine Hank and Hermann Simon (eds.): Field post letters from Jewish soldiers 1914–1918. Teetz 2002. Review in the Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger, February 25, 2005.

[3] On the life and work of Hermann Teuchert cf. Jürgen Gundlach's publications in North German Lighthouse. Weekend supplement of the Norddeutsche Zeitung. Schwerin, No. 356 of March 5, 1960 and No. 978 of February 1, 1972.