Hugo Jedig

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Hugo Jedig ( Russian Гуго Гугович Едиг / Hugo Hugowitsch Jedig ; born September 8, 1920 in Losowaja , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ; † October 11, 1991 in Cologne ) was a Russian-German historian and an important linguist of Volga-German dialects.

Life

Hugo Jedig came from a Volhyn German family. In the Volga German Republic he completed a teacher training and then worked for two years as a teacher and proofreader for the German-Soviet newspaper Nachrichten , where he finally became aware of the writings of the dialect researchers Georg Dinges and Andrei Dulson .

After deportation and a labor camp , Jedig met Professor Dulson in the Siberian city ​​of Tomsk and began to study the dialect of the Soviet Germans intensively. In 1961 he did his doctorate on the Low German dialects of the Altai region . As a professor at the University of Education in Omsk , he suggested that the variations of the German dialects in the post-war Soviet Union should be scientifically recorded. He also took the opportunity to interview students from the German-speaking islands and to send employees to the more distant regions of the country to complete his maps. In his research he found, among other things, that seven dialect types were detectable in the Soviet Union in the post-war period: Palatine, Hessian, South Franconian, Swabian, Bavarian, Wolhynian German and Platt. There were also numerous mixed dialects of various types.

Particularly in the areas of Omsk and the Altai, numerous voice recordings were made under Jedig's instructions and a Soviet German dialect corpus was compiled.

Publications (selection)

  • German dialects in the Soviet Union. History of research and bibliography. Marburg: Elwert, 1991, with Nina Berend.
  • The German language culture in the Soviet Union . In: Fleischhauer, Ingeborg / Hugo Jedig (ed.): The Germans in the USSR in the past and present: an international contribution to German-Soviet understanding. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1990.
  • The German dialects in the Soviet Union. In: Uhlisch, Gerda (ed.): The word. Germanistic Yearbook GDR-USSR, 1986.
  • Low German in the Altai region. Omsk. Volume 1: Phonetics and Morphology. Volume 2: Syntax, both 1971.
  • Sound and form inventory of the Low German dialect of the Altai region. Meeting reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, philosophical-historical class, vol. 112, issue 5, Berlin, 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Nina Berend and Ulrich Tolksdorf [1]
personal data
SURNAME Anyone, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jedig, Hugo Hugowitsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German historian and important linguist of Volga-German dialects
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Losovaya , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1991
Place of death Cologne