Jürgen Gundlach

Jürgen Gundlach (born January 15, 1926 in Plau am See ; † December 3, 2014 in Wismar ) was a German philologist and dialectologist . After Hermann Teuchert's death , he took over the editing of the Mecklenburg dictionary .

Live and act

In 1932 the parents moved to Wismar . Jürgen Gundlach graduated from high school here in 1944 and was then drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was captured in Schleswig-Holstein, from which he was released in the winter of 1946. At the University of Rostock he began studying German, history and philosophy and passed the state examination in the 1950/51 winter semester with a thesis on Fritz Reuter's High German writings. His dissertation was written by the Dr. phil. Gundlach did his doctorate on the comic in the work of Wilhelm Busch . From 1952 to 1954 Gundlach worked as a lecturer for German and history at a technical school in Ribnitz-Damgarten .

In 1954 Gundlach became Professor Hermann Teuchert's research assistant at the Mecklenburg Dictionary in the Rostock-Warnemünde branch of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin ; In 1965 he became its head. On March 1, 1991, Gundlach retired and moved back to Wismar. He found his final resting place in Warin .

Gundlach translated the 1993 constitution of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania into Low German. Article 16 of these expressly gives the state the task of protecting and promoting the Low German language. The translation gave Gundlach a headache. "Plattdütsch is no longer a legal practice," said Gundlach at the time. Accordingly, his translation was also a little freer. Gundlach took the Platt Fritz Reuters as the benchmark for the translation. Terms such as “data protection”, “opposition” or “management”, which were not yet known to Reuters, were used unchanged in his translation.

Jürgen Gundlach was committed to the preservation of St. Mary's Church in Wismar by protesting - in vain - against Otto Grotewohl, then Prime Minister of the GDR, against the demolition of the nave and calling it a "cultural disgrace".

In 1990 Gundlach became a member of the Fritz Reuter Society , of which he was a member of the board from 1991 to 1994 as one of two deputies to the president.

Awards

• 1991 Culture Prize of the Hanseatic City of Rostock (together with Christoph Krummacher )
• 1993 Mecklenburg Culture Prize of the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft
• 1994 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2002 Letter of Honor from the Fritz Reuter Society

Fonts

• The comic in the work of Wilhelm Busch with special consideration of the Viten . Diss. 1954
• Mecklenburg Dictionary, Vol. 5 . Berlin 1970 (collaboration)
• Mecklenburg Dictionary, Vol. 6 . Berlin 1976 (Head)
• Mecklenburg Dictionary, Vol. 7 . Berlin 1992 (Head)
• From Aant to Zäg ' . Leipzig 1984
• Vorlöpige allowance of the country Mäkelborg-Vbodommern. Int Plattdüütsche oewersett't. Schwerin 1994

literature

• Communications from the Fritz Reuter Society. No. 69 (2011), p. 10.

Web links

• Literature about Jürgen Gundlach in the state bibliography MV

• Works by Jürgen Gundlach in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

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