Jürgen Udolph

Jürgen Udolph (2012)

Jürgen Udolph (born February 6, 1943 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German onomastics ( onomastics ). He was a professor at the University of Leipzig .

Life

science

In 1978 Udolph received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen . The topic of the dissertation was studies on Slavic water names and water names . Hence the main interest of his further work also lies here. In 1990 he completed his habilitation with the thesis The position of the names of waters in Poland within the old European hydronymy . In 2000 he was offered the professorship for onomastics at the University of Leipzig , where he was the head of the name advice center of the Society for onomastics e. V. was. In 2008 he retired .

At the University of Münster , he headed the place-names department , which, as a long-term project, place names between the Rhine and Elbe - onomastics in Europe, recorded and explained place names in this area. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen elected Udolph in the meeting on January 27, 2006 as a corresponding member of the Philological-Historical Class.

Since March 2011 Udolph has headed his own Prof. Udolph Center for Name Research in Leipzig.

media

From 1999 to 2011 Udolph had a broadcast on Radio Eins in Berlin; his rubric was called Numen Nomen Name . In 2005 a broadcast on Stern TV followed . In September 2005, the book Professor Udolph's Book of Names was published by C. Bertelsmann in collaboration with Sebastian Fitzek . Since 2006 he has hosted a program on the radio station NDR 1 Lower Saxony entitled Der Namenforscher . In the same year he had two programs on ZDF Germany - your names and a program on Johannes B. Kerner , which was broadcast a second time in 2007.

Since January 2, 2008 he has been explaining family names every morning in SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate . On SWR Fernsehen Rheinland-Pfalz he can be seen in the show name researcher , here he is with presenter Jens Hübschen in a place in the broadcasting area and explains the origin of place names and surnames.

On the occasion of the State Horticultural Show Oranienburg 2009, the city, the organizer and Jürgen Udolph and his team carried out a joint research study that provides information on the origin, distribution and accumulation as well as the meaning of the city's last names. The aim is to clarify tolerance and openness to the world in the past and present of Oranienburg. Since 2011, Antenne Brandenburg has broadcast the program Examen für Namen . out

With the title “Your name please!” - name researcher Udolph explains it, there is another program with him on MDR Thuringia .

Private

Udolph has been married since 1971 and has four children. He has been a member of Wingolf in Göttingen and Heidelberg since 1964 .

Fonts (selection)

chronologically

• Studies on Slavic water names and water names. A contribution to the question of the original home of the Slavs. Winter, Heidelberg 1979, ISBN 3-533-02818-6 .
• Tributaries to the lower Elbe. From Seege and Stecknitz to the mouth. Volume 16 of the Hydronymia Germaniae . Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05741-2 .
• The position of the water names of Poland within the old European hydronymy. Winter, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-533-04326-6 .
• Onomatological studies on the Germanic problem. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes, Volume 9.) Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014138-8 .
• Easter, story of a word. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0866-9 .
• Nations names, country names, landscape names. Minutes of the conference in autumn 2003. Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937209-20-4 (with Ernst Eichler and Heinrich Tiefenbach, among others ).
• with Sebastian Fitzek : Professor Udolph's Book of Names. Where do they come from, what they mean. Bertelsmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-570-00879-7 (2007 as paperback by Goldmann Munich, ISBN 978-3-442-15428-9 ).
• The place names Hall, Halle, Hallein, Hallstatt and the salt. Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-89534-866-2 .
• Martinus Luder - Eleutherius - Martin Luther. Why did Martin Luther change his name? (Indo-European Library. Third series: Investigations), Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6640-7 , OCLC 957715434 .

literature

• Karlheinz Hengst , Dietlind Krüger (Hrsg.): Family names in German. Research and Reference. German surnames in the German-speaking area. Jürgen Udolph on his 65th birthday. Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-392-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Udolph in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Udolph on the website of the project "Place names between the Rhine and Elbe"
• Ingo Wolff: The surname puzzle. The name researcher Udolph made it to television via Radio Eins. Tagesspiegel , February 20, 2006.
• Sebastian Leber: Riddle of the nun maker. Tagesspiegel, October 28, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Udolph - Center for Name Research
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. phil. Jürgen Udolph SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate, people broadcast from December 30, 2007.