Jost Nickel (Linguist)
Jost Nickel (born November 4, 1968 in Dernbach (Westerwald) ; † January 11, 2009 in Hamburg ) was a system developer and research assistant at the Philipps University of Marburg (Research Center for the German Language Atlas) and was involved in the development of the digital edition of Georg Wenker's German Language Atlas Reichs (" Digitaler Wenker Atlas ", DiWA ) was decisively involved. Nickel is therefore considered a pioneer in digitized language research .
Life and education
Jost Nickel grew up in Selters in the Westerwald , where he also attended elementary school. After graduating from the Martin-Butzer-Gymnasium in Dierdorf , he studied phonetics , linguistic data processing and German studies at the University of Trier from 1991 to 1999 .
From 2001 to 2009, Nickel was a research assistant at the Research Center for the German Language Atlas in Marburg . There he was responsible for the development of geographic information systems and web applications.
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Nickel dealt with the processing and interpretation of linguistic geographical data, in particular by computer programs. His life's work is the digital processing and online provision of the language atlas of the German Reich under the project name Digitaler Wenker Atlas ( DiWA for short ). In doing so, he put language cards , sound recordings, literature sources and the results of empirical surveys at different time levels in a direct relationship to one another. The result is a generally accessible and recognized research tool that allows linguists, for example, to compare and assign dialects geographically and chronologically. This hitherto unique achievement is considered a “technical revolution in linguistic geography” and made Nickel a sought-after cooperation partner.
The digital Wenker Atlas , which was the largest language atlas in the world in 2009, also prepares the information so that it is also accessible to interested laypeople.
Nickel designed and implemented the Digital Luxembourg Language Atlas ( LuxSA for short ). He was involved in the projects Information System Linguistic Geography ( ISSG for short ) and the Atlas of Late Medieval Writing Languages of the Eastern Low German region (for which he created a digital atlas as a supplement). Due to his early death, he was no longer able to complete his collaboration in the project database of Bavarian dialects in Austria electronically mapped ( dbo @ ema for short ), for which data from an existing database (DBÖ) had to be converted.
Publications (selection)
- Jost Nickel with Alfred Lameli and Roland Kehrein: Possibilities of computer-aided regional language research using the example of the digital Wenker atlas. Published in: Georg Braungart et al. (Ed.): Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 7 , 2005, pages 149-170.
- Jost Nickel: The Information System Linguistic Geography: A cartography program for variation linguistics. Published in: Research Institute for the German Language, Deutscher Sprachatlas, Stephan Elspaß, Werner König (Hrsg.): Germanistische Linguistik 190-191 , Georg Olms Verlag 2008
- Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Jost Nickel: dbo @ ema. The database of Bavarian dialects in Austria (DBÖ) on the way to the Internet. Published in: Heinz Dieter Pohl (Hrsg.): Files from the 10th workshop for Bavarian-Austrian dialectology (Klagenfurt, September 19-22, 2007). Klagenfurt Contributions to Linguistics 24-26 (2008-2010). praesens 2010, pages 458-471.
Memberships
- International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS) (2000: Fellow)
- International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
- International Society for Dialectology of German (IGDD)
- Society for Classification (GfKl)
- Forum language variation
- Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance
- NAVTEQ Network for Developers
Web links
- Publications by Jost Nickel
- Projects by Jost Nickel (overview)
- Funeral speech by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Erich Schmidt (Director Research Center of the German Language Atlas )
- Digital Wenker Atlas (DiWA)
- Digital Luxembourg language atlas
- Database of Bavarian dialects in Austria (DBÖ)
- From Wenkerbogen to Cyberspace? Thoughts and data on dialectology by Wolfgang Naeser
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~naeser/dialect.htm
- ^ A b Jürgen Erich Schmidt: Funeral speech
- ↑ cf. Jost Nickel: The Information System Linguistic Geography: A cartography program for variation linguistics. 2005
- ↑ http://www.diwa.info
- ^ Research Center for the German Language Atlas
- ↑ http://www.luxsa.info
- ↑ http://wboe.oeaw.ac.at/projekt/haben
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nickel, Jost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German system developer of the German Language Atlas |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th November 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dernbach (Westerwald) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 2009 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |