Lexicon of old Germanic names

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The lexicon of old Germanic names (LaN I, LaN II) is a scientific reference work in two volumes on the historical treasure trove of names of persons, peoples and gods of Germanic origin.

It was developed by Hermann Reichert based on his habilitation thesis at the University of Vienna , edited by Helmut Birkhan in the Thesaurus Palaeogermanicus series published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1987 and 1990. The work is the scientific standard in the follow-up to the 1911 publication "Dictionary of Old Germanic Persons and Völkernames" by Moritz Schönfeld . The lexicon is conceptually designed as a material basis by listing all references and readings for a name. Furthermore, the lexicon serves as an interdisciplinary aid for all sciences that research sub-areas or generally research on old Germanic culture and cultures, as well as on those cultures that were in contact with Germanic. The text volume (LaN I) shows about 3000 names with 26,000 references with a recording period from the 4th century BC. BC to the 6th century AD (names from runic inscriptions of the older Futhark are included up to the 7th century ), the register volume (LaN II) in collaboration with Robert Nedoma contains an etymological register based on the roots of the names Supplements, corrections and a job register.

Reichert began working on the lexicon with the collection of documents in 1973, which he completed in 1983 [Habilitation 1984]. Only with the use of the then developing IT options for collecting, organizing and managing the document locations and a strictly categorized lemma structure was it possible to conclude and ultimately go to print of the project.

Lemma structure

  • the lemma in capital letters
  • the indication of whether a name is Germanic (in connection with the font size of the lemma) or not or possibly a hybrid formation
  • the separation of different bearers of the name by counting such as Theoderic 1 etc.
  • Abbreviation for the genus of names (“P” for personal name, “V” for national name, “T” for names of animals, “S” for names of things, “G” for geographical names). Additions for surnames and mythological names and uncertain assignments.
  • the natural gender for personal names
  • the ethnic or tribal affiliation

Subsidiary projects

On the basis of the LaN, subsidiary projects, some of which are funded ( funds for the promotion of scientific research ) within the framework of the project "Studies on Old Germanic onomastics" initiated by Reichert, have been created, which etymologically prepared the Germanic onomastics broken down according to source types (runic inscriptions) and genres and the current status who seeks to present science and discusses research trends. The results of these research projects have so far been published as:

  • Personal names in south Germanic runic inscriptions. Winter, Heidelberg 2004 (Robert Nedoma).
  • The old Germanic ethnonyms. A guide to their etymology. Fassbaender, Vienna 2008 (Alexander Sitzmann, Friedrich E. Grünzweig).
  • The old Germanic toponyms as well as un-Germanic toponyms of Germania. A guide to their etymology. Fassbaender, Vienna 2014 (Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig).

The publication of the results of the research project on "Old Germanic theonyms", a scientific desideratum , is currently in progress. The results of Nedoma's research on personal names in the South Germanic runic inscriptions are incorporated into the new version of the South Germanic runic scripts, which will be published in 2017 in the series of supplementary volumes to the Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity (as editor and editor with Klaus Düwel and Sigmund Oehrl ).

expenditure

  • Lexicon of Old Germanic Names, Volume I, Part 1: Text Volume. ( Thesaurus Palaeogermanicus. 1,1). With the collaboration of Wilibald Kraml, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0931-8 .
  • Lexicon of Old Germanic Names, Volume I, Part 2: Register volume. ( Thesaurus Palaeogermanicus. 1, 2). With the collaboration of Robert Nedoma, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1718-3 .

literature

  • Thorsten Andersson : Old Germanic ethnics. In: Nam och Bygd. 97, 2009, pp. 5-39. (Review Sitzmann / Grünzweig AE)
  • Robert Nedoma: Old Germanic anthroponyms in rune epigraphic (and other) sources. A project report. In: Dieter Geuenich, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Jörg Jarnut (ed.): Person and Name. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes . Volume 32). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016880-4 , pp. 105–126. ( Fee Germanic Altertumskunde Online at de Gruyter ).
  • Hermann Reichert: Thesaurus Palaeogermanicus: Lexicon of the old Germanic languages. In: Contributions to name research . NF Vol. 12, No. 3, 1977, pp. 241-256.
  • Hermann Reichert: The "Lexicon of Old Germanic Names". Advance notice of a 2nd edition. In: Dieter Geuenich, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Jörg Jarnut (ed.): Person and Name. (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - supplementary volumes . Volume 32). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-016880-4 , pp. 100-104. ( Fee Germanic archeology online by de Gruyter).
  • Heinrich Tiefenbach : Hermann Reichert: Lexicon of old Germanic names. 1st part: text. 2nd part register. Created by Robert Nedoma. Verlag der Österr. Akad. D. Knowledge Vienna 1987–1990. In: Göttingische learned advertisements . Volume 247, No. 1-2, 1995, pp. 76-88.
  • Norbert Wagner : Hermann Reichert, Lexicon of Old Germanic Names, 1st part: Text. In: Contributions to name research . NF 23, 1988, pp. 316-328.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Foreword LaN I: VII-VIII.
  2. ↑ Introduction LaN I: IX ff .; LaN II: IX-XI.
  3. ^ Project website
  4. ^ Robert Nedoma: On the edition "The South Germanic Runic Inscriptions". A preliminary report. In: Hermann Reichert, Corinna Scheungraber (Hrsg.): Germanic antiquity: sources, methods, results. Files of the symposium on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Rudolf Much, Vienna 2012. (= Philologica Germanica. 35). Fassbaender, Vienna 2015, pp. 139–157.