Maria Hornung

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Maria Hornung (born May 31, 1920 in Vienna ; † June 26, 2010 ibid) was an Austrian linguist , dialectologist and name researcher .

Life

Maria Hornung was born as Maria Jechl. After graduating in 1938, she studied German, English and Romance studies at the University of Vienna , the first with Josef Nadler and Anton Pfalz , and later with Eberhard Kranzmayer . After completing her doctorate with Nadler in 1942 with a thesis on The Problems of the Post-War Period in German Women's Poetry , she was a scientific officer at the dictionary office of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (now the Institute for Dialect and Name Lexicons) and in 1945 also passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in German, Italian and English, with which she was also entitled to the academic degree Mag. phil. respectively. From an early age she dealt intensively with dialect studies, and as early as 1950 she published a work with Franz Roitinger on our dialects in the speech training series of the Austrian Federal Publishing House .

1958 undertook Maria Hornung their first extensive field research with Kranzmayer and its 1947 geehelichten husband Herwig Hornung in the oldest Bavarian-Austrian language island territory, the seven municipalities in northern Italy, and began their research activities in the enclaves Pladen , Zahre and Tischelwang south of the Carinthian Alps , a linguistic island research that accompanied her all her research life. After her habilitation with a thesis on dialectology in East Tyrol at Kranzmayer in the field of "Older German language and literature with special consideration of dialect" in 1964, she was appointed adjunct professor in 1969 and associate professor at the University of Vienna in 1980, a position that she held until 1985 held. She was also one of the editors and editors of the Austrian dictionary . Above all, however, she did a great job of researching the language islands such as the Zimbern , the Carnic language islands, the Gottschee in Lower Carniola and von Zarz in Upper Carniola, wrote several hundred publications, published and founded the scientific book series contributions to language island research from 1981 onwards 1982 the Austrian Language Island Museum, of which she was last honorary chairman.

From 1976 to 1979 and from 1985 to 1992, Maria Hornung was deputy chairman of the Viennese mother tongue association , of which she was an honorary member from 1990 until her death in 2010.

Maria Hornung was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Awards

Fonts

  • as editor, with Herwig Hornung: Dialect and History. Dedicated to Eberhard Kranzmayer on his 70th birthday on May 15, 1967. (= Studies on Austrian-Bavarian dialect studies 4). Böhlau, Vienna 1967.
  • as editor, with Herwig Hornung: From the name of Central Europe. Cultural contacts in the German-Romance-Slavobaltic language area . Ceremony for the 75th birthday of Eberhard Kranzmayer. Publishing house of the history association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1972.
  • The old Austrian language islands. Research, maintenance and documentation in the "Verein der Sprachinselfreunde" . Association of Friends of the Language Islands Settled from Austria in the Middle Ages, Vienna 1992.
  • Pladner dictionary (Glossario Sappadino) . Edition Praesens, Vienna 1995.
  • with Leopold Swossil: Dictionary of Viennese Dialect . ÖBV Pädagogischer Verlag, Vienna 1998. Second edition 2002.
  • Small name-based writings . Edition Praesens, Vienna 2000.
  • with Franz Roitinger: The Austrian dialects. An introduction . Österreichischer Bundesverlag & Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 2000.
  • Lexicon of Austrian family names . Österreichischer Bundesverlag & Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 2002.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiener Sprachblätter 1976/26/2, p. 60 & 1977/27/2, p. 57 & 1978/28/2, p. 65 & 1979/29/2, p. 60 & 1980/30/2, p 2.
  2. ↑ Wiener speech leaves 2010/60/2, p. 17
  3. ↑ Wiener speech leaves 2010/60/2, p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Hornung, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist, dialectologist and name researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2010
Place of death Vienna