Central Low German Concise Dictionary
The Middle Low German Concise Dictionary is a multi-volume dictionary of the Middle Low German language that has been developed at the University of Hamburg since 1923 . It was preceded as early as 1888 by a Middle Low German Concise Dictionary begun by August Lübben and completed by Christoph Walther after his death .
purpose
The dictionary primarily serves three areas of science:
- linguistics and literary studies,
- the science of history; a core area is the Hanseatic League research ,
- of cultural history, historical sociology and folklore.
In addition, the dictionary can also be used as a source of information by laypeople interested in regional and linguistic history.
Sources and material base
The archive material offers a representative cross-section of the diverse text types and areas of application of the Middle Low German language. The approximately 1,000,000 documents that have been collected not only include edited sources, but also take into account original material from archives and libraries. With an estimated total number of lemmas to be realized of over 50,000 entries, they provide an insight into far-reaching linguistic expansion and differentiation processes as well as cultural and language contact phenomena and thus represent an essential part of Low German language history. The lexicographical recording of the Middle Low German vocabulary also takes into account the broad thematic, type-specific, regional and temporal diversification of the source material. A large number of source texts that have come down to us from widely scattered areas of application document the central role that Middle Low German played from the 13th to 17th centuries. The tradition shows a pronounced functionalization of historical written form in the documentation and communication of everyday and technical knowledge, in the largely differentiated urban administrative literature and in diplomatic literature (e.g. religious treatises; herbal and pharmacopoeia; merchant accounts and commodity registers; killing invoices and other types of administrative text ; City rights ; Hanseatic trials , etc.) as well as in the evidence of a European literary history (e.g. Reynke de vos , Ship of Fools ).
history
- Project foundation and start of material collection in 1923 at the University of Hamburg by Agathe Lasch and Conrad Borchling
- Start of publication 1928 (Hamburg)
- After a long break, work resumed in 1953
- Agathe Lasch was banned from working as a Jew under the National Socialist regime and was murdered in a concentration camp in 1942.
- After a long break, Gerhard Cordes and Annemarie Huebner took over the editing
- after Cordes' death Dieter Möhn and Ingrid Schröder became editors in 1987 (from 1956 Neumünster)
- conceptual reorganization
- 1991 resumption of publication
Publication status
- Start of publication: 1928
- Volume 1 (A - F / V) 1956
- Volume 2 (G - R) 2004
- Volume 3 (S - W) will be published in delivery
- Planned completion around 2020 with three volumes
literature
- expenditure
- Middle Low German concise dictionary, founded by Agathe Lasch and Conrad Borchling, ed. after Gerhard Cordes and Annemarie Hübner from 1993 by Dieter Möhn and Ingrid Schröder, I – III / 1, [Hamburg 1928–] Neumünster 1956–2007.
- Representations
- D. Möhn: Middle Low German concise dictionary between torso and possible conclusion. A condition report. In: Korrespondenzblatt des Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung 97 (1990), pp. 5–12.
- D. Möhn / I. Schröder: Middle Low German Concise Dictionary - resumption of deliveries. 2. Workshop report. In: Korrespondenzblatt des Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung 99 (1992), pp. 52–59.
- D. Möhn: Workplace Middle Low German Dictionary. In: Work reports of the offices and centers set up in the Linguistics Department; Reporting period: April 1, 1989 to March 31, 1992. Ed. University of Hamburg, Department of Linguistics, Hamburg 1993, pp. 38–41.
- D. Möhn: Workplace Middle Low German Dictionary. In: Arbeitsstellen und Zentren, Arbeitsberichte April 1992 - March 1994. Ed. University of Hamburg, Department of Linguistics, Hamburg 1995, pp. 31–34.
- D. Möhn: Workplace Middle Low German Dictionary. In: Work reports of the offices and centers set up in the Linguistics Department; Reporting period: April 1994 to March 1997. Ed. University of Hamburg, Department of Linguistics, Hamburg 1997, pp. 13–15.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Lübben, Christoph Walther: Middle Low German Concise Dictionary. North / Leipzig 1885–1888; Reprint Darmstadt 1965.