Otto Gröger

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Otto Gröger, 1914

Otto Gröger (born August 4, 1876 in Reichenau an der Rax , Lower Austria ; † August 19, 1953 in Gmunden , Upper Austria , Swiss citizen since 1913) was a Swiss dialectologist , adjunct professor at the University of Zurich and editor (later effective editor-in-chief) at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon .

life and work

Otto Gröger was born in Lower Austria as the son of a bank director and graduated from elementary school and high school in Vienna . After completing two years of military service, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1897 and studied German linguistics , Anglo-Saxon language and literature, and psychology . After a long break, due to the management of a large property after the sudden death of his father, he received his doctorate in 1909 under Albert Bachmann with a thesis on the Old High German and Old Saxon compositional fugue .

Recommended by Bachmann, Gröger joined the editorial team of Schweizerischer Idiotikons in 1911 and worked there until 1951. From 1913 onwards, he acted as “bureau chief”. Since efforts by Albert Bachmann and the Executive Committee to appoint Wilhelm Wiget , Manfred Szadrowsky or Walter Henzen to the Idiotikon had failed, Gröger worked after Bachmann's death in 1934 until the end of 1950 as the actual, but never appointed editor-in-chief. He remained connected to the dictionary even after his retirement and read corrections until shortly before his death. Successor in the office of editor-in-chief was Hans Wanner in 1951 , and in the office of editor Kurt Meyer .

In addition to his work on the dictionary, he taught at the University of Zurich from 1921 as a private lecturer and from 1927 as adjunct professor. Gröger was also co-founder and from 1913 to 1936 technical director of the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich founded by Bachmann .

Gröger's wife Elsa Wolfsgruber was the daughter of the mayor of Gmunden , Upper Austria, where the couple spent their summer holidays every year and where Gröger is also buried.

Publications

  • The Old High German and Old Saxon compositional fugue. With a directory of the Old High German and Old Saxon Composita. Zürcher & Furrer, Zurich 1910 (Zurich, university, dissertation, 1910/11).
  • Swiss dialects (=  meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Philosophical-Historical Class. Vol. 176, 3, ISSN  1012-487X = Communication from the Phonogram Archives Commission. Vol. 36). Edited on behalf of the leading commission of the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich. Hölder, Vienna 1914.
  • The sound level of the German dialect of Samnaun compared to that of the neighboring Tyrolean dialects. In: Festschrift Albert Bachmann. On his sixtieth birthday on November 12, 1923. Dedicated by friends and students (=  magazine for German dialects. Vol. 19, Issue 1/2, ISSN  0932-1314 ). Verlag des Deutschen Sprachverein, Berlin 1924, pp. 103–144. At the same time habilitation thesis.
  • Swiss dialects. Dialects of German Switzerland. Recorded in association with the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich (=  phonetic library. Ed. By the phonetic department at the Prussian State Library. Nos. 100–124, 150). Lautabteilung, Berlin 1930–1932. (all transcriptions and translations by Otto Gröger.)
  • numerous word articles in the Swiss Idiotikon, volumes VII – XI.

literature

To resign

  • Rudolf Hotzenköcherle : Prof. Dr. Farewell Otto Gröger. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 16, 1951.
  • eka: To say goodbye to Prof. Dr. Otto Gröger. In: Zürichsee-Zeitung, February 21, 1951.
  • -fh- [= Fritz Heberlein]: "My life belonged to the dictionary." Prof. Dr. Otto Gröger says goodbye to the university. In: Zurich Week, February 23, 1951.
  • Th. E. Blattner: Thanks to Prof. Dr. Otto Gröger. In: Zürcher Spiegel, March 10, 1951.
  • GS [= Guntram Saladin ]: To say goodbye to Professor Groeger. In: Zürcher Nachrichten, March 29, 1951.

Obituaries

  • [O. N .:] Dr. Otto Gröger went home. In: Salzkammergut newspaper, August 27, 1953.
  • Adolf Ribi: Otto Gröger (1876–1953). In: Neue Zürcher Nachrichten, August 28, 1953.
  • Rudolf Hotzenköcherle: Otto Gröger. August 4, 1876 - August 19, 1953. In: University of Zurich. Annual report 1953/54, pp. 75–76.

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personal data
SURNAME Gröger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau on the Rax
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1953
Place of death Gmunden