Otto Kieser

Otto Kieser (born August 20, 1893 in Mühlbeck , † April 8, 1985 in Bad Schwalbach ) was a German educator , linguist and writer .

Life

The son of the teacher and local researcher Otto Kieser (1860–1947) attended high school in Torgau . Kieser then studied German , Romance and English at the universities in Halle / Saale , Leipzig and Marburg . During the First World War , Kieser volunteered for the military. He then continued his studies. After two state exams , Kieser became a lecturer at higher schools in Aachen , Elsterwerda and Riesa . From 1950 until his retirement in 1957 he was a teacher in Halle a. d. Hall . In 1972 Kieser moved to Germany, first to Darmstadt and then to Bad Homburg .

From the early 1920s Otto Kieser devoted himself to dialect research and records for the area: Dübener Heide -Riesa-Elsterwerda- Doberlug . He made over 10,000 word slips available to the Upper Saxon Dictionary at the University of Leipzig , where he had been a volunteer since 1927

In 1930 he was one of the co-founders of the Bad Liebenwerda working group for local history , and in the following years he was the author and editor of over 100 local history writings and articles well into old age.

For his work, Kieser received an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1972 .

Works and publications (selection)

Otto Kieser published numerous articles in the yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research , in the journal for dialectics and linguistics and other specialist journals. He was also the author of articles in various local history writings.

• Political and dialect border. In: The Black Magpie. No. 355, 1928.
• The ladybug in our dialect. In: The Black Magpie. No. 360, 1928.
• Dialect names and expressions in children's play (part 1). In: The Black Magpie. No. 361, 1928.
• Dialect names and expressions in children's play (part 2). In: The Black Magpie. No. 365, 1928.
• Dialect names and expressions in children's play (part 3). In: The Black Magpie. No. 367, 1928.
• Dialect names and expressions in children's play (part 4). In: The Black Magpie. No. 369, 1929.
• Dialect names and expressions in children's play (part 5). In: The Black Magpie. No. 373, 1929.
• Dialect harvest expressions. In: The Black Magpie. No. 380, 1929.
• Dialect expressions used in the grain harvest. In: The Black Magpie. No. 382, ​​1929.
• German singer ballads . In: Auxiliary books for German lessons; No. 1 . Riesa-Gröba 1932.
• Word boundaries in the Dübener Heide: A contribution to dialect research in the Halle-Merseburg Gau Collective work = writings of the NS teachers' association, Halle-Merseburg Gau; Issue 1 . Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1938.
• From the vernacular of the homeland . Dictionary of the Düben Heath and the adjacent areas. In: Verein Dübener Heide e. V (Ed.): Mitteilungen u. Reports from the Dübener Heide Association V . 1st edition. Streubel, Düben 1940, DNB  574303650 .
• Diatopic of a vocabulary according to subject groups - Dialect analysis of the Liebenwerda district, 1972.
• The Halle dialect poet Reinhold Hoyer and his works . Darmstadt 1979.
• The language of Riesa and the surrounding area around 1950 . Darmstadt 1983.
• Harro Kieser, Studium Hallense eV (Ed.): Dutch language traces in Central Germany . selected contributions to the spread of Neerlandica in Fläming and neighboring areas. Study Hallense, Halle / Saale 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-987-9 .

Honor and commemoration

• The work of the language and dialect researcher Otto Kieser and that of his father is remembered in the Mühlbeck home parlor.

literature

• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Kieser, Otto", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, pp. 50–51.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . tape 27 . De Gruyter, Berlin; New York; Boston 2016 (founded by Wilhelm Kosch).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Harro Kieser: A man with a wide range of interests in Torgauer Zeitung , November 12, 2010
3. ↑ Long live the dialect In Lausitzer Rundschau , March 2nd, 2006