Otto Ladendorf

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Otto Ladendorf (born June 13, 1873 in Dresden , † July 31, 1911 in Leipzig ) was a German high school teacher .

biography

Wilhelm Otto Ladendorf grew up as the second of six children of a master blacksmith. He attended elementary school and the Ehrlichsche Gestift , then until Christmas 1888 the teachers' seminar in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . Since Easter 1889 he was an intern at the Neustädter Gymnasium , which accepted him regularly in December of that year. From 1894 he studied philosophy, German and classical philology at the University of Leipzig .

In 1897 he was with a dissertation on Christoph Otto Freiherr von Schönaich Dr. phil. PhD. In 1898 he passed the state examination for candidate teachers and initially taught in Chemnitz and Freiberg . From 1900 until his untimely death he worked as a senior high school teacher at the Nikolaischule Leipzig . He earned scientific merit through his historical subject book .

In an obituary, his sponsor Friedrich Kluge paid tribute to him as follows:

“It deserves our full admiration that he was able to achieve scientific achievements in addition to the duties of a strenuous school service. [...] The word-history essays that our magazine published from him had an exemplary effect due to their rich content and far-sighted instinct. If he dared to create his keyword book in a fairly short time, then he also had the knowledge and strength enough to really do something good and lasting. "

Historical subject book

Structure and concept

Ladendorf's historical subject headings book was published in 1906 by the Strasbourg publishing house Karl J. Trübner . It lists a wide variety of catchphrases from politics, art and literature of the 19th century: The dance series ranges from “monkey theater” to “ blue flower ” and “ summer freshness ” to “zigzag course”.

In addition to the actual lexical collection, the subject book also attempted for the first time a theoretical description and analysis of the subject according to its origin, variety, lifespan, distribution, form and emotional value.

The work was a deliberate addition to Georg Büchmann . While his collection “ Winged Words ”, which was already popular at the time, proved the authorship of fixed quotations and phrases, Ladendorf emphasized that “it is not enough to provide the birth certificate as precisely as possible, but that one must also follow the further development, that one must also focus on the gradual or sudden death as well as the resurgence of the catchphrases. "(p. XXIV)

On the "value of such observations", Ladendorf wrote:

“The linguist [...] can often study typical word fates with these expressions in a peculiar way, how ebb and flow change when a catchphrase is added, how individual expressions are curiously bent, swearwords become proud party names (Whigs, Tories, Geufen!) how new types of words suddenly shoot up, how new thoughts and moods struggle for conformal linguistic expression, how foreign language material is taken over or processed, be it through amalgamation, be it through German. "(p. XXVIII)

effect

Ladendorf's lexical interest in catchphrases and buzzwords is still pioneering today. But unlike Büchmann's “Winged Words”, which - not least because of their practical use - have been reissued again and again today, Ladendorf has been forgotten.

Only after the Second World War was his historical subject book rediscovered and reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag in Hildesheim in 1968. In lexicography it is considered a work that "has not yet been replaced by a better one".

Ladendorf's idea of ​​using individual key words to describe entire subject areas or conjunctions lives on in many works of popular and academic language criticism - cf. z. B .:

  • Ulrich Bröckling (Ed.): Glossary of the Present . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Do you speak present? Lexicon of the early 21st century . Goldmann, Munich 2006.
  • Joachim Stave: Words and People. Glosses and reflections on German in the Federal Republic. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim 1968.
  • Gerhard Strauss and a. (Ed.): Controversial words from agitation to zeitgeist. A lexicon for public usage . De Gruyter, Berlin 1989.

Publications by Otto Ladendorf

  • Christoph Otto Freiherr von Schönaich. Contributions to the knowledge of his life and his writings. Dissertation, Leipzig 1897.
  • Historical subject book. One try. Trübner, Strassburg / Berlin 1906 (reprinted by Hans-Gerd Schumann. G. Olms, Hildesheim 1968).
  • Hans Hoffmann - his life course and his works . Berlin 1908.

literature

  • Literature by and about Otto Ladendorf in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Hans-Gerd Schumann: Introduction. In: Otto Ladendorf: Historical keyword book. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1968. (Reprint of the 1906 edition), pp. V – XVI.
  • Joachim Stave: Living with catchphrases. In: Wirkendes Wort 15, 1965, pp. 333–342.
  • Thomas Niehr: Keyword. In: Gert Ueding (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of rhetoric (Volume 8: Rhet-St). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2007, Sp. 496-502.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Ladendorf: Christoph Otto Freiherr von Schönaich: Contributions to the knowledge of his life and his writings . O. Schmidt, Leipzig 1897 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Journal for German Word Research 13 (1911/12), p. 244.
  3. ^ M. Kaempfert: The subject book . In: FJ Hausmann u. a. (Ed.): Dictionaries. An international handbook on lexicography . De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, p. 1200.
personal data
SURNAME Ladendorf, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1911
Place of death Leipzig