Otto Mensing

Otto Mensing (born July 28, 1868 in Lütjenburg ; † August 19, 1939 in Kiel ) was a German linguist.

Life

Mensing completed his habilitation in Kiel in 1903. As early as 1902, the preparatory work on a dictionary began with an appeal to the population that was printed in Schleswig-Holstein newspapers. Source material about Low German in Schleswig-Holstein should be collected and sent to the initiators. The Schleswig-Holstein Dictionary was published in five volumes between 1925 and 1935. Mensing headed the Low German Society at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and was appointed professor in 1917. In 1921 he founded the Niederdeutsche Bühne Kiel . He was exempted from teaching in 1928 for his Low German research. In 1937 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Street sign for Professor-Mensing-Strasse in Flensburg

In Kiel, Mensingstrasse is a reminder of the linguist. In Flensburg , Professor-Mensing-Strasse was named after him.

In 1886 he became a member of the Kiel fraternity of the Krusenrotter .

Works (selection)

Investigations into the syntax of concession sentences in Old and Middle High German with special consideration for Wolframs Parzival. Dissertation 1891
Schleswig-Holstein dictionary. - Short edition, Verlag C. Donath 1906.
Schleswig-Holstein dictionary . - Popular edition. Published by K. Wachholtz, 1925–1935.
Folk language and folklore with Theodor Storm. Flensburg 1923.
All sorts of Low German. Popular lectures. Neumünster 1934.
De Holsteensche Rüggeloeper and other pamphlets on the invasion of Sweden in Holstein from 1644. Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster 1938.

Web links

Commons : Otto Mensing - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Otto Mensing in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Otto Mensing in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Mensingstrasse. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
^ History of the Low German Department in Kiel.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 166.
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 331.

personal data
SURNAME	Mensing, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luetjenburg
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1939
Place of death	Kiel

[1] Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Mensingstrasse. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).

[2] History of the Low German Department in Kiel.

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 166.

[4] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 331.