Rudolf Mulch

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Rudolf Mulch (born December 28, 1907 in Ober-Hörgern ; † June 24, 1989 ) was a German linguist , dialectologist and lexicographer .

Mulch, the son of a Hessian farmer, studied German, English and French at the secondary school in Butzbach , Giessen, Munich and Leipzig after completing his Abitur . His important academic teachers in German were Otto Behaghel , Alfred Götze and Friedrich Maurer , Karl Viëtor and Theodor Frings as well as the Romanist Karl Vossler . After passing the state examination at Behagel and Götze, he received his doctorate in Gießen with a socio-psychological-lexicological examination of the Central Hessian dialect of the native Wetterau with the title Mental Conditions in the Life of Words which was assessed as "summa cum laude" (edited and published in: Indo-European Research 51 ( 1933), pp. 5-73).

In the following years he took up school service, including on behalf of the Foreign Office at the Belgrade grammar school. After military service and Soviet imprisonment, in 1947, at the request of his teacher Maurer, he took over the material collection for the South Hessian dictionary that Maurer had created in the mid-1920s . Mulch was transferred to the "Ricarda-Huch-Schule" in Gießen in 1950 and in 1956 he was released halfway from school work for dictionary work. To work on the dictionary , he was finally transferred to the Justus Liebig University in 1961 , where lectures began in 1963. After extensive field research and substantial additions to the dictionary material, he worked out the manuscript of the "South Hessian Dictionary", which was published from 1965 in partial deliveries up to 2010. Mulch managed the publication himself until his retirement in 1973, then with the support of his son Roland Mulch . Mulch's dictionary has the status of a monumental work of Hessian linguistic research.

Mulch was an honorary professor at Giessen University.

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SURNAME Mulch, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist, dialectologist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper listeners
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1989