Rudolf Post

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Rudolf Post

Rudolf Post (born August 29, 1944 in Bad Salzschlirf ) is a German linguist , dialect researcher and lexicographer .

Life and research

Rudolf Post grew up as the third child of five siblings in Bad Salzschlirf. After attending primary school, an apprenticeship as a mechanic in Fulda followed . In 1968 he passed the Abitur on the second educational path . This was followed by studies of theology , philosophy and German in Fulda and Mainz . In 1974 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools for German and Catholic religious studies . From 1974 to 1977 he was in the graduate program of Philosophy, Romance Studies and German Studies, followed by the second state examination in 1978. In 1982 he became the specialist German on Romanesque borrowings in the West Central German dialects doctorate .

Rudolf Post is married and has one daughter.

Career history

From 1978 to 1981 Rudolf Post was a research associate at the German Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he also completed his doctorate. Then from 1981 to 1997 he was head of the Palatinate Dictionary in Kaiserslautern, a project of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. During this period he also carried out various teaching assignments at the University of Mannheim , Department of German Linguistics. After completing the Palatinate Dictionary , Rudolf Post switched to the Baden Dictionary , where he headed this position at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg from 1998 to 2009. There he also held regular teaching positions at the Institute for German Language and Older Literature.

Rudolf Post has been retired since 2009 and lives in Gabsheim .

Fonts (selection)

  • Romanic borrowings in West Central German dialects. Diatopic, diachronic and diastratic studies on linguistic interference using the example of agricultural vocabulary . Dissertation Mainz 1982 (=  Mainz studies on language and folk research . No. 6 ). Wiesbaden 1982.
  • Palatinate dictionary . Founded by Ernst Christmann, continued by Julius Krämer, edited by Rudolf Post. Editor on Volume IV – VI. Wiesbaden / Stuttgart (1965-1997).
  • The dialect of Bad Salzschlirf (Fulda district). Introduction, dictionary, house and field names. Based on the collection of Karl Post † with the collaboration of Karl Schwarz. Published for the eleven hundredth anniversary of the Bad Salzschlirf community . 1st edition. Kaiserslautern 1985 (second, improved and expanded edition: Bad Salzschlirf 2013).
  • The dialect of Gabsheim in Rheinhessen . Kaiserslautern 1987.
  • Palatinate. Introduction to a language landscape . Landau / Pfalz 1990 (360 pages, 45 maps and illustrations, 2nd updated and expanded edition: Landau / Pfalz 1992).
  • with Anni Becker: The Krott songs in Palatinate dialect . Ed .: Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore Kaiserslautern (=  contributions to Palatinate Folklore . No. 7 ). Kaiserslautern 1994.
  • "I like to do". The Palatine dialect poet contest Bockenheim from the beginning until today. A documentation . Ed .: Municipality of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse. Editor: Rudolf Post. Landau 1995.
  • with Sigrid Bingenheimer: Palatinate in text and sound 1 . Samples of 50 local oral species, recorded in the years 1992–1997. Kaiserslautern 1998.
  • Baden dictionary . Published with the support of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science and Research. Prepared by Friedrich Kluge, Alfred Götze, Ludwig Sütterlin, Friedrich Wilhelm, Ernst Ochs. Started by Ernst Ochs. Continued by Karl Friedrich Müller, Gerhard W. Baur. Edited by Rudolf Post. Delivery 57-81 (Volume IV, pp. 1-608). N - oath. Publishing house Moritz Schauenburg Lahr, 1999; from 2000 R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich. 2009.
  • with Walter Sauer: How do I write dialect? A guide for dialect authors . Neckarsteinach 2003.
  • Small Palatinate Dictionary. Palatinate and Electoral Palatinate . 2. revised Edition. Neckarsteinach 2007 (180 pages, 20 maps, 4th, updated edition 2016).
  • Alemannic dictionary for Baden . With the collaboration of Friedel Scheer-Nahor. Ed .: Landesverein Badische Heimat e. V., Muettersproch Society - Association for Alemannic Language e. V. 2nd edition. Karlsruhe 2010 (408 pages, 150 maps).
  • Allminanner - Six decades of Palatinate dialect poetry contest in Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse. Texts and topics . Ed .: Municipality of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse, Förderkreis Mundarttage Bockenheim e. V., editorial office Rudolf Post. Neckarsteinach 2012.
  • Gabsheim in the middle of Rheinhessen - landscape, history, village life . Self-published, Gabsheim 2016.
  • "Gesoecht on gefonge." The dialect dictionary of the Fulda region. Parzellers Buchverlag, Fulda 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Michael dimples: International German studies directory: Rudolf Post. In: uni-erlangen.de. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ The editors of the Baden Dictionary - German Linguistics. In: uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Post, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzschlirf