Ruth Jörg

Ruth Jörg (born December 13, 1934 in Lützelflüh ) is a Swiss Germanist . She worked for over twenty years at the Swiss Idiotikon (Dictionary of Swiss-German language) with, gave the Reformation chronicle of John salad out and another on the edition texts from the 16th and 20th centuries is involved.

Life

Jörg grew up in the Bernese Emmental , where her father worked for what was then the Ramsei fruit wine cooperative (now Ramseier Suisse AG ). In Thun she attended the teachers ' seminar , and in 1954 she took a job at the comprehensive school in Schattenhalb (Haslital).

In 1962 Jörg enrolled at the University of Basel to study German ; She also spent two semesters at the University of Zurich . In 1973 she did her doctorate with Ernst Erhard Müller with a dissertation on the fading of the past tense in early modern Swiss German .

In 1975 Jörg - as successor to Hans Wanner - became editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon , where she stayed until her retirement in 1996. After Elise Wipf, Anna (Zollinger-) Escher, Clara Stockmeyer and Ida Suter, she was the fifth woman on the editorial team of the dictionary.

Create

Large and weighty word families (basic word plus compositions and derivatives), which Jörg dealt with for the Idiotikon , are for example Trōst, Trūw (with trūw ), Twing (with twingen ), wã (wõ), Wuchen, grow, Wadel, Widem, wider, wīhen and Wĩl (with wĩl ).

Before that, in 1973, she was commissioned by the General History Research Society of Switzerland to publish Johannes Salat's Reformation Chronicle. This takes under the historiographical works of the Reformation , a time a special place, it is nevertheless the only comprehensive account of events in the Confederation of Catholic perspective. The edition was published in 1986 in two text volumes and a commentary volume.

After her retirement, Jörg worked on four other editions. First she was involved in the editing and translation of Heinrich Bullinger's writings from the 16th century and subsequently co-editor of the special volume Writings for the Day, in which a selection of Bullinger's texts in the original federal language with translation and commentary was compiled. She then helped to edit the correspondence between Albert Einstein and the Zurich toxicologist Heinrich Zangger , which lasted from 1910 to 1947 , and finally supported the publication of the minutes of the Baden disputation of 1526. She also advises the editors of Bullinger's letters on philological issues .

As a lecturer at the University of Zurich, Jörg gave various courses on the use of the Swiss idiot . For a long time she also worked as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Basel Leveraging Foundation .

Publications (a selection)

• Collaboration on the Swiss Idioticon, Volumes XIV and XV. A complete compilation of their contributions can be found in the dictionary's report on 1997, p. 15 f.

monograph

• Investigations into the decline of the past tense in Swiss German. Diss. Univ. Basel. Bern 1976 (Basel Studies on German Language and Literature 52).

Essays

• The influence of philological-rhetorical humanism on the language of the office, illustrated using the example of the Lucerne chronicler Hans Salat. In: Swiss German Dictionary. Report on 1977. [Zurich] 1987, pp. 11–21.
• Diachrony and synchrony in dialect lexicography. Illustrated using examples from the Swiss Idioticon / dictionary of the Swiss German language. In: Lexicography of Dialects. Edited by Hans Friebertshäuser. Tübingen 1986, pp. 47-60.
• Regional dictionaries - regional vocabulary. Observations on the localization of historical verbatim. In: Festgabe for Peter Dalcher. Zurich 1987 (supplement to the Swiss German dictionary. Report on the year 1988 ), pp. 15–24.
• Johannes Salat (1498–1561) - how a craftsman becomes a civil servant and writes a chronicle of the Reformation period. In: Der Geschichtsfreund 141, 1988, pp. 211-224.
• Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich as reflected in the Chronicle of Johannes Salat. In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 80, 1989, pp. 88-104.
• Through the eyes of the lexicographer: indications of the meaning of historical vocabulary, illustrated using the example of the Swiss German dictionary. In: Status and tasks of German dialect lexicography. Edited by Ernst Bremer and Reiner Hildebrandt. Berlin / New York 1996, pp. 231-238.
• "A landscape dictionary like none Switzerland has yet". A forgotten work by Emanuel Friedli . In: Swiss German Dictionary. Report on 1997. [Zurich] 1998, pp. 17–30.

Editions

• Hans Salat: Reformation Chronicle 1517–1534. Edited by Ruth Jörg, ed. from the General History Research Society of Switzerland. Three volumes. Bern 1986 (Sources on Swiss History NF. I 8 / 1–3).
• Heinrich Bullinger: Writings for the day. Edited by Hans Ulrich Bächtold, Ruth Jörg and Christian Moser. achius, Zug 2006 (studies and texts on Bullinger's time 3).

Collaboration on editions

• Heinrich Bullinger: Writings. On behalf of the Zwingliverein and in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Bächtold, Ruth Jörg and Peter Opitz ed. by Emidio Campi, Detlef Roth and Peter Stotz. 6 volumes of text and a register volume, TVZ, Zurich 2004–2007.
• Soul mate. The correspondence between Albert Einstein and Heinrich Zangger (1910–1947). Edited by Robert Schulmann, with the assistance of Ruth Jörg. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2012.
• The Baden Disputation of 1526. Annotated edition of the protocol. Edited by Alfred Schindler and Wolfram Schneider-Lastin with the collaboration of Ruth Jörg, Detlef Roth and Richard Wetzel. With a historical introduction by Martin H. Jung. TVZ, Zurich 2015.

literature

• Annual reports of the Swiss Idiotikon , especially the one about 1997.

Web link

• Publications by and about Ruth Jörg in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library