Thomas Gloning

Thomas Gloning (born January 7, 1960 in Rottweil am Neckar ) is a German specialist in German.

From 1980 to 1986, Gloning studied German and sports science at the University of Tübingen and then worked on the DFG project Creation and Development of Newspaper Language in the 16th and 17th Centuries at the University of Tübingen . From 1992 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the Institute for German Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Giessen . He received his doctorate in 1994 from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on action-theoretical semantics. From 1994 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the Institute for German Language and Medieval Literature in Giessen . He completed his habilitation at the University of Giessen on the subject of organizing and developing historical vocabulary. Lexicological conception and exemplary studies of the German vocabulary around 1600 . His habilitation thesis was awarded the 2003 Justus Liebig University Prize for 2003. From 1999 to 2006 he was a lecturer in Marburg at the Institute for German Linguistics at the Philipps University .

This was followed in September 2006 by a professorship at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna and his current position as professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Giessen.

His main research interests are core areas of linguistics with language usage, language usage and communication analysis. The history of language use with word usage and vocabulary history. Furthermore text organization, text production and text optimization; Conversation analysis; Word usage and vocabulary; Investigations into the linguistic form of literary texts of the 20th and 21st centuries; History of language and history of language use; Hypertext linguistics.

He has been running the Monumenta Germaniae Culinaria et Diaetetica project since 2000 , in which older German-language cookbooks and nutrition teachings from the 14th to 18th centuries are digitized.

In 2019 Gloning was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Literature (selection)

• Studies on the semantic history of the development of modal verbs in German, Gerd Fritz, Thomas Gloning, Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1987, ISBN 9783484311879
• Meaning, use and linguistic action, Thomas Gloning, Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1996, ISBN 9783484311701
• Organization and development of historical vocabulary, Thomas Gloning, Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2003 ISBN 9783484312425
• Meaning, use and linguistic action, Thomas Gloning, Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1996, ISBN 9783484311701
• Rheinfränkisches Kochbuch around 1445. Facsimile collection of late medieval cooking recipes from the collective manuscript Ms. germ. Fol 244, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin., Text, transl., Notes and glossary by Gloning, Thomas, Auer, 1998, ISBN 978-3403031314
• Rembert Dodoens: Cruyde Boeck (Antwerp 1563). Digital facsimile based on the copy from the University Library of Marburg. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas Gloning, Lydia Kaiser and Ans Schapendonk. Marburg 2005 (publications of the University Library Marburg 125); Online version
• Monumenta Germaniae Culinaria 1350-1800 . The older German cookbooks and dietetics (PDF file; 63 kB)
• Prospects for the use of electronic texts in historical linguistics (PDF file; 63 kB)
• Thomas Gloning / Christiane Schlaps: Prototypes for an electronic Goethe dictionary. In: Language and Data Processing 23 (1999), pp. 21–34.
• Thomas Gloning / Rüdiger Welter: Vocabulary architecture and electronic dictionaries: Goethe's vocabulary and the Goethe dictionary. In: Ingrid Lemberg / Bernhard Schröder / Angelika Storrer (eds.): Chances and perspectives of computer-aided lexicography. Hypertext, Internet and SGML / XML for the production and publication of digital dictionaries. Tübingen 2001 (Lexicographica: Series maior; 107), pp. 117-132.

Web links

• Website from Thomas Gloning at the University of Giessen
• Literature by and about Thomas Gloning in the catalog of the German National Library