Thorsten Andersson

This article deals with the linguist Thorsten Andersson. For other people see Torsten Andersson .

Thorsten Andersson (born February 23, 1929 - † April 22, 2018 ) was a Swedish Germanic and Scandinavian Medievalist , linguist and name researcher . He was professor for Scandinavian languages ​​and place name research at Uppsala University .

Life

After studying and editing the Swedish language at the University of Münster , Andersson completed his doctorate in Uppsala, where he was appointed full professor for Scandinavian studies in 1971 until his retirement in 1994.

Andersson was from 1987 a member of the philological class of the Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies ("Royal Swedish Academy for Literature, History and Antiquities") and currently member of the board. In addition, Andersson was co-editor of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde and was the author of numerous articles in the field of linguistics and onomatology. He worked as editor and contributor for the series of supplementary volumes.

From 1971 to 1985 he was a member of the "NORN Committee" ( Nordic Committee for Cooperation in Onomastics ) and from 1971 to 1980 he was its chairman. From 1983 to 2000 he was co-editor of the Swedish journal for Scandinavian personal nomenclature Studia Anthroponymica Scandinavica. Tidskrift för nordisk personnamnsforskning . and from 1985 to 2005 editor of the Swedish journal for Scandinavian place naming, Namn och bygd. Tides for nordisk ortnamnsforskning .

In 2003 the University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Fonts (selection)

Contributions

• The North Germanic branch of the language. In: Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer (Eds.) Classical Studies - Classical Studies - Cultural Studies. Income and perspectives after 40 years of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027360-1 , pp. 215–244. ( Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 77).
• Old Germanic ethnics. In: Namn och bygd. 97 (2009) pp. 5-39.
• Germanic personal names against an Indo-European background. In: Albrecht Greule, Matthias Springer (Eds.) Names of the early Middle Ages as linguistic evidence and as historical sources. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020815-3 , pp. 9-26. ( Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 66).
• Gutþiuda och Gutland - en tillfüllen likhet ?. In: Namn och Kulturella Kontakte i Östersjöområdet. Handlingar från NORNA: s 30th symposium i Visby 14–16 September 2001. Redigerade av Staffan Nyström, Uppsala, pp. 74–86. ( NORNA rapporter 78).
• Götar, goter, gutar. In: Namn och bygd. 84 (1996) pp. 5-22.
• Nordic and continental Germanic place and person name structure in ancient times. In: Edith Marold , Christiane Zimmermann (Ed.) Northwest Germanic. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-090769-8 , pp. 1-40. ( Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 13).
• Onomastiska grundfrågor. In: The ellevte nordiske navneforskerkongressen. Sunday 19-23 June 1994. Redigerade av Kristoffer Kruken, Uppsala 1994, pp. 15-41. ( NORNA-Rapporter 60).
• Place and person names as a source of information for the old Germanic religion. In: Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (eds.) Germanic religious history - sources and source problems. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-012872-1 , pp. 508-540. ( Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 5).
• Germanic court - hill, court, sanctuary. In: Karl Hauck, Karl Kroeschel (Ed.) Language and Law. Contributions to the cultural history of the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand on her 60th birthday. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-160782-5 , pp. 1-9.
• The Swedish terms hund and hundare. A contribution to the discussion of a Germanic word family. In: Karl Hauck et al. (Ed.) Early Medieval Studies . Volume 13, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1979, pp. 88-124.
• Middle High German solved - Hessian solved In: Dietrich Hofmann, Willy Sanders (eds.) Commemorative William Foerste. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1970, pp. 148–166. ( Low German Studies . 18).
• Gelster and Kelsterbach. In: Contributions to name research . NF. 5 (1970) pp. 122-127.
• Tuna problem. In: Namn och Bygd. Volume 56, 1968, pp. 89-124.

editor

• Suffix formations in old place names. Files from an international symposium in Uppsala 14.-16. May 2004. Eva Nyman (co-editor), Uppsala 2004. ( Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi. 88).

literature

• Hedersdoktorer, Nya professorer, Pristagare. Årshögtiden vid Umeå universitet 24 october 2009. Collection of information teachers pa Anette Olofsson AO Journalism (editor), Umeå universitet 2009, ISSN  0280-6711 .

Festschriften for Andersson (with bibliographies)

• Namn in the north and forna Europe: valda artiklar utgivna med anledning av Thorsten Anderssons sextioårsdag 23 february 1989: med en bibliografi över Thorsten Andersson's publicerade skrifter. Nordiska samarbetskommittén för namnforskning; Thorsten Andersson, Vibeke Dalberg, Bent Jørgensen, Margarete Andersson-Schmitt (eds.), Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1989, ISBN 978-91-22-01280-1 .
• Worlds of names - place and person names in a historical perspective. Dedicated to Thorsten Andersson on his 75th birthday. Astrid van Nahl , Lennart Elmevik, Stefan Brink (eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-091147-3 . ( Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 44).

Web links

• Publications by Thorsten Andersson in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
• Thorsten Andersson at Uppsala University , Institute for Nordic Linguistics (with photo)
• Thorsten Andersson at the Royal Swedish Academy on vitterhetsakad.se (with photo)
• Andersson's contributions in “Namn och bygd” on kgaa.nu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ onomastikblog.de , accessed on April 25, 2018
2. ↑ Thorsten Andersson ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at katalog.uu.se, accessed April 3, 2013.