Volkmar Hellfritzsch

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Volkmar Otto Hellfritzsch (born March 5, 1935 in Plauen ) is a German name researcher and educator .

Life

After completing his Abitur in his hometown of Plauen, Hellfritzsch studied German, English / American, pedagogy and psychology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1953 to 1958 . He then worked from 1958 to 1961 as a research assistant and teacher for German at EOS Zeulenroda . This was followed by brief activities as a lecturer at the Herder Institute and at the German Institute of Leipzig University, where he studied Vogtland personal names in 1963 on the material of the Plauen and Oelsnitz districts . to the Dr. phil. received his doctorate . From 1963 to 1991 he worked as a teacher for German and English at EOS in the small town of Stollberg in the Ore Mountains . Accompanying he laid in 1979 at the College of Education "Ernst Schneller" Zwickau on the subject of the proper names as grammatical and spelling and wortkundlicher fabric of the mother language teaching his second dissertation , now Dr. paed., before. After the reunification he retired from teaching and took up a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig under the direction of Karlheinz Hengst , where he was in charge of the DFG project “Historical Place Name Book of Saxony” in the German-Slavic Name Research department .

In the 1980s Hellfritzsch was a member of the editorial board of the Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , in which he publishes regularly.

He lives in Stollberg.

Honors

Hellfritzsch was awarded the Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1988 . In the same year he was appointed senior teacher .

Works

  • Vogtland personal names. Investigations on the material from the districts of Plauen and Oelsnitz. Berlin 1969 (= DS 23).
  • with Ernst Eichler and Johannes Richter: The place names of the Saxon Vogtland. I, II. Plauen 1983 a. 1985 (= Vogtlandmuseum Plauen . Series of publications, issue 50 and 53)
  • with Gunter Bergmann: Small Vogtland Dictionary. Leipzig 1990.
  • Family name book of the Saxon Vogtland. Berlin 1992 (= DS 37), reprint in Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-05-001827-0
  • The Zwickau Franciscan terminology book (around 1460) as an anthroponomastic source. Institute for Slavic Studies. University of Leipzig 1998
  • Personal names of South West Saxony: The personal names of the cities of Zwickau and Chemnitz up to the year 1500 and their significance in the history of language. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl., 2007 ISBN 978-3-86583-162-0
  • (East Central) German onomastics. Hamburg: Baar, 2010 ISBN 978-3-935536-75-2
  • The names of persons and places in the Terminierbuch (Liber Benefactorum) of the Zwickau Franciscan Monastery (around 1460). Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl., 2011 ISBN 978-3-86583-545-1

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personal data
SURNAME Hellfritzsch, Volkmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellfritzsch, Volkmar Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German onomastics and educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen