Wilfried Seibicke

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Oskar Wilfried Seibicke (born January 5, 1931 in Bernsdorf , Upper Lusatia ; † September 11, 2009 ) was a German philologist , onomologist and was considered the "first name pope".

Life

Seibicke studied German, Nordic and general linguistics at the Universities of Leipzig and Bonn . In 1967 he received his doctorate from the latter . After receiving his doctorate, he worked at Heidelberg University from 1967 to 1994 , most recently as Academic Director .

His main research interests were area linguistics , historical linguistics, stylistics and name research. Through Name Research and the How Do We Call Our Child Advisor? he became known to a wide audience. His scientific activity was completed by the standard lexicon of the Historical German First Name Book.

For decades, Seibicke provided information on first names and commented on court decisions, mostly in the trade journal Das Standesamt . The Wilfried Seibicke Institute for Name Research, in cooperation with the Society for the German Language, provides information on the origin, meaning and permissibility of first names.

Publications

  • What do we call our child? A first name book , ed. from the Society for German Language. Lueneburg 1962.
  • Contributions to the dialect of North Upper Saxony (east of the Elbe) . Cologne / Graz 1967 (= Central German Research 53; also Phil. Diss. Bonn 1967).
  • TECHNOLOGY. Attempt of a history of the word family around τέχνη in Germany from the 16th century to around 1830 . Düsseldorf 1968 (= history of technology in individual representations 10).
  • How do you write good German? A style guide . Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1969 (= Duden-Taschenbuch 7).
  • How do you say elsewhere? Landscape differences in German usage . Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1972, 2nd edition 1983 (= Duden-Taschenbuch 15).
  • German technical and scientific language. Inventory - theory - history , co-author Lubomír Drozd. Wiesbaden 1973.
  • as ed. with Friedhelm Debus : Germanistische Linguistik 131–133 (= Reader zur onamenkunde III, 2 - toponymy ). 1996.
  • First names. Wiesbaden 1972 (= supplement to the mother tongue , NF, 2). New edition: 2nd and 3rd edition Frankfurt / M. 1999 and 2002.
  • The personal names in German. Berlin / New York 1982 (= Göschen Collection 2218), ²2008.
  • Historical German first name book (with documents from around 1400) . Volume 1-5. Berlin / New York 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Seibicke, Wilfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seibicke, Oskar Wilfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and onomatologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernsdorf (Upper Lusatia)
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2009