Wolfgang Haubrichs

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Wolfgang Haubrichs (born December 22, 1942 in Saarbrücken ) is a German medievalist and name researcher .

Life

Wolfgang Haubrichs is the son of the lawyer Willi Haubrichs and his wife Erika (née Schaap). Born and raised in Saarbrücken, he completed his Abitur at the Ludwigsgymnasium there in 1961 . In the same year he began studying German , history and philosophy at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at the University of Bonn . In 1967 he did his doctorate with Hans Eggers on a topic about Otfried von Weißenburg . He then spent two years researching the interrelationships between the old German biblical epic and the East Franconian aristocratic and monastic culture of the 9th century as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation . During this time he taught as an assistant to Hans Eggers at the German Institute of Saarland University. In 1972 he became an assistant professor in the local department for modern linguistics and literary studies . In 1975 the habilitation took place on a topic about the Georgslied and the Georgskult . In the same year he was appointed professor. Haubrichs retired in 2007 and was senior professor in Saarbrücken from 2011 to 2015 .

Act

From the beginning of his scientific activity he dealt with the late Carolingian period , especially with the Prüm Abbey and the Weißenburg monastery and Otfried von Weißenburg who worked there . In the following he expanded his interests to include the Staufer period and the late Middle Ages . Among other things, he deals with the poetry of the High Middle Ages , the transmissions of French chansons de geste by Elisabeth of Lorraine and the German versions and the French model of the pilgrimage of the dreaming monk (Pèlerinage de la vie humaine) by the Cistercian Guillaume de Digulleville from the 14th century Century.

Since the 1970s he has been concerned with the early medieval history of the Saar-Moselle region, combining research results from an interdisciplinary perspective and research results from historical studies. Together with the medieval archeologist Frauke Stein , the Romanist Max Pfister as well as historians and geographers, he initiated the annual colloquia at Saarland University since 1979 on the subject of "Name and Settlement", which deals with the early medieval settlement and language history of the Saar-Moselle -Explore space in an interdisciplinary manner. From the analysis and synthesis of archaeological, onomastic , historical and geographical sources, the colloquia provided important research results, including on the development of the Franco-German language border . As one of the results of a comprehensive place-names in the collection could Archives for settlement and field names of the Saarland and the Germano-speaking Lorraine are created.

In 1970 he founded the interdisciplinary journal for literary studies and linguistics together with Helmut Kreuzer , Rul Gunzenhäuser and Wolfgang Klein . Until 2011 he was their co-editor.

From 1998 he was project manager of the dictionary of the German winegrowing language, which was completed in 2011 .

Memberships

Awards

  • 1997: Henning Kaufmann Prize to promote German name research

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • The beginnings: attempts at vernacular writing in the early Middle Ages (approx. 700-1050 / 60). In: History of German literature from the beginning to the beginning of the modern age. Vol. 1, 1. Tübingen 1995.
  • Georgslied and Georgslegende in the early Middle Ages: text and reconstruction. Königstein 1979. (Habilitation thesis)
  • Ordo as a form. Structural studies on number composition with Otfrid von Weißenburg and in Carolingian literature. Tübingen 1969. (Dissertation)
Editions
  • Acculturation: Problems of a Germanic-Romanesque cultural synthesis in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Edited with Dieter Hägermann , Jörg Jarnut , Berlin / New York 2004.
  • Between Germany and France. Elisabeth of Lorraine, Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken . Edited with Hans-Walter Herrmann , Gerhard Sauder . Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 2002, ISBN 978-3-86110-319-6 .
  • Theodisca. Contributions to the Old High German and Old Low German language and literature in the culture of the early Middle Ages. An international symposium in Schönmühl near Penzberg from March 13 to 16, 1997. Ed. With Ernst Hellgardt , Reiner Hildebrandt, Stephan Müller , Klaus Ridder, Berlin / New York 2000.
  • Wolfram Studies, 16: Aspects of the 12th Century. Freising Colloquium 1998. Ed. With Eckart C. Lutz, Gisela Vollmann-Profe, Berlin 2000.
  • Noun et gens. On the historical significance of early medieval personal names. Edited with Dieter Geuenich , Jörg Jarnut, Berlin / New York 1997.
  • Between the languages: settlement and field names in Germanic-Romanic border areas. Contributions from the Saarbrücken Colloquium from 9. – 11. Oct. 1980. Edited with Hans Ramge, Saarbrücken 1983.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Besse: History of the WDW project. February 20, 2010, accessed October 16, 2014 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Haubrichs, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanic Medievalist and name researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken