Wolfgang Jungandreas

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Wolfgang Jungandreas (born December 9, 1894 in Görlitz ; † June 17, 1991 in Konz ) was a German linguist and university professor who dealt in particular with Germanic and German philology and the Silesian dialect .

Life

Studies, work on the Silesian dialect and professorships in Wroclaw and Poznan

After graduating from high school, Jungandreas began studying linguistics and antiquity at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau . In 1921, while still a student, he published his first book privately with the title History of the Altenburg Family Jungandreas . In 1923 he presented at the University of Breslau his promotion to Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the topic of Silesian verb formation . In the following years he worked as an employee of the German Institute of the University of Breslau with the Silesian dialect and wrote various specialist books on it.

In 1933 he also obtained his habilitation at the University of Breslau with a habilitation thesis on the history of the Silesian dialect in the Middle Ages: Studies on the language and settlement in East Central Germany . He then edited the Silesian dictionary together with Theodor Siebs with the support of the Province of Silesia between 1935 and 1938 .

In 1940 Jungandreas accepted a professorship for linguistics at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau and at the same time taught as a professor at the University of Poznan from 1940 to 1945 until the end of the Second World War . He was a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia .

Professorship in Göttingen and dictionary of Lower Saxony

After the end of the war, Jungandreas accepted a professorship for linguistics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1945 and taught there until 1951.

At the same time, in December 1945, he took over the management of the Lower Saxony Dictionary from Friedrich Neumann , which at the Department for Lower Saxony Dialect Research of the Department of German Philology at the University of Göttingen deals with the publication of one of the large-scale German dictionaries and the vocabulary of the dialects of today's federal states Lower Saxony and Bremen recorded. Turning away from the original concept of a folklore-oriented dictionary, he began to work on the manuscript, although the most important prerequisite for this - the systematic ordering of the source material - had not yet taken place.

After reviewing the existing material, Jungandreas designed two further questionnaires to supplement the previously created questionnaires. In 1951 Jungandreas published the first delivery of the Lower Saxony dictionary , which appeared again two years later with a modified foreword.

Professorship in Mainz

In 1951 Jungandreas finally accepted the call to a professorship for linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , so that the position of head of the Lower Saxon dictionary had to be filled with Hans Neumann .

In the following period, in addition to his teaching activities, he dealt with the Moselle-Franconian dialects and showed in numerous publications that many Moselle settlement and field names go back to Celtic-Roman roots and that the Moselle was the largest Roman language island on German soil until the High Middle Ages Has. This area, the Moselle Romania , thus attested to the continued existence of the Gallo-Roman population beyond the migration period .

Publications

  • History of the Altenburg family Jungandreas , Emden 1921
  • Silesian verb formation , dissertation University of Breslau, 1923
  • Contributions to research on the settlement of Silesia and the history of the development of the Silesian dialect , Breslau 1928
  • Texts on the history of the Silesian dialects , Breslau 1931
  • On the history of the Silesian dialect in the Middle Ages. Studies on the language and settlement in East Central Germany. (Habilitation from the University of Breslau, 1933). Breslau 1937 (= German studies: B. Schlesische Reihe. Volume 3); Reprint, obtained from Wolfgang Kleiber, Mainz 1987
  • Silesian dictionary , co-editor Theodor Siebs , Breslau 1935
  • German dialect texts from the later Middle Ages , Breslau 1936
  • The oldest Silesian whale book , co-editor Ernst Boehlich , Breslau 1938
  • History of the German and English language , 3 volumes, Göttingen 1946–1949
  • Gudrun: The Hildeneil , Göttingen 1947
  • The Gudrun legend in the Upper and Netherlands: A prehistory of the epic , Göttingen 1948
  • Poetry and truth: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Gütersloh 1948
  • Lower Saxony dictionary , Neumünster, 8 volumes, first delivery 1951, new edition 1953
  • Historical lexicon of settlement and field names in the Moselle region . Series of publications on Trier national history and folklore, Trier 1962/63
  • On the history of Romansh in the Moselle: Studies on phonetic chronology and wine lexicons , Wiesbaden 1979
  • Linguistic studies on Germanic antiquity , Wiesbaden 1981
  • The influence of the Carolingian renaissance on the central Rhineland , Stuttgart 1986

literature

  • Richard Laufner (editor): Commemoration for Wolfgang Jungandreas on the occasion of his 70th birthday on December 9, 1964: Contributions to the history of German language, regional, folk and ancient history , Trier 1964
  • Wolfgang Haubrichs : Obituary for Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jungandreas . In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch . Volume 31 (1991), pp. 17-19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 414.
personal data
SURNAME Jungandreas, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, dialectologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1991
Place of death Conc