Wolfgang Kleiber (Linguist)

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Wolfgang Kleiber (born November 21, 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 4, 2020 ) was a German linguist and from 1970 until his retirement in 1997 he was Professor of Historical Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Lahr in 1950 , Wolfgang Kleiber studied German , Romance languages (French) and history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In his hometown he received his doctorate in 1955 with a dissertation on the subject of the field names of Kippenheim and Kippenheimweiler under Friedrich Maurer , passed the state exams in 1958 and 1962 and qualified as a professor in 1968 with the thesis Otfrid von Weissenburg : Studies on the handwritten tradition and studies on the structure of the Gospel book .

From 1957 to 1970 Kleiber was head of the German department of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies in Freiburg. In 1970 he was appointed professor of historical linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University . From 1976 onwards, Kleiber headed “Department II: Language and Folk Research” at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz (IGL), which he set up in 1974 on his initiative. During his term of office, the publication series “Mainz Studies on Linguistic and Folk Research” was launched. Under Kleiber's project management, interdisciplinary and international cooperation resulted in the multi-volume word atlas of continental Germanic winegrowing terminology (WKW), which is unique in this form , funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

Kleiber was a member of numerous scientific committees and associations, including since 1975 the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

After his retirement in 1997, he remained active and turned again to Otfrid von Weißenburg, who had already been the subject of his habilitation thesis. From 1999 to 2003 the new four-volume edition of Otfrid's Gospel Book was created, also funded by the DFG.

Wolfgang Kleiber died in June 2020 at the age of 90.

Research priorities

Kleiber dealt with German language history, dialectology , folklore and onomatology with a focus on Romance-Germanic language contact, historical technical language and dialect cartography, as well as medieval literature.

Honors

  • 1968: Friedrich Metz Prize

Works (selection)

  • The field names of Kippenheim and Kippenheimweiler. A contribution to onomatology and linguistic history on the Upper Rhine. Albert, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957. DNB 452436818
  • Otfrid von Weissenburg. Studies on the handwritten tradition and studies on the structure of the gospel book . Francke, Bern / Munich 1971, ISBN 978-3-7720-0648-7 .
  • with Konrad Kunze , Heinrich Löffler : Historical southwest German language atlas based on land records from the 13th to 15th centuries Century (in continuation of the foundations created in the Institute for Historical Regional Studies in Freiburg under the direction of Friedrich Maurer) . Francke, Bern / Munich 1979, ISBN 978-3-7720-1440-6 .
  • On the linguistic structure of German winemaker terminology . Academy of Sciences and Literature / Steiner, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 978-3-515-03386-2 .
  • with Wolf-Dietrich Zernecke (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz): Der Klauer: a Rhineland-Hessian field name. Documentation and interpretation . Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-515-06954-0 .
  • Otfrid von Weißenburg Gospel Book . Part 1: Edition based on the Heidelberg manuscript P (Codex Pal. Lat. 52) and the manuscript D (Codex Discissus: Bonn, Berlin / Krakau Wolfenbüttel) . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-11-092124-3 .
  • Otfrid von Weißenburg Gospel Book. tape 1 : Edition according to the Vienna Codex 2687 , Part 2: Introduction and apparatus . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-64051-0 .

Editing

  • Wolfgang Kleiber (Hrsg.): Word atlas of continental Germanic winegrowing terminology (WKW) . Contributors: Sigrid Bingenheimer, Mathias Gotschy. Publishing body: Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Commission for German Philology, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990/96, ISBN 978-3-484-10665-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the Wolfgang Kleiber. In: Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook: Biographical and Bibliographical Data of German-Speaking Linguists of the Present (Volume 1 A – L, pp. 457–458). Special edition. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 . Source via: [1]
  3. ↑ DNB 482058412 Habilitation in the catalog of the German National Library. Accessed June 14, 2020
  4. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. (em.) Wolfgang Kleiber, Curriculum Vitae. SciPort RLP, information about research achievements of the research institutions of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ We mourn the loss of our long-standing board member Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kleiber (died June 4th, 2020). Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c We mourn our longstanding colleague Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kleiber (died June 4th, 2020). Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, FB 05 - German Institute, June 9, 2020, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  7. ^ The members of the academy: Prof. Dr. phil. Wolfgang Kleiber. Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  8. ^ Project: New edition of Otfrids Gospel Book. German Research Foundation (DFG), accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Obituaries of Wolfgang Kleiber. In: VRM grief. VRM GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz, June 13, 2020, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. (em.) Wolfgang Kleiber, profile. SciPort RLP, information about research achievements of the research institutions of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Kleiber, Wolfgang. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on June 13, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
personal data
SURNAME Kleiber, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2020