Alfred Bammesberger
Alfred Bammesberger (born 25 September 1938 in Munich) is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Linguistics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt.
Scientific career
[edit]State examination in English and French 1962–1965, Dr. phil. (Munich 1965), Habilitation (Freiburg 1970). Professor of English and Comparative Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt from 1980, emeritus 2006. Declined appointments: Münster (1979), Würzburg (1988), Freiburg (1989).
Bammesberger is the author of more than 25 scholarly books and numerous essays on historical linguistics, with a focus on Indo-Germanic studies, Old German studies, English studies, and Baltic studies. From 1985 to 2015, Alfred Bammesberger was editor of the journal Historische Sprachforschung/Historical Linguistics and he is still co-editor of the journal Onomasiology Online (2022). He is an external member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Krakow.
Works (selection)
[edit]- Deverbative jan-Verba des Altenglischen - München, 1965
- Abstraktbildungen in den baltischen Sprachen (= Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiet der indogermanischen Sprachen. Ergänzungshefte. 22). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, ISBN 3-525-26208-6 (Simultaneously abridged: Freiburg, university, Habilitations-Schrift, 1971).
- Beiträge zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Altenglischen [Contributions to an etymological Dictionary of the Old English language] - Heidelberg : Winter, 1979
- Englische Sprachwissenschaft English Linguistics- München: Minerva-Publikation, 1981
- An outline of modern Irish grammar - Heidelberg: Winter, 1983
- Twentieth century Irish prose - Heidelberg: Winter, 1984
- A sketch of diachronic English morphology - Regensburg: Pustet, 1984
- Studien zur Laryngaltheorie [Studies on Laryngeal Theory] - Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1984
- Lateinische Sprachwissenschaft Latin Linguistics - Regensburg : Pustet, 1984
- As editor: The etymological dictionary. Questions of conception and design. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983.
- English etymology. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1984.
- Problems of old English lexicography - Regensburg: Pustet, 1985
- Linguistic notes on Old English poetic texts - Heidelberg: Winter, 1986
- Der Aufbau des germanischen Verbalsystems - Heidelberg: Winter, 1986
- English linguistics - Heidelberg: Winter, 1989
- Britain 400–600 - Heidelberg: Winter, 1990
- As editor with Gaby Waxenberger: Pforzen und Bergakker. New investigations on runic inscriptions (= Historische Sprachforschung. Ergänzungsheft. 41). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-26231-0, (digital copy).
- Old English runes and their continental background - Heidelberg: Winter, 1991
- Akten des VIII. Internationalen Kolloquiums zur Lateinischen Linguistik / International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (1995: Eichstätt). - Heidelberg: Winter, 1996
- Index to the Journal of Comparative Linguistics, Volumes 1–100 (1851–1987). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997.
- As editor: Baltic Studies. Tasks and Methods (= Indo-European Library. Dept. 3: Investigations. 19). Winter, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-8253-0726-3.
- Baltistik - Heidelberg: Winter, 1998
- Repetitorium zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft - Heidelberg: Winter, 1999
- Languages in prehistoric Europe - Heidelberg: Winter, 2003
- Das fuþark und seine einzelsprachlichen Weiterentwicklungen - Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2006 (online ressource)
Literature about A. Bammesberger
[edit]- Bammesberger, Alfred. In: Wilfried Kürschner (ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch. 2 vols. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5, vol. 1, p. 31 f. (online).
External links
[edit]- Literature by and about Alfred Bammesberger in the Catalog of the German National Library
- Alfred Bammesberger on the website of the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- Alfred Bammesberger as Co-Editor of Onomasiology Online
- Editorial of Historische Sprachforschung vol. 128 (2015) on the occasion of Bammesbergers retirement after 30 years as editor [in German].
- Alfred Bammesberger on the website of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.