!!!Dialektforschung

Dialect Studies (dialectology): Following early attempts during the 
age of Humanism ("De Marcomannis" by W. Lazius) and in the 
18%%sup th/%  century (C. A. Heumann, Opuscula 1747, L. Huebner, 
B. Moll-Schrank, C. F. Nicolai, B. Hermann, D. Denis), the 
scientific study of dialects in Austria and their history experienced 
a first boom in the 1%%sup st/%  half of the 19%%sup th/%  century (M. 
Hoefer, F. Tschischka, K. Prugger v. Pruggenheim, J. Bergmann, E. 
Winder, P. Lessiak). The "Bayrisches Woerterbuch" ("Bavarian 
Dictionary"), edited 1827-1837 by A. Schmeller, also contained many 
Austrian entries and promoted the publication of Austrian  Dialect 
Dictionaries. The first university lectures on the subject were held 
by J. Schatz around 1900 at Innsbruck; his example was followed by J. 
Seemueller and A. Pfalz at Vienna, and L. Jutz at Graz. W. Steinhauser 
combined dialectology with toponymy, the study of place names. Along 
with their lexicographic work, A. Pfalz, W. Steinhauser, E. 
Kranzmayer, P. Wiesinger and M. Hornung also engaged in dialect 
geography and contributed to the growing importance of the subject.

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The central organ of modern dialect studies in Austria is the 
"Woerterbuchkanzlei" (since 1994 "Institut fuer Dialekt- und 
Namenlexika") of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, founded 
by J. Seemueller in 1911. It has published the "Woerterbuch der 
bairischen Mundarten in Oesterreich" ("Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects 
in Austria", 1%%sup st/%  edition 1963). Other scholars who have 
contributed greatly to the recording and study of dialects and 
dialectal variations in Austria are K. Weinhold, A. Hartmann, W. 
Pailler, J. Schlossar, O. Moro, J. R. Buenker, A. Jeitteles, 
J. V. Vogl, J. Wirth, M. S. Suess, M. Dengg, M. Schuster, H. 
Schikola, J. Neubauer, F. Roitinger.

!Literature
Die Wiener dialektologische Schule, ed. by P. Wiesinger, 
1983.


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