Heinz-Dieter Pohl


Heinz-Dieter Pohl is an Austrian linguist and onomatologist.

Life

Pohl is the son of gymnasium professor Heinz Pohl and Hermine Pohl. He studied classical philology and history at the University of Vienna, later comparative linguistics with a focus on Slavic studies.
From 1967 to 1972 Pohl worked at the University of Vienna's Institute for General and Indo-European Linguistics, and in 1972 moved to the University of Pedagogic Sciences as the professor of general and diachronic linguistics from 1979. Pohl retired on 1 October 2007 but is still active in research and education.
Focus areas of Pohl's later research include the study of placenames, German–Slovenian language contact, Bavarian–Austrian dialectology, Austrian German, ancient historical linguistics, diachronic-comparative study of languages and sociolinguistics.
Pohl is a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Austrian Board on Geographical Names and the . He is also a member of the Society for the Bavarian Language and Dialects, which studies Bavarian languages in Germany, Austria and Italy.
From 2000 to 2007 Pohl was a member of the Muttersprache society in Vienna.

Awards

On 10 November 2005 Pohl was awarded the of the Council of Carinthian Slovenians and the Christian Cultural Society of the Christian-conservative Advocacy Organisation of Slovenians in Klagenfurt. According to the award committee, the linguists of the university "have greatly helped to ease the view of the Carinthian past and to see bilingualism as somewhat self-explanatory".

Partial bibliography

  • Kleine Kärntner Mundartkunde, mit Wörterbuch. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1989, .
  • Zur Geschichte und zur Unabhängigkeit Sloweniens und Kroatiens. Hintergründe und historische Daten zum Zerfall Jugoslawiens.
  • Kärnten – deutsche und slowenische Namen / Koroška – slovenska in nemška imena. In: Österreichische Namenforschung. Zeitschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Namenforschung, issue 2–3. Year 28. Praesens, 2000,. Later work: Unsere slowenischen Ortsnamen Mohorjeva/Hermagoras, Klagenfurt 2010,
  • Die Sprache der Kärntner Küche. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt 2004,.
  • Contribution: Slowenisches Erbe in Kärnten und Österreich. Ein Überblick. In: Karl Anderwald, Peter Filzmaier, Karl Hren : Kärntner Jahrbuch für Politik 2005. Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 2005,, pp. 127–160.
  • Die österreichische Küchensprache. A lexicon of Austrian culinary specialities. Praesens, Vienna 2007,.
  • With Birgit Schwaner: Das Buch der österreichischen Namen. Ursprung - Eigenart - Bedeutung. Pichler, Vienna 2007,.
  • Kleines Kärntner Wörterbuch. 2nd expanded edition. Heyn, Klagenfurt 2007, .
  • Von Apfelstrudel bis Zwetschkenröster. A small handbook of Austrian culinary linguistics. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2008,.
  • Unsere slowenischen Ortsnamen / Naša slovenska krajevna imena. Mohorjeva / Hermagoras, Klagenfurt 2010, .
  • With V.I. Lewizkij: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Winnyzja, Nowa Knyha Verlag 2010.
  • Die Bergnamen der Hohen Tauern. Oesterreichischer Alpenverein & Nationalpark Hohe Tauern, Innsbruck 2009.
  • With Willi Seifert: Die Bergnamen der Zillertaler Alpen, ein Gipfelbuch der besonderen Art. Ginzling, Hochgebirgs-Naturpark Zillertaler Alpen 2019.