Mag. Dr.

Hubert Bergmann

Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 2606

E-Mail
hubert.bergmann(at)oeaw.ac.at

... has been part of the research unit DH Research&Infrastructure since 2024. He is primarily involved in prosopographical research as part of the PFP portal.

He studied Slavic and Romance languages and literature in Innsbruck, Moscow and Forlì and received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Klagenfurt in 2003. From 2000–2013, he worked at the Institute for Lexicography of Austrian Dialects and Names of the OeAW as editor of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ), and from 2013–2023 (under changing institutional conditions) as editor of the now completed Austrian Biographical Dictionary (ÖBL). Hubert Bergmann is primarily interested in biography and onomastics and a member of expert bodies such as the Austrian Board on Geographical Names (AKO) or the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN). He is also on the editing board of "Jezikoslovni zapiski" (Ljubljana) and on the reviewers’ committee of "Voprosy onomastiki" (Moscow and Yekaterinburg)".


Publications

  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2020. Selfmademan und Tycoon mit Weitblick: Pasquale Freiherr von Revoltella (1795–1869). Biographie des Monats Juni 2020. Online-Publikation.
  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2020. The Habsburg family in Central European toponymy – continuities and breaks. Österreichische Namenforschung 46-47: 179-207.
  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2020. Doppelrezension: J. Ebner, Wörterbuch historischer Berufsbezeichnungen. Berlin/Boston, 2015 --- D. Kremer (Hg.), Namen und Berufe. Akten der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Namenforschung und des Namenkundlichen Zentrums der Universität Leipzig. Leipzig, 21. und 22. Oktober 2017. Leipzig, 2018. Österreichische Namenforschung 46-47: 229-241.
  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2020. Rufnamen in Osttiroler Hof- und Familiennamen. Harald Bichlmeier and Pohl, Heinz-Dieter. Vorträge auf dem XXXIV. Namenkundlichen Symposium in Kals am Großglockner, 13.-16. Juni 2019. Österreichische Namenforschung. Beihefte. Wien: Praesens Verlag.
  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2019. Berührungen zwischen Mundartforschung und Volkslied. Jahrbuch des Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes 67-68: 29-42.
  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2019. Claudio Ugussi - Chronist Istriens in Wort und Bild. Literatur und Kritik.