... 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 (Alleinautor), in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, 70. Lieferung. 2019.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2019. Zwei Lienzer Musterregister aus der Zeit um 1400 namenkundlich betrachtet. Osttiroler Heimatblätter. Heimatkundliche Beilage des "Osttiroler Boten": 1-4.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2019. Hugo Steiner (1878–1969) – ein Leben für Esperanto. Biographie des Monats August 2019. Online-Publikation.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2019. Zwei Lienzer Musterregister aus der Zeit um 1400 als namenkundliche Quellen. Harald Bichlmeier and Pohl, Heinz-Dieter. Akten des XXXIII. Namenkundlichen Symposiums in Kals am Großglockner. 7. bis 10. Juni 2018. Hamburg: baar.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2019. Bescheidener König im Reich des Triglav: Julius Kugy (1858-1944). Biographie des Monats Februar 2019. Online-Publikation.
- Hohensinner, Karl, and Hubert Bergmann. 2018. Österreichische Familiennamen kontrastiv. Onomastica Uralica 13: 5-25.