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

  • Hubert Bergmann,. 2009. Lexikographie.
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  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2009. United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names /Twenty-fifth session / Nairobi, 5–12 May 2009. Working Paper No. 13: Geographical Names and the Railway Industry.. In .
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  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2009. Austria's multiethnic heritage as reflected by geographical names. In Geographical Names as a Part of the Cultural Heritage, eds. P. Jordan, Bergmann, H., Cheetham, C., and Hausner, I., 93-97. Wiener Schriften Zur Geographie Und Kartographie, Vol. 18. Wien: Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung der Universität Wien / Kartographie und Geoinformation.
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  • Jordan, Peter, Hubert Bergmann, Catherine Cheetham, and Isolde Hausner, eds. 2009. Geographical Names as a Part of the Cultural Heritage. Wiener Schriften Zur Geographie Und Kartographie, Vol. 18. Wien: Selbstverlag des Instituts für Geographie und Regionalforschung der Universität Wien / Kartographie und Geoinformation.
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  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2008. Rezension: Brendler, Andrea; Brendler, Silvio (Hrsg.). 2007. Europäische Personennamensysteme. Ein Handbuch von Abasisch bis Zentralladinisch. Hamburg: Baar (= Lehr- und Handbücher zur Onomastik 2). In: Zunamen, Zeitschrift für Namenforschung 3 (2008): 92-97.. Zunamen/Surnames 2008: 92-97.
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  • Bergmann, Hubert. 2008. The Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kartographische Ortsnamenkunde (AKO) as the Austrian model of a national names board.
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