... 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. 2023. Antonio Ive (1851–1937) – Vergessener Erforscher verklungener Sprachen. Biographie des Monats Dezember 2023. Online-Publikation.
- Kriszt, Roman, and Hubert Bergmann. 2023. Carniolus ex Simsuria – Spuren slowenischer Zuwanderung in Pama / Bijelo Selo um 1700. Burgenländische Heimatblätter 85, H. 4: 3-28.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2023. Sisis Baedeker – Alexander Freiherr von Warsberg (1836‒1889). Biographie des Monats November 2022. Online-Publikation.
- Bergmann Hubert (Alleinautor), in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, 73. Lieferung. 2022.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2022. Ordensname, in: Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online.
- Bergmann, Hubert. 2022. Rezension: R. Kohlheim / V. Kohlheim, Duden: Das große Vornamenlexikon. Herkunft, Bedeutung und Gebrauch von über 8.000 Vornamen. 6. Auflage, Berlin 2021. Österreichische Namenforschung 49 (2021): 229-241.