This essential work with its more than a thousand maps and commentaries is the first to document the surname stock of the Federal Republic of Germany by statistical occurrence and geographical distribution. It meets the interests of linguists with a grammatical part (three volumes) dealing with the phonematics, graphematics, morphematics and syntagmatics of family names, while cultural historians and population historians are served with a lexical part (three volumes - surnames by place of origin and domicile, by occupation and by nicknames, by given names). The atlas provides a new basis...

This essential work with its more than a thousand maps and commentaries is the first to document the surname stock of the Federal Republic of Germany by statistical occurrence and geographical distribution. It meets the interests of linguists with a grammatical part (three volumes) dealing with the phonematics, graphematics, morphematics and syntagmatics of family names, while cultural historians and population historians are served with a lexical part (three volumes - surnames by place of origin and domicile, by occupation and by nicknames, by given names). The atlas provides a new basis...

Die Reihe Texte und Textgeschichte, begrundet von der Wurzburger Forschergruppe Prosa des deutschen Mittelalters unter ihrem Leiter Kurt Ruh, enthalt Ausgaben und Untersuchungen zu breituberlieferten und wirkungsmachtigen Gebrauchstexten des deutschen Spatmittelalters, dargeboten und aufbereitet unter Betonung der kommunikativen Funktion von Literatur, dem Wechselverhaltnis von Autor, Schreiber und Publikum. Das bedeutet die primare Berucksichtigung der Textmutationen im Verlaufe der Uberlieferung; wie diese editorisch optimal darzustellen sind, ist das methodische Ziel...