# Alfred Bammesberger

Alfred Bammesberger (25 September 1938 – 7 January 2025) was a German academic who became Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Linguistics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt.

## Life and career

State examination in English and French 1962–1965, Dr. phil. (Munich 1965), Habilitation (Freiburg 1970). Professor of English and Comparative Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt from 1980, emeritus 2006. Declined appointments: Münster (1979), Würzburg (1988), Freiburg (1989).
Bammesberger was the author of more than 25 scholarly books and numerous essays on historical linguistics, with a focus on Indo-Germanic studies, Old German studies, English studies, and Baltic studies. From 1985 to 2015, Alfred Bammesberger was editor of the journal Historische Sprachforschung/Historical Linguistics and he was still co-editor of the journal Onomasiology Online (2022). He was an external member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Krakow.
Bammesberger died on 7 January 2025, at the age of 86.

## Works (selection)

* Deverbative jan-Verba des Altenglischen - Munich, 1965
* Abstraktbildungen in den baltischen Sprachen (= Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiet der indogermanischen Sprachen. Ergänzungshefte. 22). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, ISBN 3-525-26208-6 (Simultaneously abridged: Freiburg, university, Habilitations-Schrift, 1971).
* Beiträge zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Altenglischen [Contributions to an etymological Dictionary of the Old English language] - Heidelberg : Winter, 1979
* Englische Sprachwissenschaft English Linguistics- Munich: Minerva-Publikation, 1981
* An outline of modern Irish grammar - Heidelberg: Winter, 1983
* Twentieth century Irish prose - Heidelberg: Winter, 1984
* A sketch of diachronic English morphology - Regensburg: Pustet, 1984
* Studien zur Laryngaltheorie [Studies on Laryngeal Theory] - Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1984
* Lateinische Sprachwissenschaft Latin Linguistics - Regensburg : Pustet, 1984
* As editor: The etymological dictionary. Questions of conception and design. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983.
* English etymology. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1984.
* Problems of old English lexicography - Regensburg: Pustet, 1985
* Linguistic notes on Old English poetic texts - Heidelberg: Winter, 1986
* Der Aufbau des germanischen Verbalsystems - Heidelberg: Winter, 1986
* English linguistics - Heidelberg: Winter, 1989
* Britain 400–600 - Heidelberg: Winter, 1990
* As editor with Gaby Waxenberger: Pforzen und Bergakker. New investigations on runic inscriptions (= Historische Sprachforschung. Ergänzungsheft. 41). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-26231-0, (digital copy).
* Old English runes and their continental background - Heidelberg: Winter, 1991
* Akten des VIII. Internationalen Kolloquiums zur Lateinischen Linguistik / International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (1995: Eichstätt). - Heidelberg: Winter, 1996
* Index to the Journal of Comparative Linguistics, Volumes 1–100 (1851–1987). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997.
* As editor: Baltic Studies. Tasks and Methods (= Indo-European Library. Dept. 3: Investigations. 19). Winter, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-8253-0726-3.
* Baltistik - Heidelberg: Winter, 1998
* Repetitorium zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft - Heidelberg: Winter, 1999
* Languages in prehistoric Europe - Heidelberg: Winter, 2003
* Das fuþark und seine einzelsprachlichen Weiterentwicklungen - Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2006 (online ressource)

## Literature about A. Bammesberger

* Bammesberger, Alfred. In: Wilfried Kürschner (ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch. 2 vols. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5, vol. 1, p. 31 f. (online).