Herbert Ernst Wiegand 08 January 1936 – 03 January 2018

08 January 1936 – 03 January 2018 EURALEX and the international lexicographic community lost a prolific and respected colleague and friend with the passing away of Professor Herbert Ernst Wiegand on 3 January 2018. Wiegand had a longstanding relation with EURALEX. As a participant in the LEX’eter ’83 conference in Exeter that hailed the establishment of the new lexicographic association, he was one of the founding members of EURALEX. At this conference he delivered the paper ‘On the Structure and Contents of a General Theory of Lexicography’, which was published in Reinhard Hartmann’s LEX’eter ’83 Proceedings, the first volume of the new series Lexicographica Series Maior, co-founded by Wiegand. Another contribution within the EURALEX domain was his keynote paper entitled ‘Wissen, Wissensrepräsentation und Printwörterbücher’ at EURALEX 2000, the Ninth EURALEX International Congress, held in Stuttgart. Already with his 1983 paper, Wiegand clearly indicated the direction and emphasis of his continued metalexicographic research: establishing and improving a general theory of lexicography. His 487 publications during the period 1967-2017 bear witness of his consistent and continuous dedication to the aims of exploring and explicating the nature and extent of lexicography as an independent scientific discipline, directed at its own practice that should lead to the introduction and fostering of the cultural practice of dictionary use

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