<blockquote>„In these activities Baldinger was helped by the fact that he was a paradigm of knowledge, an abîme de science. He gives the reader the impression that he has read everything, be it words for stupidity, pisciculture in the French region of Bresse, the judicial terminology used in the Gascogne, the ,Way’ in the Romance languages, the technical terms of the tobacco industry, the subtle nuances of official announcements, or slang names for the head and their significance for linguistic systems, etc. His productivity was enormous: the list of his publications in the volume of selected papers presented to him on his seventieth birthday contains 70 monographs, 261 papers, and 1,890 reviews […]. Baldinger himself was not only a workaholic, but also knew how to make others work; this led to a number of dictionaries (Dictionnaire de l’Ancien Gascon, Dictionnaire Étymologique de l’Ancien Français). Serious scholar though he was, Baldinger possessed a wonderful gift to make fun of himself. He was the opposite of many dull lexicographers, whom he often derided. It is no wonder that he particularly loved authors who displayed linguistic creativity and esprit, such as François Rabelais in the sixteenth century or San-Antonio (Frédéric Dard) in the twentieth century“ (Raible, 2009, 223-224).
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Baldinger, „Der Max Niemeyer Verlag“, 1995, 183 (P); Drüll, HGL 1933-1986, 2009, 89-90; Storost, 300 Jahre romanische Sprachen u. Literaturen, 2001, II, 433; Max Pfister, Nachruf, ZrP 123, 2007, 820-826; Wolfgang Raible, „Kurt Baldinger. Biographical Memoires”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 153, N°.2, June 2009, 222-224.
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