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Eberhard Kranzmayer (1897-1975) was an Austrian philologist, dialectologist and, prior to 1945, also ethnologist of the German language. Kranzmayer has long been considered the most important dialectologist of German in Austria, yet his incisive roles in the Third Reich and his perspectives on German have only in the 2010s and 2020s been critically scrutinized.

Life and education
Kranzmayer was born as the youngest of six children into a Klagenfurt, Carinthia, family of coppersmiths of long local lineage. He learned, atypical for Carinthian's ethnic Germans during the Habsburg Empire, Slovene with a local farm family.