User:Ermenrich

This is the Wikipedia page of Jonathan Seelye Martin, AKA Ermenrich. I have a PhD. in medieval German literature and am currently working at Illinois State University as a German professor. I originally started editing Wikipedia to improve coverage on medieval German literary topics, but I've since branched out into other fields, such as biblical and ancient history, as well as a small amount of mostly historical linguistics (Germanic and otherwise). My editing tends to go up and down depending on how much work I have.

My user name is taken from the medieval German form of the name of the ancient Gothic ruler Ermanaric (whenever there is an edit on that article I'm often confused and wonder why people are editing my user page). I originally wanted to join as Dietrich von Bern but that name was taken, so I took the name of his arch-nemesis.

Wikipedia pages I've started or contributed to significantly

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Germanic legend/mythology

Lists of figures in Germanic heroic legend created with lots and lots of help from Berig
Germanic heroic legend created from scratch with lots of help from Berig
Alpharts Tod
Biterolf und Dietleib
Brunhild completely rewrote and expanded
Dietrichs Flucht
Dietrich und Wenezlan
Eckenlied
Ermenrichs Tod
Germanic law
Germanic paganism
Germanic peoples
Goldemar
Gudrun completely rewrote and expanded
Gunther rewrote, expanding
Jüngeres Hildebrandslied significantly expanded
Kudrun expanded significantly
Laurin (poem)
Dietrich von Bern
Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid
Nibelungenklage
Nibelungenlied significantly expanded
Rabenschlacht
Rosengarten zu Worms
Sigenot significantly rewrote and expanded
Sigurd completely rewrote and expanded
Virginal (poem)
Wunderer
Zisa (goddess) - rewrote

Huns

History of the Huns
Hunnic language substantially reworked
Huns wrote or rewrote basically the whole article except for the "History" section, which I reduced greatly in length
Origin of the Huns

Egypt

Hyksos rewrote whole article with sources, despite not actually having time for it

Biblical history

The Exodus - quite a lot of work on origins and historicity sections, as well as some on modern Jewish and Christian commemoration
Milcom
Moloch - rewrote entirely
Pontius Pilate - complete rewrite
Tophet wrote substantial portions of current article

Twentieth-century history

John Demjanjuk rewrote so as to remove emphasis on pro-Demjanjuk conspiracy theories

Linguistics

Afroasiatic languages complete rewrite
Proto-Afroasiatic language complete rewrite
Crimean Gothic complete rewrite
North Sea Germanic complete rewrite

Barnstars

	The Original Barnstar
	For huge labours improving coverage of medieval German heroic narratives. Alarichall (talk) 18:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

	German Barnstar of National Merit
	I thought it was about time to award you this for your excellent contributions to ye olde sagas, German or not. Vami _IV✠ 13:46, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		This barnstar is rewarded to you for your particularly fine contribution to the Huns article! You took what was a somewhat poorly organized article, and made it much more organized! You also helped start work in improving the citations on the page. It is now much more readable thanks to you! So here's a barnstar!--Beneficii (talk) 15:27, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

		The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar A new editor on the right path
		You joined our community only a couple of months ago, but you have improved quite a couple of articles. Thank you for your contributions. Borsoka (talk) 16:06, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For a really helpful article on Die Rabenschlacht. Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 13:08, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

		Barnstar
		I am glad to offer you this barnstar for helping sort out an old German translation of an arcane 13th century text in Tibetan (and another one in Tocharian). Thank you! पाटलिपुत्र Pat (talk) 09:45, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

		The Christianity Barnstar
		For the extensive amount of effort improving Pontius Pilate. You definitely deserve this barnstar. Jerm (talk) 20:37, 20 December 2020 (UTC)