Editing Grossglockner (section)

== Etymology ==
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The name ''Glocknerer'' is first documented in a 1561 map designed by the [[Vienna|Viennese]] cartographer [[Wolfgang Lazius]]. The denotation ''Glogger'' is mentioned in a 1583 description of the Tyrolean [[Kals am Großglockner|Kals]] legal district, then referring to the whole ridge south of the Alpine main chain. In the 1760s, the ''Atlas Tyrolensis'' listed a ''Glockner Berg'', the prefix ''Gross-'' ("great") is not mentioned before the first expedition in 1799.

According to the scholar [[Belsazar Hacquet]] (1735–1815), ''Glockner'' is possibly derived from German: ''Glocke'' ("[[Bell (instrument)|bell]]"), referring to the mountain's characteristic shape. It may also be a [[Germanisation|Germanised]] version of the [[Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps|Alpine Slavic]] word ''Klek'' ("mountain"), as maintained in the Slovene name ''Veliki Klek''.