Ernst Kausen

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Ernst Gerhard Kausen (born December 5, 1948 in Rheinhausen near Duisburg) is a German mathematician , computer scientist and linguist .

Life

After graduating from the Amplonius-Gymnasium Rheinberg , Ernst Kausen studied mathematics, physics and computer science at the Universities of Giessen and Hanover . It was in 1976 in field Mathematics ( Complex Analysis ) at Wolfgang Rothstein , Klaus Kopfermann and Horst Tietz in Hannover for Dr. rer. nat. PhD . He also studied Egyptology , Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Göttingen from 1972–76 .

Ernst Kausen was an IT manager in a global US company from 1977 to 1982 . From 1982 to 2014 he was C-2 professor for mathematics and theoretical computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen-Friedberg (now the Technical University of Central Hesse ), and on March 1, 2014 he retired. In addition, he has been working as a linguist since 1977 with a focus on ancient oriental languages and comparative linguistics .

In 2016, the daily newspaper Die Welt called him a polymath .

Publications (selection)

mathematics

  • 1976. Maximum principle, capacity and continuation of analytical sets. Dissertation at the Technical University of Hanover.
  • 1986. Statistics on the C 64. With Walter Bachmann. Westermann, Braunschweig, ISBN 3-14-138822-9 .
  • 1989. Numerical mathematics with TURBO-Pascal. Hüthig, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-7785-1477-6 (3rd corrected and expanded edition. Mathematica Verlag, Gießen 1994, ISBN 1-80634-081-X ).

Egyptology

  • 1985. The victory stele of Pharaoh Pije (Pianchi). In: Otto Kaiser (Ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament . Volume 1: Legal and business documents. Historical-chronological texts. Delivery 6: Historical-chronological texts. Part 3. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1985, ISBN 3-579-00065-9 , pp. 557ff.
  • 1988. The Daily Temple Ritual in Ancient Egypt. In: Otto Kaiser (Ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. Volume 2: Religious Texts. Delivery 3: rituals and incantations. Part 2. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1988, ISBN 3-579-00068-3 .

Linguistics

  • 2012. The Indo-European languages. From prehistory to the present. Buske, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87548-612-4 .
  • 2013. The language families of the world. Part 1: Europe and Asia. Buske, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-87548-655-1 .
  • 2014. The world's language families. Part 2: Africa - Indo-Pacific - Australia - America. Buske, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-656-8 .
  • 2016. Ernst Kausen tells: The languages ​​of the world. Audiobook, 4 CDs with booklet. Ed. Klaus Sander, supposé, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-86385-013-5 .

Smaller linguistic publications (selection)

  • 2006. The language of the Zaza. ( Full text as PDF file )
  • 2013. The Indo-European language family and the reconstruction of their original language. Voicemail No. 57, I / 2013.
  • 2014. Franz Bopp and the foundation of Indo-European studies. In: Gemstones - 107 great moments in the German language. IFB Verlag German Language, Paderborn.
  • 2015. The Chibcha languages. Amerindian Research - Journal for Indian cultures from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Volume 10, 4/2015, No. 38.
  • 2018. The languages ​​of Sicily. Article in WELT and WELT online, September 3, 2018.
  • 2019. The languages ​​of Africa. Article in WELT and WELT online, February 22, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Heine: It stays in the family . Interview, in: Die Welt , December 10, 2016, p. 28
  2. ↑ See: Hannes Hintermeier: Compared to Basque, Latin is ridiculously simple. This is how you convey science: Ernst Kausen guides you through the languages ​​of the world . In: FAZ No. 67 from March 20, 2017. Features: Audiobook. P. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Chew, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kausen, Ernst Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, computer scientist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinhausen , North Rhine-Westphalia