Anja Voeste

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Anja Voeste (born June 19, 1965 in Bad Pyrmont ) is a German specialist in German .

Voeste completed a teaching degree for German and French at the University of Hanover . She completed this in 1992 with the first state examination, before completing a doctoral degree from 1994 to 1997. In 1998 she completed her doctorate with a thesis on the historical declension of the adjective . This was followed by teaching activities at the universities of Potsdam , Hanover, Vienna , Augsburg and Salzburg as well as at the Free University of Berlin . In 2007 she obtained her habilitation with an examination of word segmentation in the 16th century. Anja Voeste has been Professor of Historical Linguistics and the History of German Language at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen since May 2008 .

Voeste is married to the historian Christoph Boyer .

Works (selection)

  • Orthography and innovation. The segmentation of the word in the 16th century. Olms Verlag, Hildesheim u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13604-2
  • Variance and verticalization. To standardize the adjective declination in the first half of the 18th century. Rodopi Verlag, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1999 ISBN 90-420-0659-5
  • To write recognition. Five historical attempts to put yourself in the right light with right words, in Gabriele Leupold , Eveline Passet Ed .:  Im Bergwerk der Sprache. A history of German in episodes. Wallstein , Göttingen 2012, pp. 185–202

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personal data
SURNAME Voeste, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Pyrmont