Christian Sappok

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Christian Sappok (born August 27, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German Slavist .

Sappok studied Slavic Studies, Eastern European History and Political Science at the University of Munich from 1960 and received his doctorate there in 1968. From 1971 he was an assistant at the Slavic Seminar at the University of Tübingen , from where he was appointed professor for Slavic Linguistics at the University of Bochum in 1978 . He held this position until his retirement in 2006. He is a founding member of the Slavic Konstanzer Kreis .

Sappok initially published on Polish literature, from the 1980s he turned more and more to phonetics and dialectology . Together with Russian colleagues, he undertook a large number of dialectological expeditions in Russia. Since 2007 he has also been teaching at Kirov University .

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