Eduard Werner (Slavist)

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Eduard Werner (Sorbian Edward Wornar , born April 21, 1966 in Bendorf ) is a German Slavic scholar and executive director of the Institute for Sorabic Studies at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Eduard Werner grew up in Rhineland-Palatinate . He first studied palaeontology in Bonn , then switched to Slavic and Indo-European Studies , learned Russian and Polish , Lithuanian , Latvian and Esperanto , and finally specialized in Sorabic Studies .

Since 1993 he has been a research assistant in the Linguistics department of the Sorbian Institute in Bautzen . Since 2003 he has been teaching as professor for Sorabistics at the University of Leipzig and as such is also director of the Institute for Sorabistics.

Werner lives in Leipzig and describes himself as "Sorbs with a migration background". He is married to a Lithuanian and has several children.

Publications (selection)

  • Jana Šołćina, Edward Wornar: Upper Sorbian in self-study. Hornjoserbšćina za samostudij . Bautzen 2000, ISBN 3-7420-1779-9 .
  • Eduard Werner: The verbal arrangement in Upper Sorbian. (= Writings of the Sorbian Institute. Volume 34). Domowina-Verlag Bautzen, 2003. ISBN 978-3-7420-1940-0 .
  • Edward Wornar: English-Upper Sorbian Learner's Dictionary. Jendelsko-hornjoserbski šulski slownik . Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina Budyšin, 2007. ISBN 978-3-742011-86-2 .
  • Eduard Werner: Traugott Xaverius Unruh, From the Sorberiegen essence and origin . Reinecke & Voß , 2015. ISBN 978-3-942901-12-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unique, these professors - university professors whose chairs are unique in Germany, by Jörg Walser, June 3, 2004, in Die Zeit
  2. ↑ Teachers for Sorbian . Tagesspiegel from July 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wornar, Edward (Sorbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and head of the Institute for Sorabic Studies at the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendorf