Ekkehard King
Ekkehard König (born January 15, 1941 in Jäschkittel , Strehlen district , Lower Silesia province ) is a German philologist and professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin .
Live and act
König studied English at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , at Newcastle University and at the University of Edinburgh .
He worked at the universities in Stuttgart , Reading , Kiel, Hanover , Berlin , Stanford and Los Angeles . From 1973 until his retirement in 2009 he was a professor at the Free University of Berlin .
His main research areas include language typology, semantics, contrastive linguistics and the analysis of Germanic languages. König gained importance for his research into reflexive pronouns and intensifiers .
He is a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . In 2002 he received the Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation. In the 2010/11 winter semester, König is at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at Freiburg University and is working with Manfred Pfister on a new introduction to the linguistic analysis of literary texts based on a wide range of English texts from the Renaissance to the present based.
In 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/fellows/koenig_lili#FRIAS-Projekt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ekkehard König in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage with picture - The e-mail specified there no longer exists.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Ekkehard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jäschkittel , District of Strehlen , Province of Lower Silesia |