Ekkehard W. Bornträger

Ekkehard Wolfgang Bornträger (* 1958 in Wuppertal ) is a Swiss historian ( Greece , the Balkans , Eastern Europe , the Baltic States ) and a neo-Greekist .

Bornträger studied Modern History , Neo-Greek Studies , Balto - Slavic Studies and English Philology at the Universities of Friborg , Switzerland , and Bern and received her doctorate in 1991 with a dissertation on Catherine II . As a result, he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation , Bern, and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Rome , combined with study visits to Greece and Italy . In addition to independent research and translation work as well as language training in Albanian and Romanian , Bornträger has held various teaching positions, in particular since 1998 for modern Greek language and culture at the University of Friborg (Switzerland), and since 2007/2008 introductory events on Balkan studies as well as Lithuanian language and regional studies . From 2005 to 2007 he represented the chair for Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Mainz (FASK Germersheim ), which had become vacant after Hans Ruge's retirement , where he also conducted a pilot course in Albanian; in addition, he had a lectureship in Eastern European history at the University of Mannheim . He is currently a professor at the Institute for Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Universities of Friborg (Switzerland) and Bern, and holds the chair in Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Geneva.

Research focuses on the history of Greece and the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe as a whole, with particular attention to the Baltic region , nationality and language policy and cultural and language contact in these areas, as well as translation studies (translation geography ), lexicostatistics and neo-Greek lexicography in the form of phraseology .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Katharina II. The autocrat of all Reussians - The image of the Tsarina and her foreign policy in Western historiography. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg-Friborg, Switzerland 1991. Review by Roderick E. McGrew, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 40, 1992, 553-55.
• Borders, Ethnicity and National Self-determination. Braumüller University Press, Vienna 1999.

Phraseological dictionary

• in collaborazione con Anastasia Danae Lazaridou , Federica Marcucci: Φρασεολογικό λεξικό της νέας Ελληνικής - Dizionario fraseologico del greco moderno. Espressioni idiomatiche, modi di dire, collocazioni . Phoibos, Vienna, 1995, ISBN 3-901232-06-0 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Ekkehard W. Bornträger in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Personal page, Slavic Studies Universities of Bern-Friborg
• Lecture announcement Vienna 2006: From Threat Scenario to Challenge and Opportunity: Labor Emigration to Greece (PDF; 11 kB)
• Literature review. Greek identity and the Greek identity discourse through the ages: two recent cultural-historical studies (excerpt) (PDF; 99 kB)