Franz Rottland

Franz Rottland (born December 4, 1934 in Gelsenkirchen ; † August 4, 2014 ) was a German Africanist .

Life

After receiving his doctorate on September 8, 1970 at the University of Leiden and his habilitation in 1979 in Cologne , he held the Chair of African Studies II at the University of Bayreuth until 1998 .

Rottland died in 2014 at the age of 79 and was buried in the old Ehrenfeld part of Cologne's Melaten cemetery .

The South Nilotic languages. Description, comparison and reconstruction . Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-00161-5 .
as editor with Rainer Voßen: African hunters. International Symposium, Sankt Augustin, January 3–5, 1985 Conference Reports. African hunter gatherers . Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87118-761-5 .
as editor: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Carl F. Hoffmann . Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87118-822-0 .
as editor with Lucia N. Omondi: Proceedings of the 3rd Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Kisumu, Kenya, Aug 4-9, 1986 . Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87548-001-5 .

as editors Rainer Voßen , Angelika Mietzner and Antje Meißner: "More than just words ...". Africanist contributions to the 65th birthday of Franz Rottland . Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89645-125-1 .