Georg Holzer

Georg Holzer (born March 9, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Slavist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

Holzer works as an associate professor for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna . He is the author of four monographs and over 50 scientific articles. In 1995 Holzer came up with a new theory about the level of development of the Prot-Slavic language around AD 600. The far-reaching statements on a comparatively narrow empirical basis have found wide acceptance within Slavic studies after initial skepticism. Holzer is the author of the 2002 article, Urslavisch, in the Lexicon of Eastern European Languages . This is part of the on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Science since 2000 in Klagenfurt published Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe (EEO) .

Holzer publishes the book series Writings on Languages ​​and Texts , in which eight volumes have appeared so far (as of 2007). He is also the author of the first volume in this series ( The opening up of unbelievable languages , Vienna 1996).

In addition, Holzer heads the research project The Language of Medieval Slavery in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which has been running since January 1, 2001 ( research assistant : Angela Bergermayer). In the course of this project, a glossary of medieval Slavic words will be created, which can be found in Austrian naming material . After each entry the documentary mentions of the (Germanized) Slavic word, the current place name and its location are given.

Publications (monographs)

• Borrowings from a previously unknown Indo-European language in Ur- Slavic and Ur- Baltic . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7001-1552-0 (habilitation thesis)
• Opening up blank languages. On the theoretical foundations of genetic linguistics . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49372-X
• The slaves in the Erlaftal . A landscape of names in Lower Austria . Editors Anton Eggendorfer and Willibald Rosner, Lower Austria Inst. Für Landeskunde, Sankt Pölten 2001, ISBN 3-85006-135-3
• Reconstruction języków niepoświadczonych. Pod redakcją Wacława Waleckiego. Przekład Jolanta Krzysztoforska-Doschek . Collegium Columbinum, Kraków 2001, ISBN 83-87553-37-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Holzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Holzer at the University of Vienna
• ORF report on the research project: The language of medieval Slavery in Austria
• Ur-Slavic . (PDF; 242 kB) Lexicon article by Georg Holzer in the Encyclopedia of the European East (EEO), Klagenfurt 2002