Georg Schuppener

Georg Schuppener (* 1968 in Aachen ) is a German linguist , natural science historian and a PhD mathematician. In the course of his career he has held various teaching positions at universities in Germany, the Czech Republic , Russia and Slovakia . Since 2011 he has been a professor in Ústí nad Labem .

Schuppener is considered an extremely interdisciplinary scientist who forges connections between linguistics, the history of natural sciences, politics and sociology, which is not least due to his own varied university education. His research focuses on the history of language ( language change and language variation), sociolinguistics, mythological literature, and the history of mathematics and folklore.

Life

education

Between 1988 and 1996 he studied German language and literature , history , mathematics , philosophy of science and Arabic language at the RWTH Aachen , the University of Leipzig , the University of Jena , the University of Hamburg as well as in Tunis . In 1993, he put in Aachen his diploma in mathematics, and in 1995 he was in Leipzig with the dissertation Germanic numerals - Language and cultural-historical studies in particular with number 12 for Dr. phil. PhD . 1999 followed in Hamburg with Jesuit mathematics in Prague in the 16th and 17th centuries (1556-1654) the doctorate to Dr. rer. nat.

Schuppener completed his habilitation in 2001 with the book Making things tangible. Language and cultural history of the German Maßbegriffe and received in 2002 the instructor as a lecturer for German Linguistics .

Research and teaching activities

Following his first doctorate, Schuppener became a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Leipzig in 1996 and remained so until 2003. During this time, he worked as a lecturer at the Charles University in Prague in 1997 and 1998 and held the same function at the Friedrich in 1999 and 2000 -Schiller University Jena. After completing his academic work in Leipzig, he was a lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg between 2003 and 2008 , but was also appointed adjunct professor for language development at the University of Leipzig in 2006. Between 2007 and 2010 he was also teaching at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen .

In 2010 Schuppener moved to the University of Erfurt as an academic senior counselor and adjunct professor for German linguistics , where he stayed until 2014. He also held a visiting professorship in Kaliningrad and is a professor of German studies at the St. Kyrill and St. Method University in Trnava . Since 2011 he has held the chair for German studies at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem as a professor .

Memberships

Georg Schuppener is a member of the Gotha Research Center of the University of Erfurt and of the Research Center for German in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (DiMOS) of the University of Regensburg , a founding member and former chairman of the Friends of the Gotha Research Library and former deputy chairman of the Working Group for Comparative Mythology in Leipzig. In addition, he is represented on the editorial boards of various East-Central European journals and series : Aussiger Posts ( Ústí nad Labem ), Orbis Linquarum ( Breslau ), Slovak Journal for German Studies ( Trnava ), Germanica Wratislaviensia (Breslau), Linguistic Meeting in Wrocław (Breslau), Breslau studies in media linguistics (Breslau) and online linguistics (Breslau).

Between 1994 and 2001 he was also part of the editorial team of hochschule ost - Leipzig contributions to university and science (until 1998: hochschule ost - political-academic journal from East Germany ) ( Leipzig ), before the journal was transferred to the Martin Luther University in Halle- Wittenberg was relocated.

In October 2012 the Executive Agency for Research appointed Schuppener as an expert and reviewer within the framework of the 7th Framework Program for Research of the European Union . His tasks included the appraisal and evaluation of applications from a wide range of subjects in English, French and German.

Awards

• 2002: Theodor Frings Prize of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
• 2005: Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship at the Gotha Research Library with financial support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Publications

Only Schuppener's monographs and works published under his editorship are listed here . Articles in compilations , articles in specialist journals, reviews and reports are not listed.

Monographs

• History of the zeta function from Oresme to Poisson . (= German university publications. Volume 533). Publishing house Dr. Hänsel-Hohenhausen , Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Germanic numerals - linguistic and cultural-historical studies, especially on the number 12 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag , Leipzig 1996.
• Jesuit mathematics in Prague in the 16th and 17th centuries (1556–1654) . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 1999.
• with K. Mačák: Matematika v jezuitském Klementinu v letech 1600–1740 . (= Dějiny matematiky. Volume 18). Prometheus, Prague 2001.

• German edition: Prague Jesuit Mathematics from 1600 to 1740 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2002.

• Make things tangible. Language and cultural history of the measure terms in German . (= Language - Literature and History. Studies in Linguistics / German Studies. Volume 22). University Press Winter , Heidelberg 2002.
• Bibliography for special language research . (= Special Language Research. Volume 6). Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 2002.
• with K. Mačák: Stanislav Vydra (1741–1804). Between elementary mathematics and national rebirth . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004.
• Traces of Germanic mythology in the German language. Names, phraseologisms and current right-wing extremism . Edition Hamouda , Leipzig 2007.
• Basic knowledge of language history . Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2014.
• Why 21 is twenty-one. The higher singles in German - history of their education and reform ideas . (= Studia Interdisciplinaria Ænipontana. Number 21). Praesens Verlag , Vienna 2014.
• Language and Germanic Myth in Right-Wing Extremism . Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2017.

Editing

• with Reiner Tetzner : Culture and Myth. Contributions to the project “Poetry and Experience - Myths as Means of Understanding” . (= Series of publications of the Working Group for Comparative Mythology eV Volume 1). Self-published , Leipzig 1997.
• with R. Tetzner: Faith and Myth . (= Series of publications of the Working Group for Comparative Mythology eV Volume 2). Edition Vulcanus, Leipzig 1998.
• Jewish intellectuals in the GDR. Political structures and biographies . Special issue of the magazine hochschule ost - Leipzig contributions to universities and science. 8th year, Leipzig 1999.
• with R. Tetzner (Ed.): Women in Myth . (= Series of publications of the Working Group for Comparative Mythology eV Volume 3). Edition Vulcanus, Leipzig 1999.
• with I. Barz, Ulla Fix and M. Schröder: History of language as history of text types . Festschrift for Gotthard Lerchner's 65th birthday. Peter Lang Publishing Group , Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• Language of right-wing extremism. Specifics of the language of right-wing extremist publications and right-wing music . Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2008.
• Germanistic forays through Leipzig. On the trail of writers and linguists . Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2009.
• with H. Bergerová and M. Schmidt: language, linguistics and language didactics in motion. Current issues in German linguistics and DaF didactics . (= Aussiger contributions - Germanistic series of publications from research and teaching. Volume 3). Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2009.
• Walter Baetke and the Germanic reception today . (= Series of publications of the Working Group for Comparative Mythology eV Volume 6). Edition Vulcanus, Leipzig 2011.
• with C. Roch and Elmar Schenkel : Wunders vil. On the topicality of the myth . Festschrift for Reiner Tetzner's 75th birthday . Edition Vulcanus, Leipzig 2011.
• with H. Bergerová and M. Schmidt: Lexicology and Lexicography - Current Developments and Challenges . (= Aussiger contributions - Germanistic series of publications from research and teaching. Volume 7). Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2013.
• with H. Bergerová and P. Szatmári: Text and Style in Transition - New Perspectives in Text Linguistics and Stylistics . (= Aussiger contributions - Germanistic series of publications from research and teaching. Volume 9). Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Schuppener in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile of Georg Schuppener on the homepage of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
• Profile of Georg Schuppener on the homepage of the St. Cyrill and St. Method University in Trnava