Hans-Jürgen Sasse
Hans-Jürgen Sasse also Jürgen Saße (born April 30, 1943 in Berlin ; † January 14, 2015 ) was a German linguist .
Life
Sasse studied general linguistics , Indo-European , Semitic and Balkan studies in Berlin , Thessaloniki and Munich . In 1970 he received his doctorate in Munich in the Semitic Studies department with his dissertation Linguistic Analysis of the Arabic Dialect of the Mhallamiye in the Province of Mardin (Southeast Turkey) . From 1972 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the Institute for General and Indo-European Linguistics in Munich. In 1975 he was habilitated for the subject of general linguistics with the work Die Morphophonologie des Galab-Verbs and in 1977 he was promoted to full professor. In 1987 he followed a call to the University of Cologne as Hansjakob Seiler's successor at the chair for general and comparative linguistics. Michael Job was his successor in Munich . After 21 years as a professor in Cologne, Sasse retired in the 2008/2009 winter semester. His successor was Nikolaus P. Himmelmann .
Sasse was a co-founder of the Volkswagen Foundation's Documentation of Threatened Languages initiative , and founding president of the Society for Threatened Languages. V. and since 2001 a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .
In the field of general linguistics, Sasse dealt with grammatical relations and lexical categories (parts of speech), with universals research , with discourse and grammar, with morphosyntax , with historical linguistics and reconstruction, with language contact and language death as well as with lexicon research. From the languages and language families he researched the Balkan languages (especially Modern Greek and Albanian ), Afro-Asian languages (especially Semitic and Cushitic ) and North American languages, especially the Cayuga Iroquois . Numerous field research stays around the world underpinned his work.
Honor
- The Society for Canada Studies annually awards a Jürgen Saße sponsorship award to young academics in all disciplines whose university thesis or doctoral thesis is about the Aboriginal people of Canada.
literature
- Bernd Heine : Obituary for Hans-Jürgen Sasse at the meeting of the class for humanities on April 15, 2015. Yearbook of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2016, p. 102f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Sasse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans-Jürgen Sasse at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts
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Hans-Jürgen Sasse at the University of Cologne
- Obituary , ibid
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Linguistics ( Memento from November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of the University of Cologne, accessed on November 14, 2016.
- ^ Society for Canada Studies - Announcements 2018
Chair for Historical and Indo-European Linguistics: Wilhelm Streitberg (1909–1920) | Gustav Herbig (1922–1925) | Ferdinand Sommer (1926–1951) | Wilhelm Wissmann (1953–1966) | Meinrad Scheller (1968–1975) | Klaus Strunk (1977–1999) | Peter Schrijver (1999-2005) | Olav Hackstein (since 2005)
General and typological linguistics: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1977–1987) | Michael Job (1988–1991) | Wolfgang Schulze (1992-2020)
Professorship for Albanology: Martin Camaj (1971–1990) | Wilfried Fiedler (1991–1999) | Bardhyl Demiraj (since 2001)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sasse, Hans-Jürgen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sat, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2015 |