Heinz Ensign

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Heinz Fähnrich (born January 10, 1941 in Hammer , Sudetengau ) is a German Kaukasiologist .

Life

Ensign was born on January 10, 1941 in Hammer near Brüx in what was then the Sudetengau. In 1959 he completed school with the Abitur.

Already in his youth he was interested in classical studies and wished to travel to Egypt one day. After he began studying archeology in Jena in 1960, the lectures given by Gertrud Pätsch aroused his interest. Inspired by her, he first studied Indonesian and then the Georgian language . In 1965 he finished his studies.

From 1965 ensign was a research assistant at the University of Jena and received his doctorate there in 1969 . A partnership contract between the Jena University and the State University of Tbilisi enabled him to travel to Georgia . He defended his 1970 habilitation dissertation on Georgian and was in 1971 Tbilisi habilitation . From 1986 he held the only professorship for Kaukasiology in Germany at the University of Jena . His areas of research are historical-comparative linguistics and Kaukasiology.

His work has been recognized with the Akaki Shanidze Prize (1992), the Ivan Jawachishvili Medal, the Marie Brosset Prize of the Center for Cartelological Studies and the Georgian Order of Honor (2002). Ensign has been a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences since 1996 .

In 2006 he retired .

Publications

Ensign has published numerous books on the history, language and literature of Georgia, including "Brief Grammar of the Georgian Language" (1986, 1987, 1993), "Georgian Literature" (1993), "History of Georgia from the Beginnings to Mongol Rule" (1993) , "Grammar of the Old Georgian Language" (1994) and together with Zurab Sardzhweladze "Old Georgian-German Dictionary" (1999).

He has also distinguished himself as a translator of Georgian literature, including a. from "The Moon of Mtatsminda" ( Galaktion Tabidse ), "The Wisdom of Lies" ( Sulchan-Saba Orbeliani ) "Lascharela" and "The Long Night" ( Grigol Abaschidze ), fairy tales, sagas and poetry.

The scientific journal "Georgica: Journal for Culture, Language and History of Georgia and the Caucasus", of which he is editor-in-chief, has been published annually since 1978 , first in Jena, then in Konstanz and currently in Aachen .

Articles in the scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (WZ-FSU-GSR) 1965–1990
  • The functions of the character vowel i in the Georgian verb; 14 (1965) 1: 153-157.
  • For the 800th birthday of the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli; 16, 1, 29-33 (1967).
  • The treatment of the Georgian lexicon in preparation for automatic processing of information; 1967, 16, 5: 631-635.
  • 50 years of Caucasus Studies at the State University in Tbilisi; 1968, 17, 4: 503-506.
  • On the polysemy of the Georgian “tu”; 18, 6, 7-9 (1969).
  • Criticism of the German version of Nodar Dumbadse's novel “Ich sehe die Sonne”; 1970, 19, 5: 747-756.
  • Parallels in the pronominal structure of the Kartwels and Daghestan languages; 19 (1970) 5: 757-761.
  • Criteria for proof of genetic language affinity; 20 (1971) 5, 99-136.
  • From the Lexic of the Kartwelsprachen; (1971) 20, 5: 137-139.
  • Regular phonetic correspondences in the Abkhaz-Adygic languages ​​and some remarks on the Kartwelic vocabulary; 21 (1972) 5/6, 651-661.
  • Lenin's language and nationality policy in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia; 21 (1972) 5/6, 663-668.
  • Linguistic changes and their recognition; 21 (1972) 5/6, 669-673.
  • Historical-Comparative Linguistics and the Iberocaucasian Hypothesis; 1973, 22, 3: 401-407.
  • Fähnrich, Heinz / Meinhold, Gottfried : Phonematic comparison between Georgian, Avar and Tabasaran; 1973, 22, 3: 409-417.
  • Characteristics of the Georgian language structure; 24 (1975) 5/6, 617-626.
  • Fähnrich, Heinz / Meinhold, Gottfried: phoneme-statistical comparison between Achwachisch and Andisch; 24 (1975) 5/6, 663-669.
  • Georgian literature and us; 1977, 26, 1, 17-20.
  • Thoughts on Micheil Dshawachishwili's artistic language; 1977, 26, 1, 105-108.
  • Borrowing of morphological means in Mingrelian; (1985) 34, 1: 121-124.
  • To the Post-Daghestan loanwords in Swan; 37 (1988) 2: 117-121.
  • Kartwelian root morphemes of the CVC type with a liquid initial sound; 1990, 39, 6: 545-546.

literature

  • Michael Eckardt: Caucusiological articles in the "Scientific Journal" of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena 1965-1990 . In: Amirani 7, 2006, 14/15, 141-146.
  • Michael Eckardt: Complete bibliography of the "Scientific Journal" of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GS series) 1951–1990 . RLS-Thuringia, Jena 2006, ISBN 3-935850-39-5 , p.?.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Fähnrich: Die Kartwelier: Basic language culture living space . Reichert, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-95490-192-0 ( amazon.de [accessed on January 26, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Ensign, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Kaukasiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammer, Sudetengau