Heinz Schuster-Šewc

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Heinz Schuster-Šewc ( Upper Sorbian Hinc Šewc ; born February 8, 1927 in Purschwitz , Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen , Saxony ; † February 10, 2021 in Leipzig ) was a Sorbian Slavist , Sorabist and university professor.

Career

After studying Slavic Studies, he did his doctorate and then his habilitation . Schuster-Šewc was from 1964 university professor for Sorabic and Slavic linguistics and director of the Institute for Sorabic at the University of Leipzig . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow . From 1988 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . He was a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Scholarship in Cracow .

In 1980 Schuster-Šewc was awarded the State Ćišinski Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • The oldest prints in Upper Sorbian , Domowina-Verlag , 2001.
  • Sorbian in a Slavic context , Domowina-Verlag, 2000.
  • The Sorbian and the state of its research , Berlin, Akademie-Verlag , 1991.
  • Historical-etymological dictionary of the Upper and Lower Sorbian language , Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 1978–1996.
  • Bibliography of Sorbian Linguistics , Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 1966.
  • Comparative historical phonology of the language of Albin Moller , Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1958.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Obituary notice in Serbske Nowiny , February 12, 2021, p. 4 ( e-paper )
  2. ↑ On the history of Sorabistics. Institute for Sorabistics, University of Leipzig, accessed on November 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schuster-Šewc, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šewc, Hinc (Sorbian)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Sorbian Slavist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Purschwitz , Bautzen Authority , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2021
Place of death Leipzig