Helmut Jachnow

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Helmut Jachnow (born February 6, 1939 in Kienitz ) is a German Slavist .

After studying Slavic and English studies at the Free University of Berlin , Helmut Jachnow received his doctorate in 1968 and then took up a position as an assistant at the University of Konstanz . After his habilitation , he was appointed professor for Slavic linguistics at the University of Bochum in 1976 , where he stayed until his retirement in 2004. He was a founding member of the Slavic Konstanzer Kreis .

Jachnow published works on Soviet sociolinguistics together with Wolfgang Girke in the 1970s, and later he mainly worked on functional language description. Jachnow and Girke contributed significantly to the linguisticization of Slavic philology in the Federal Republic of the then Reform University of Konstanz. The handbooks on linguistic Russian studies published by Jachnow (1984/1999) were of overarching importance for Slavic teaching. Since 1985 he has been the editor of the series “Slavic Study Books” (New Series).

Fonts

  • Helmut Jachnow, Boris Norman, Adam E. Suprun, Tina Idrizovic, Zilka (eds.): "Quantity and grading as cognitive-semantic categories" Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04408-X

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Individual evidence

  1. Slavic Philology, Master's 1 subject - Courses offered - Studies - Ruhr University Bochum. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .