Helmut W. Schaller
Helmut Wilhelm Schaller (born April 16, 1940 in Bayreuth ) is a German Slavist and university professor . He is the author of numerous publications on the philology of the Balkans and, among other things, was the founding president of the German-Bulgarian Society .
Life
Schaller studied Slavic Philology , Philosophy , Eastern European History and Balkan Philology at the University of Munich. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Munich. phil., in 1972 he completed his habilitation. Then he was initially a private lecturer at the University of Munich, from 1983 until his retirement in 2005 he was a professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .
From 1984 to 2005 he was also head of the branch of the Southeast Europe Society in Marburg . From 1999 to 2005 he headed the DFG project on a “Small Balkan Language Atlas”.
Schaller has written more than 400 essays, reviews and reports in specialist journals and edited volumes. He is also the co-editor of the Symbolae Slavicae series of the Bulgarian Library. New series , the Bulgaria Yearbook and the Bulgarian journals Linguistique Balkanique and Bâlgarski Ezik .
In the 2006/2007 winter semester, the Slavonic Philologist department was relocated from the University of Marburg to the University of Gießen as part of the establishment of a center.
Visiting professorships and academic positions
Visiting professorships took him to the universities of Saarland, Regensburg, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg.
- Member of the Commissions for the Grammatical Structure of Slavic Languages and the History of Slavonic Studies at the International Slavic Committee,
- since 1993 chairman of the International Commission for Balkan Linguistics
- 1996–2017 President of the German-Bulgarian Society for the Promotion of Relations between Germany and Bulgaria e. V., since then age and honorary president
- since 2015 full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts / Munich
Orders and awards
- 1990 "Cyril and Method Order I Class"
- 2006 Honorary Award of the University of Sofia on the blue ribbon
- 2006 honorary doctorate from the “Kliment Ochridski University” Sofia.
Published books (selection)
- The word order in Russian , Munich 1966.
- The predicate noun in Russian , Cologne-Vienna 1975.
- The Balkan languages. An Introduction to Balkan Philology , Heidelberg 1975.
- Bibliography on Balkan Philology , Heidelberg 1977.
- Bibliography of the Russian Language , Frankfurt a. M. u. a. O. 1980.
- Bibliography of the Bibliographies on Slavic Linguistics , Frankfurt a. M. u. a. O. 1982.
- Real and non-fiction dictionary on Old Russian , together with K. Günther-Hielscher and V. Glötzner, Neuried 1985. Second edition revised by E. Kraft Wiesbaden 1995.
- Bulgarian Studies in Germany. Historical outline with bibliographies , Neuried 1988.
- Bibliography on the Bulgarian language , Munich 1990.
- Gustav Weigand (1860-1930). His contribution to Balkan Philology and Bulgarian Studies , Munich 1992.
- Erich Berneker. Life and Work , Frankfurt a. M. u. a. O. 1999.
- National Socialism and the Slavic World , Regensburg, 2002.
- History of Slavic and Baltic Philology at the University of Königsberg , Frankfurt a. M. 2009.
- Catalogs for book exhibitions of the “German-Bulgarian Society e. V. "in the" Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin / Prussischer Kulturbesitz ":
- Bulgaria in Germany. Marburg 1996.
- Bulgaria in Europe. Marburg 1998.
- Bulgaria in America. Munich 2002.
Festschrift for Schaller
- Non solum philologus: Lectures from November 5, 2010 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Helmut Wilhelm Schaller , edited by Jürgen Kristophson and Rumjana Zlatanova. Sagner, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86688-373-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut W. Schaller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Schaller's curriculum vitae and publications, document from the University of Marburg ( Memento from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schaller, Helmut W. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaller, Helmut Wilhelm (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Slavist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |