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

1. ↑ see http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb10/slawistik