Institute for Sorabic Studies

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The Institute for Sorabistics (Sorbian Institut za sorabistiku ) is an institution of the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig . It teaches the Sorbian language , literature and culture and is unique in the world in this form.

The main focus is on research and the training of teachers in Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian . The institute works together with the non-university Sorbian Institute in Bautzen .

history

In the fall of 1951, the Sorbian Institute was founded at the University of Leipzig on the initiative of the writer Michał Nawka . The first director was Pawoł Nedo . First Sorbian history and Sorbian language and literature were taught. In 1964 Heinz Schuster-Šewc took over the management. In 1968 it was renamed the Institute for Sorabic Studies .

After downsizing and restructuring after the political change in 1990, there has been a full professorship for Sorabistics again since 2003. Today the head of the Institute for Sorabistics is Eduard Werner .

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