Johan Corthals

Johan Corthals (born August 6, 1948 in Brussels ) is a Belgian Celtologist and Indo-Europeanist .

Life

From 1967 to 1972 he first studied Classical Philology and then Oriental Studies in Leuven and obtained the degree of a Licentiate in Classical Philology and Oriental Studies. After a brief teaching position in Brussels , he went to the University of Vienna and began studying Indo-European Studies. After a brief period as a teacher, he continued studying Indo-European studies in Freiburg im Breisgau with Oswald Szemerényi , where he also got to know Celtology. From 1976 he worked at the Institute for Comparative Linguistics at the University of Hamburg as a research assistant. He received his doctorate in 1979 under Professor Hans Hartmann with a critical edition of two old Irish stories. Then did research at the School of Celtic Studies of the Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath . From 1981 to 2014 he taught as a professor in Hamburg .

Fonts (selection)

• Táin bó Regamna. A prelude to the Táin bó Cúailnge (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 478) (= Publications of the Celtic Commission. Volume 5). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0657-2 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1979).
• Old Irish storytelling (= Forum Celticum. Volume 1). Lit, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2454-3 .
• Indo-European Studies. Small companion for basic studies . CreateSpace, North Charleston 2014, ISBN 1-5029-8504-7 .
  • 2nd revised edition, ibid 2015, ISBN 1-5147-1107-9 .
• Old Irish storytelling . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston 2016, ISBN 1-5304-5156-6 .
• MsOMIT 2017. Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Texts . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston 2017, ISBN 1-5426-3002-9 .

Web links

• Johan Corthals in the Hamburg professors catalog