Klaus Zimmermann (Romanist)

Klaus Zimmermann (born September 23, 1947 in Wertheim am Main ) is a German linguist and Ibero-American scholar .

biography

Zimmermann studied from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Mannheim , where he received his doctorate in 1976 . He then taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as Profesor Asociado and the FU Berlin as a university assistant. In 1990 he received his habilitation ( Venia legendi for Romance Philology ) at the Free University of Berlin . He then was a private lecturer and substitute professor in Berlin and Mainz as well as scientific director at the Ibero-American Institute PK Berlin. He has been a professor at the University of Bremen since 1996 and retired in 2012. He was visiting professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico City, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Antwerp , Autonomous University of Madrid , El Colegio de México , University of Brasília and the University of La Laguna .

Zimmermann is the author of research publications on the topics of language and identity, language contacts and intercultural communication in Ibero-America, Spanish in America, history of languages ​​in America, language policy and language planning (intercultural education, linguistic aspects), Mexico, Otomí, Iberoroman-based creole languages, Migration linguistics, colonial linguistics and the history of science in American linguistics (missionary linguistics), youth language , linguistic pragmatics: language and courtesy, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Brazilian Portuguese, discourse analysis, founder and director of the journal Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana from 2003 to 2012 as well as founder and co-editor of the series Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo hispánico , member of advisory boards of several magazines and formerly Vice President of the German Hispanic Association.

Web links

• Klaus Zimmermann on the website of the University of Bremen
• Literature by and about Klaus Zimmermann in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Biographical information: Klaus Zimmermann: "From Frankoromanistik zur Iberoamerikanistik", in: Ertler, Klaus-Dieter (ed.): Romance studies as a passion: great hours of the recent specialist history IV, Vienna: Lit Verlag, pp. 475–508.