Manfred Markus

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Manfred Markus (born February 15, 1941 in Hagen ) is an Anglist with German and Austrian citizenship.

Life

Markus studied from 1960 to 1967 at the University of Heidelberg (English, German, Philosophy and Pedagogy), the University of Reading and the University of Göttingen , where he passed the state exams in philosophy, education, German and English from 1964 to 1967. From 1967 to 1974 he was a student assistant or assistant at the Institute for English Studies at the University of Regensburg , where he received his doctorate in 1970 (English and German studies). From 1974 to 1975 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . In 1981 he completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg (English philology).

From 1981 to 2009 Markus was a full professor for the English language and older English literature at the University of Innsbruck (formerly the chair of Karl Brunner ), where he was also the head of the Institute for English Studies (1985 to 1995 and 2006 to 2008). In addition, he has taught at numerous guest professorships and guest lectures in the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Japan, Denmark, Finland and the Czech Republic. He organized conferences in Innsbruck and took an active part in numerous external conferences.

Markus retired in 2009 . 2005–2018 he was director of the third-party funded project EDD Online .

Markus is (co-) author of around twenty scientific books and over 100 essays. He is a contributor to Harenberg's Lexikon der Weltliteratur (1989; 19 articles), the Lexikons des Mittelalter (JB Metzler, 1999; 8 articles) and the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES) online (66 reviews of publications on Middle English dialectology). He was also the author of over 60 academic reviews and short articles and from 1994 to 2010 he was co-editor of the publication series Austrian Studies in English (formerly Viennese Contributions to Philology ).

Research priorities

Markus dealt with Middle English literature, narrative technique and stylistics, historical linguistics , phonology, contrastive and corpus linguistics , English varieties , dialectology , computer philology.

He became known as the head of ICAMET ( Innsbruck Computer Archive of Machine-Readable English Texts ), especially as a compiler of the two historical text corpora: Innsbruck English Letters 1386–1698 and Innsbruck Middle English Prose (both only available on CD-ROM for copyright reasons ). His main merit is the creation of an online version of the English Dialect Dictionary by Joseph Wright (1898–1905): EDD Online 3.0.

Private

Markus lives in Innsbruck . He and his wife Ingrid have two sons, Dirk Markus and Ronald Markus.

Publications (selection)

  • Modern narrative perspective in the works of the Gawain author . Carl Verlag, Nuremberg / Regensburg 1971 (new edition Lang Verlag, 1987)
  • as Ed .: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . Reclam, Stuttgart 1974 (4th edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2009)
  • Point of view in the narrative text: An applied typology using the example of the early American short story, in particular Poes and Hawthornes . Special issue 60th Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies, Innsbruck 1985
  • Middle English study book . UTB Big series. Francke, Tübingen 1990
  • as ed. with Christian Mair: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics. Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria, 10-12 May 1991 . 2 vols. English series, 5/6. Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies, Innsbruck 1992
  • as ed. with Clive Upton, Reinhard Heuberger: Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond. Studies in Late Modern English Dialectology. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010
  • as ed. with Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger, Emil Chamson: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics. A multi-dimensional approach . Studies in Corpus Linguistics 50. John Benjamin, Amsterdam 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University life . (PDF; 663 KB) Volume 22. Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, 2009, p. 24 , accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ EDD Online
  3. ↑ Reinhard Heuberger: index.html - University of Innsbruck. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae. (PDF; 212 KB) Accessed March 26, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Markus, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian English studies and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen / Westphalia