Maria Blessed

Maria Selig (born April 2, 1959 in Germersheim ) is a German Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Maria Selig studied Romance studies and classical philology at the Universities of Würzburg , Rennes , Munich and Freiburg from 1977 to 1984 . There she received her doctorate in 1987 with the dissertation The Development of Nominal Determinants in Late Latin. Romance language change and Latin writing (Tübingen 1992) and was assistant at the chair of Wolfgang Raible from 1988 to 1994 . She completed her habilitation in 1995 in Freiburg with the script Volkssprachliche Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter - The Genesis of the Old Occitan Writing Culture and was (after a Heisenberg scholarship ) a deputy chair from 1996 to 1998, then until 2003 professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since then she has held the chair for French and Italian linguistics at the University of Regensburg . From 2008 to 2012 she was chairwoman of the German Association of Italianists and has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2009 .

Works (selection)

• “Appropriations of Scripture. Media-historical aspects of the Romanesque Middle Ages ”. In: Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics 26, 103, 1996, pp. 6-19.
• "To the beginnings of the ancient Occitan document writing". In: Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics 27, 108, 1997, pp. 24–44.
• (with Trudel Meisenburg): Phonetics and Phonology of French . Stuttgart / Düsseldorf / Leipzig 1998.
• La naissance des langues romanes . Editions universitaires d'Avignon, Avignon 2008.
• (with Christoph Gabriel and Trudel Meisenburg) Spanish. Phonetics and Phonology. An introduction . Narr, Tübingen 2013.

Web links

• Personnel page of the University of Regensburg, with picture
• Personnel page of the Bavarian Academy, with picture