Matthias Andreas Fritz

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Matthias Andreas Fritz (born December 8, 1968 ) is a German Indo-Europeanist .

Life

After graduating from the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Bamberg , he studied comparative linguistics in Erlangen and Würzburg from 1989 to 1994 , where he obtained his master's degree in 1994 . The Free State of Bavaria sponsored him from 1994 to 1996 with a doctoral scholarship. From 1996 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in comparative linguistics in 1998 . From 2001 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his habilitation in comparative linguistics in 2003 . From 1993 to 1997 he was a lecturer in Sanskrit at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From 1997 to 2005 he was lecturer in Greek and Latin linguistics at the University of Potsdam . In 1999 he taught Armenian as a lecturer at the TU Dresden . In 2007 he conducted research at the CNRS and EPHE in Paris with a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2007 he taught German linguistics at the State University of Yerevan . From 2007 to 2011 he was Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Yerevan State University for Languages ​​and Social Sciences, and from 2008 to 2010 he also held the Chair of German. As a Humboldt Fellow, he conducted research at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences in 2012 . From 2013 to 2014 he was lecturer for German linguistics at the University of Erfurt . As a Humboldt Fellow, he carried out research in 2015 at the Faculty of Greek Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . Since 2016 he has been Professor of German Studies at the University of Nizwa .

His work focuses on general and comparative linguistics, armenology, German studies and German as a foreign language , Greek studies , Indo-European studies and contrastive linguistics.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor with Susanne Zeilfelder : Novalis indogermanica. Festschrift for Günter Neumann on his 80th birthday (= comparative works from Graz. Volume 17). Leykam, Graz 2002, ISBN 3-7011-0032-2 .
  • The tricasual local particles in Homer. Syntax and semantics (= historical linguistic research. Supplement 44). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-26234-5 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 1997).
  • as editor with Ilse Wischer : Historical-comparative linguistics and Germanic languages. Files of the 4th Neulandtagung der Historo-Comparative Linguistics in Potsdam 2001 (= Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics. Volume 113). Inst. Für Sprachwiss., Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-85124-695-0 .
  • as translator: Jeghische Tscharenz . The travelers on the Milky Way (= read more beautifully. Volume 82). SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937737-97-3 .
  • The dual in Indo-European. Genealogical and typological comparison of a changing grammatical category (= Indo-European library, series 3, investigations ). Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 3-8253-5111-4 (also habilitation thesis, FU Berlin 2003).

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personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Matthias Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritz, Matthias A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indo-Europeanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1968