Michael Janda
Michael Janda (* 1964 in Regensburg ) is a German linguist and Indo-Europeanist .
Life
Michael Janda attended the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Regensburg and studied Indo-European linguistics , classical philology , religious studies , history and philosophy in Regensburg, Würzburg and Vienna . His academic teachers included Jochem Schindler and Heiner Eichner , with whom he received his doctorate in 1996 . From 1995 to 2002 Janda initially worked as an assistant ( habilitation 1999), then as an assistant professor at the University of Zurich . In 2002 he accepted a professorship for Indo-European Linguistics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.
At the center of Janda's scientific activity are the reconstruction of the vocabulary, culture and religion of the Indo-Europeans , early Greek culture , etymology and phraseology .
Publications (selection)
- About "stick and stone". The Indo-European Variations of a Universal Phraseologism , Dettelbach 1997 (Dissertation)
- Eleusis. The Indo-European Heritage of the Mysteries, Innsbruck 2000 (Habilitation)
- The music after the chaos. The creation myth of European prehistoric times, Innsbruck 2010.
- Purple sea. Language and culture of the Homeric world, Innsbruck 2014
- The wrath of Achilles, Münster 2018
- Narkissos and Hyakinthos, Münster 2020
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Janda in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Janda's website (list of publications)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janda, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist, Indo-Europeanist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |