Norbert Morciniec

Norbert Morciniec (1967)

Norbert Morciniec (born June 4, 1932 in Opole ) is a Polish professor in the field of German and Dutch studies .

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Norbert Morciniec attended the German elementary and high school in Opole (Silesia) until 1945 and then the Polish grammar school in Opole, graduating in 1951 with the secondary school leaving certificate. After graduating from high school, he studied German at the Catholic University in Lublin (1951–53) and at the University of Breslau (1953–55). This was followed by a two-year position as an assistant in the Institute for General Linguistics and then as a senior academic assistant in the German Institute of the University of Wroclaw. In 1961 Morciniec received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of nominal word compositions in the West Germanic languages. In 1966/67 he spent two semesters at the Dutch Institute of the Stedelijke Universiteit in Amsterdam. In 1968 the habilitation took place on the basis of the treatise Distinctive Language Units in Dutch and German . In 1975 he was appointed associate professor and in 1983 full professor. From 1969 until his retirement he headed the chair for German language, which was expanded in 1975 to the chair for German language and Dutch studies. He performed important organizational tasks at the University of Wroclaw. He was u. a. Deputy Director of the German Institute (1969–75), Vice Dean of the Philological Faculty (1969–71), Vice Rector for Research and International Relations (1984–87), Director of the German Institute (1992/93). Norbert Morciniec also carried out important construction work at the universities in Katowice and Opole. In Katowice he was the first director of the newly established German Institute of the Silesian University , and in Opole he held lectures and seminars on German linguistics from the establishment of the German Institute there (1989) until his retirement. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the Philological University in Wroclaw. From 2009 to 2012 dean of the philological faculty, since 2013 rector of the university. Norbert Morciniec taught as a visiting professor at the universities: Leipzig 1977, Leuven 1981, Vienna 1983 and 1992, Marburg 1984, Tampere 1985, Münster 1990, Mainz 1993.

Publications

Numerous publications on German linguistics with a focus on: phonetics and phonology, grammar, language history, contrastive linguistics, Silesian dialect research and German-Dutch lexicography. The most important publications include:

• The nominal word compositions in the West Germanic languages . Prace Wrocławskiego Towaryzstwa Naukowego. Seria A. No. 99. Wrocław 1964. 132 pp.
• Distinctive language units in Dutch and German. On the phonological identification process. Prace Wrocławskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego. Seria A. No. 123. Wrocław 1968. 102 pp.
• Fonetyka kontrastywna języka niemieckiego . (Contrastive Phonetics of the German Language), co-author. S. Prędota, PWN-Verlag, Warszawa 1973. 234 pp., 2nd edition 1984. 248 pp.
• Zarys gramatyki niderlandzkiej . (Outline of the Dutch grammar), Univ.-Verlag, Wrocław 1977. 182 p., 6th edition 1995.
• Zarys niemieckiej intonacji zdaniowej . (Outline of the German sentence intonation). Univ.-Verlag, Wrocław 1979. 76 p., 4th edition 1995.
• Podręcznik wymowy niemieckiej . (Handbook of German Phonetics), co-author. S. Prędota, PWN-Verlag Warszawa 1982. 286 pp., 6th edition 2005.
• Historia literatury niderlandzkiej . (History of Dutch Literature), co-author. D. Morciniec, Ossolineum.-Verlag, Wrocław 1985. 428 pp.
• The sound system of German and Polish . (German in contrast 10). J. Groos-Verlag, Heidelberg 1990. 131 pp.
• Nederlands-Pools, Pools-Nederlands Woordenboek . Kluwer-Verlag, Deventer 1993. 898 pp.
• Contrasting phonemics German-Dutch, Dutch-German . Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensiae No. 1491, Univ.-Verlag, Wrocław 1994. 93 pp.
• Valence lexicon of German and Polish verbs . (Co-author L. Cirko, R.Ziobro), Univ.-Verlag, Wrocław 1995. 346 pp.
• Gramatyka Języka Niderlandzkiego . (Dutch grammar). Univ.-Verlag., Wrocław 2001. 192 pp.
• Studia Philologica. Selected writings on German and Dutch studies . Oficyna Wydawnicza Atut, Wrocław 2002. 310 pp.
• Vita in Linguis. Writings on German and Dutch studies . Edited by Lesław Cirko and Stefan Kiedroń on the occasion of their 80th birthday. Oficyna Wydawnicza Atut, Wrocław 2012, 657 pp.
• Gramatyka kontrastywna. Wprowadzenie do niemiecko-polskiej gramatyki kontrastywnej . (Introduction to the German-Polish contrastive grammar). Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2014. 95 p. Second expanded edition 2016. 99 p.
• Historia języka niemieckiego . (History of the German language). Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2015. 265 p. 2nd reviewed and expanded edition 2018.

• Historia języka niderlandzkiego (History of the Dutch Language). Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2017. 315 pp.
• Historia literatury niderlandzkiej. (History of Dutch Literature). Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, Wrocław 2019. 198 pp.
• Gramatyka niemiecka w pytaniach i odpowiedziach (German grammar in questions and answers). Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, Wrocław 2020. 143 pp.

Memberships in scientific committees

• Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze (Polish Linguistic Society), since 1958, honorary member since 2012
• Wrocławskie Towarzystwo Naukowe (Wrocław Scientific Society), since 1969. Chairman of the Linguistic Commission, 1989–2003
• Komitet Neofilologiczny Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Neofilological Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences), since 1969
• Towarzystwo Germanistów Polskich (Polish Association of Germanists), since 1982
• Societas Linguistica Europaea, since 1983
• Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde , Gent (Belgium), since 1985
• Scientific advice of the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, since 1985

Awards

• Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1977
• Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 2012
• Ridder in de Kroonorde van het Konninkreijk Belgie, 1991
• Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau, 1992

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• Upper Silesian Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Part 2 (IP), Berlin 1993, p. 146
• Kto jest kim w Polsce? Informator biograficzny. Warszawa 1993, p. 474.
• Kto jest kim we Wrocławiu? Informator biograficzny. Wrocław 1999, p. 328.
• Współcześni uczeni polscy. Słownik biograficzny. Warszawa 2000, p. 326.
• Encyclopedia Wrocławia. Wrocław 2000, p. 519
• Złota księga nauki polskiej. Naukowcy przełomu wieku. Gliwice 2001, p. 345.
• Wielka Encyclopedia PWN. Vol. 18. Warszawa 2003, p. 93.
• Encyclopedia Actus Purus. Kto jest kim w Polsce nowego millenium (2000–2002) Poznań 2004, p. 368.
• Verba docent, exempla trahunt. For the 80th birthday of Norbert Morciniec. Edited by Peter Chmiel. Wrocław 2012.

Web links

• Homepage of Norbert Morciniec: http://www.morciniec.eu/
• http://www.wsf.edu.pl/34737.xml