Peter Scherfer

Peter Scherfer (born February 14, 1945 in Großwig, Dreiheide ; † April 19, 2008 in Wuppertal ) was a German Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Scherfer graduated from high school in Bremerhaven. He studied Romance and English at the Universities of Kiel and Nantes, passed the state examination in Kiel in 1973 and became an employee. He went with Christoph Schwarze from Kiel to Konstanz, where he received his doctorate in 1976 on Functional Variation in French. Linguistic and foreign language didactic studies (published and T. Functionale Sprachvarianten. An investigation into French under foreign language didactic aspects , Kronberg im Taunus 1977). As an assistant, he completed his habilitation in 1982 with studies on the language awareness of patois speakers in Franche-Comté (Tübingen 1983). From 1981 he was Professor of Romance Studies / Linguistics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

Scherfer had been an honorary doctorate from the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon since 1995 .

Other works

Lexical learning in foreign language teaching, in: Handbuch der Lexikologie, ed. by Christoph Schwarze u. a., Königstein im Taunus 1985, pp. 412-440
(Ed.) Sprachliche Variation, in: Moderne Sprachen 48, 2004
(Ed. With Dieter Wolff) On teaching and learning foreign languages. A preliminary inventory, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2006

literature

Linguist's Handbook, ed. by Wilfried Kürschner, Tübingen 1994 sv

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personal data
SURNAME	Scherfer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Großwig, Dreiheide
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 2008
Place of death	Wuppertal