Rainer Maria Voigt

Rainer Maria Voigt (born January 17, 1944 in Neuruppin ( evacuated from Berlin )) is a German Semitist .

Life

From 1950 to 1963 he attended schools in Rosenheim , Neukirchen-Vluyn , Mönchengladbach and Coburg . After graduating from high school at Casimirianum Coburg , he studied Protestant theology in Neuendettelsau and Tübingen from 1963 to 1965 , Islamic studies and ancient oriental studies in Tübingen from 1965 to 1967 and Semitic and African studies, ancient oriental studies and Arabic studies in Marburg and Gießen from 1967 to 1974 . After receiving his doctorate in 1974 in Semitic Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg , he was a research assistant at the Oriental Seminary in Tübingen from 1976 to 1986 . After completing his habilitation in Semitic Studies in 1984 ("The corporate verbal types of Arabic and the problem of biradicalism") in Tübingen, he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation in 1986 and from 1986 to 1988 a research position at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . In 1988 he was offered the chair for Semitic Studies at the Free University of Berlin (successor to Rudolf Macuch ). In 1994 he was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

The Tigrin verbal system . Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-496-00545-9 .
The corporate verbal types of Arabic and the biradicalism problem . Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-04441-8 .
as editor: Tigre studies in the 21st century. Tigre Studies in the 21st Century . Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-89645-682-3 .
as editor: Studies in Honor of Enno Littmann . Files of the III. Enno Littmann Conference, 1. – 4. April 2009, Berlin . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-89645-681-6 .

as editors Bogdan Burtea, Josef Tropper and Helen Younansardaroud: Studia semitica et semitohamitica. Festschrift for Rainer Voigt on the occasion of his 60th birthday on January 17, 2004 . Münster 2005, ISBN 3-934628-73-7 .
as editor Hatem Elliesie: Multidisciplinary views on the Horn of Africa. Festschrift in Honor of Rainer Voigt's 70th birthday . Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-89645-683-0 .