Rainer Voßen

Rainer Voßen (born December 6, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) is a German Africanist .

Life

From 1972 to 1982 he studied African studies, ethnology, history and prehistory and early history at the University of Cologne . After receiving his doctorate in 1982 as Dr. phil. In Cologne , he was a temporary academic advisor at the Chair of African Studies II at the University of Bayreuth from 1984 to 1990 . After completing his habilitation in 1990 in Bayreuth , he was temporary senior assistant at the Chair of African Studies II and private lecturer at the University of Bayreuth from 1990 to 1992 . In 1993 he became a university professor (C3) for African languages ​​/ linguistics at Goethe University .

Fonts (selection)

• The eastern Nilotes. Linguistic and historical reconstructions . Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-00698-6 .
• Towards a comparative study of the Maa dialects of Kenya and Tanzania . Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-87118-852-2 .
• Patterns of language knowledge and language use in Ngamiland, Botswana . Bayreuth 1988, OCLC 220974437 .
• The Khoe languages. A contribution to the study of the linguistic history of Africa . Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-927620-59-9 .

literature

• as editors Klaus Beyer, Gertrud Boden, Bernhard Köhler and Ulrike Zoch: Linguistics across Africa. Festschrift for Rainer Vossen . Cologne 2019, ISBN 3-89645-510-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Voßen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Rainer Voßen