Siegfried Theissen

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Siegfried Theissen

Siegfried Theissen (born March 28, 1940 in Eupen ) is a Belgian Germanist and linguist .

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After graduating from the Royal Athenaeum in Eupen, Theissen attended the Regency School in Nivelles , where he obtained a secondary school teacher diploma in 1960. He then got a job as a teacher in Dolhain and from 1963 began studying German at the University of Liège , which he completed in 1967. Subsequently, he initially got a position as a German teacher at the Royal Athenaeum in Verviers , but only a year later he was brought back to the University of Liège as an assistant for Dutch philology by his former professor, where he received his doctorate in 1973 on Germanisms in modern Dutch .

With the exception of an interim semester as a lecturer at the University of Cologne , Theissen continued to work at the University of Liège, which appointed him in 1979, initially as associate professor and from 1989 as full professor for the chair of modern Dutch philology , language proficiency and dialectology . Theissen retired in 2005.

As a special honor, Theissen received admission to the Royal Academy for Dutch Linguistics and Literature in 1999 as the only German-speaking scientist to date and was also admitted to the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Theissen is the author of numerous non-fiction books, including declining dictionaries for German-Dutch, contrastive dictionaries for German-Dutch, German-French and French-Dutch as well as dictionaries on German, Dutch and French idioms . Especially after his retirement, Theissen concentrated on the Eupener Platt and brought out, among other things, a new edition of the dictionary of Eupen dialect by August Tonnar and Wilhelm Evers. Furthermore, he wrote several plays that were performed by the Eupener Theaterfreunde, and wrote a weekly column for the Grenz-Echo newspaper in 2012-2013 under the title: "Vertélltjere".

Fonts (selection)

  • De germanismen in de moderne Nederlandse woordenschat , Belgisch Interuniversitair Centrum voor Neerlandistiek, Gent 1975
  • AN-woordenboek voor correct taalgebruik , together with Hendrik Heidbüchel & Jef Vromans, Heideland-Orbis, Antwerp, 1987, ISBN 90 291 3057 1
  • Declining dictionary of German (Série des langues germaniques; Part 2). together with Raymond Alexis, Michel Kefer, Gerd-Theo Tewilt: CIPL, Liège 1992.
  • Woordenboek voor correct taalgebruik , together with Liliane Gehlen & Jef Vromans, Wolters, Leuven, 1994 (first edition), ISBN 90 309 9608 0 , 1996 (second edition), ISBN 90 309 9609 9
  • Woordenboek voor correct taalgebruik , together with Peter Debrabandere, Wolters Plantyn, Mechelen, 2004, ISBN 90 301 8318 7
  • Dictionnaire contrastif français-allemand , together with Caroline Klein, Presses Univ. de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 2010, ISBN 978-2-87463-234-1
  • French Idioms, Proverbs, Comparisons, Abbreviations and Acronyms , Presses Univ. de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 2011, ISBN 978-2-87463-299-0
  • Duitse zegswijzen, spreekwoorden, vergelijkingen, verkortingen en letterwoorden , together with Caroline Klein, Presses Univ. de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 2011, ISBN 978-2-87558-009-2
  • New dictionary of the Eupen dialect , Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86712-078-4
  • Contrastive prepositions German - French , Presses Univ. de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 2013, ISBN 978-2-87558-216-4
  • New dictionary of the Eupen dialect , Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86712-078-4
  • New dictionary of the Eupen dialect: follow-up volume , self-published, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86712-078-4
  • Prépositions contrastives Français-Allemand , together with Caroline Klein, Presses Univ. de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 2016, ISBN 978-2-87558-446-5
  • Vertélltjere , Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86712-121-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appointed to the Polish Academy , in: Grenz-Echo, May 7, 2011
  2. ↑ Heinz Godesar: De Öüpener Schproëk op Huëchdöttsch ärrkläärt , in Grenz-Echo from April 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Theissen, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Germanist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen