Siegmund Brauner

Siegmund Brauner (born March 23, 1934 in Burkartshain ) is a German Africanist ( linguist ).

Life

Siegmund Brauner attended primary school in Nerchau , Grimma district and then the Goethe high school in Wurzen. After graduating from high school in 1952, he studied Slavic , Baltic and Pedagogical studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . With the university final examination of July 11, 1956 for the teaching post at the upper level in the main subject Russian as well as in the minor subjects Bulgarian and Lithuanian, Siegmund Brauner acquired the graduation of a diploma philologist .

After serving as a teacher at the Polytechnic High School in Beucha, in the spring semester of 1958 he was given a teaching position for Russian language at the Russian language department at KMU Leipzig.

In 1962, after completing additional studies with Dmitri Alexejewitsch Olderogge at the Chair of African Studies at the Zhdanov State University in Leningrad , Siegmund Brauner was entrusted with teaching African languages ​​and literatures at the Africa Institute of the University of Leipzig. The activity from 1968 to 1970 as head of the cultural center of the GDR in the Republic of Guinea and permanent delegate of the League for Friendship of Nations of the GDR for West Africa based in Conakry was followed in 1971 as a university lecturer and finally on September 1, 1973 as professor for African languages ​​on Africa teaching and research department of the African and Middle Eastern Studies Section at the University of Leipzig. From 1979 to 1982 he taught as visiting professor for Kiswahili at the University of Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania ). Since Siegmund Brauner ended his post as a professor at the University of Leipzig, he has been employed in teaching and research as a freelancer in academic institutions at home and abroad since 1993.

Qualifications

• Doctorate to Dr. phil. on June 18, 1960 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig .
• Habilitation to Dr. phil. habil. on September 30, 1968 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig
• Facultas Docendi for the Department of African Languages ​​and Literatures from June 1, 1970.

Memberships / functions

• 1962–1966 member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Asian, African and Latin American Studies at the State Secretariat for Higher and Technical Schools in the GDR .
• 1962–1968 head of the department for African languages ​​and literatures at the Africa Institute of the University of Leipzig.
• 1962–1968 member and secretary of the National Committee of Africanists in the GDR.
• 1965–1975 member of the West African Linguistics Society.
• 1967–1968 member of the Central Council for Asian, African and Latin American Studies of the GDR (ZENTRAAL) and head of the Linguistics working group.
• 1967–1968 member of the science. Council for linguistic research in the GDR at the Central Institute for Linguistics at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .
• 1968–1970 Permanent delegate of the League for Friendship of Peoples of the GDR in West Africa with headquarters in Conakry (Guinea) for duty to cooperate in Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Benin.
• 1968–1970 head of the cultural center of the GDR in Guinea.
• 1971–1990 Head of the Linguistics Section of the African and Middle Eastern Studies Section (ANW) (alternating).
• 1971–1990 member of the Central Council for Asian, African and Latin American Studies of the GDR (ZENTRAAL) and head of the Linguistics working group.
• 1971–1990 member of the editorial board of the magazine Asia, Africa and Latin America and of the studies on Asia, Africa and Latin America of ZENTRAAL in the GDR.
• 1971–1992 member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft u. Communication research.
• 1974–1979 Deputy Chairman of the Wiss. Advisory board for Asian, African and Latin American studies at the Ministry for Higher and Technical Education in the GDR .
• 1979–1990 member of the National Committee for Asian, African and Latin American Studies.
• 1979–1990 member of the National Committee for Linguistics at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .
• 1984–1986 head of the Africa teaching and research department at the ANW section at Leipzig University.
• 1985–1990 member of the Council for Language Teaching at the Ministry for Higher and Technical Education in the GDR .
• 1986–1991 Deputy Director of the Africa u. Middle East Studies for Education, Training and Further Education (EAW).

Publications

• with Joseph Kasella Bantu: Textbook of Swahili . (Textbooks for the Study of Oriental and African Languages; Vol. 8). VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1964, 1968 and 1973 (3rd revised edition)
• with Michael Ashiwaju: Textbook of the Hausa language. (Textbooks for the Study of Oriental and African Languages; Vol. 10). VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1965; Max Hueber Verlag, Munich 1966.
• Textbook for Brambara. VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1974.
• with Irmtraud Herms: Textbook of modern Swahili . VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1979, 1982, 1986 and 1990 (4th edition)
• with Natalja Venjaminovna Ochotina (Hrsg.): Studies on the national language development in Africa. Sociolinguistic and linguistic problems. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982.
• (Ed.): Common and national languages ​​in Africa (with 2 maps). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
• with Samson Huni: Introduction to Schona . (= African science textbooks ; Vol. 5). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne 1993.
• African studies in Leipzig. Vol. 1: 1895-1945. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne 1999.

literature

• Brauner, Siegmund . In: Linguisten-Handbuch Vol. 1, p. 100. Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1994.
• Brauner, Siegmund . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 20 (2005), Vol. 1: A – H. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 382
• Brauner, Siegmund . In: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Römhild, Lübeck 2010 (49th edition) p. 138.
• Felix Brahm, Adam Jones: African Studies. Teaching and research at the Karl Marx University. In: History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 . Vol. 4/1: Faculties, institutes, central facilities . Universitätsverlag Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-310-5 (complete edition), pp. 310-324

Web links

• Siegmund Brauner in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Siegmund Brauner, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 18, 2017