Stefan Michael Newerkla

Stefan Michael Newerkla (born October 7, 1972 in Horn ) is an Austrian linguist and Slavist.

Newerkla grew up in Groß Gerungs in the Waldviertel. After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium Zwettl in 1991, Newerkla studied Slavic, English and American studies at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1998 and received her doctorate in 1998 on the intended and actual linguistic reality in Bohemia - diglossia in the school system of the Czech-speaking countries of the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-1918 Example of the West Bohemian district town Plzeň (Pilsen) . From 2000 to 2003 he was involved in a research project on linguistic contacts between Czech, Slovak and German and completed his habilitation in 2003 with a thesis on the subject of language contacts Czech - German - Slovak. German loan words in Czech and Slovak: historical development, evidence, previous and new interpretations . Since 2004 he has been Professor of West Slavonic Linguistics at the University of Vienna.

From 2009 to 2016 Newerkla acted as a member of the Senate of the University of Vienna , until 2013 as the chairman of the teaching post (STGLA) steering group and until 2016 also as chairman of the Senate's curriculum commission, responsible for all curricula at the University of Vienna. Between 2006 and 2016, Newerkla was also a member of the Standing Working Group on Philology and Literature of the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Education of the Czech Republic.

Since 2009 Newerkla has been the Austrian co-chair of the Standing Conference of Austrian and Czech Historians on the Common Cultural Heritage (SKÖTH) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs and the Czech Foreign Ministry . On behalf of SKÖTH, the project “Joint Austrian-Czech History Book”, completed in 2018, was carried out, a comparative presentation of the history of the two states and societies based on the latest research results.

As a member of the consortium, he is currently head of the special research area (SFB) F 60-G23 “German in Austria” financed by the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) . Variation - Contact - Perception "the task cluster on language contact with the sub-project" German and Slavic languages in Austria: Aspects of language contact ".

Newerkla has been a member of the Academic Assembly since 2010 and of the Scientific Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2013 . In 2017 he received the Josef Dobrovský Medal of Honor from the Czech Academy of Sciences for services to philological and philosophical sciences. In 2014 Newerkla was elected a corresponding member in Germany and in 2018 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Newerkla is considered to be one of the leading experts in German-Slavic language contact, Central Europe as a language area and research into Austrianism, Slavic language law, schools and language teaching in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as Vienna's contributions to the Czech and Slovak national renewal. He has published over 20 books and more than 130 scientific articles in these fields, is co-author of textbooks and exercise books for Czech and Slovak, and has successfully carried out several research projects.

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SURNAME	Newerkla, Stefan Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian linguist and Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	horn