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Stefan Zimmer (* 1947 in Fulda ) is a German linguist (Indo-Europeanist and Celtologist) and professor emeritus at the University of Bonn .

He studied Indo-European Linguistics from 1966 to 1972 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate in 1972 under Werner Thomas on the sentence order of the finite verb in Tocharian . After completing his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant at the Indo-European seminar at Frankfurt University until 1975. Then he switched to Bernfried Schlerath's seminar for Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin , where he served as a university councilor until 1995. In this time, the habilitation fall for Comparative Indo-European linguistics through composition and dissipation in Welsh (1989), the time when Rhys fellow at the University of Oxford and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the city's Jesus College , the students from Wales had been established and is still committed to the Cymrian tradition (1992–1993), as well as the visiting professorship for Celtology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (1994–1995).

In 1995 he accepted a professorship (C4) for Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Celtology at the University of Bonn .

During this time, he also held visiting professorships at the École Pratique des Hautes Études , Paris (1997) and at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (2001). He has been retired since 2011 and his successor has not yet been clarified.

In 1992 Zimmer organized the first symposium of German-speaking Celtologists in Gosen near Berlin, followed by the second in Bonn in 1997. In 1999 the International Colloquium 150 Years of Mabinogion / German-Welsh Cultural Relations also took place in Bonn under his leadership, and finally the 13th International Celtological Congress in 2007 in cooperation with the Rheinisches Landesmuseum. From 2008 to 2014 he gave, together with Jürgen Uhlich u. a., the magazine for Celtic philology . In 2009 he was a co-founder of the Societas Celtologica Europaea . He is on the advisory board of several foreign linguistic journals. From 2000 to 2008 he was a specialist advisor for the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .

Web links

• Page from Stefan Zimmer at the Department of Celtology
• Stefan Zimmer's curriculum vitae on the pages of the Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie
• Gisbert Hemprich: History of Celtology and Indo-European Studies at the University of Bonn (as of 2008)
• Publications by Stefan Zimmer in RI-Opac
• Lesart (Deutschlandradio) with a review of the band Die Kelten
• Publications

Remarks

1. ^ Homepage of Bonner Keltologie, staff , last accessed April 26, 2017