Timo Meškank

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Timo Meškank ( ˈtimɔ ˈmʲɛʃkaŋk ; born February 4, 1965 in Dresden ) is a Sorbian linguist and historian who teaches as a private lecturer at the Institute for Sorbian Studies at the University of Leipzig .

Life

After attending schools in Leipzig from 1971 to 1979 , Meškank then attended the Sorbian Advanced High School in Bautzen, where he graduated from high school in 1983. After completing his military service, he studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Dresden from 1985 to 1989 . 1988–1990 he was editor of the Sorbian student newspaper Serbski student . In 1989/90 he completed a six-month internship at Domowina-Verlag in Bautzen.

A scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation studied Meškank 1990-1996 at the University of Leipzig Sorabistik and history for MA , interrupted by a stay 1992/1993 at the Charles University in Prague as part of the German Academic Exchange Service , where he and Sorabistik Bohemian studies took.

After residencies in Bautzen, Prague and Warsaw, he was at in 2000, Humboldt University of Berlin with the work is culture - Empire goes: Czechs and Sorbs (Contact) 1914-1945 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) PhD .

Meškank has been working at the University of Leipzig since 2000. His research areas here are the present-day Sorbian language and contemporary Sorbian history. As part of the project Sorbian Intellectuals in the Eye of State Security, he systematically deals with the relationship between the Ministry of State Security and the Sorbs.

In 2008 he qualified as a professor with the text Statement Structure in Sorbian: Investigations into Syntax and Sentence Semantics (Verlag Dr. Kovac).

In addition to his academic work, he also writes Sorbian fiction and poetry . Since 2007 he has been a member of the Exile PEN , of which he is a member of the executive committee.

Timo Meškank lives in Leipzig.

Works (selection)

  • Rěč je hrajka (1992)
  • Kostka w ręku (1997)
  • Retrogradny słownik hornjoserbskeje rěče (2001)
  • Proposition structure in Sorbian: Studies on syntax and sentence semantics (2009)
  • Kultura w słužbje totalitarneho režima (2011)
  • Wjelki jědu (Editor, 2013)
  • Instrumentalization of a culture (2014)
  • Prawopisny słownik hornjoserbskeje rěče. Hornjoserbsko-němski słownik / Upper Sorbian-German dictionary (editor, 2014)
  • Sorbs in the view of the State Security (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Sorabic Studies: PD Dr. Timo Meškank
  2. ↑ Unmasked! - Sorbian IM in the focus of science ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), Sorbenland.info, March 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ Sorbian intellectuals in the view of the State Security ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Presidium on the Exil-PEN website
personal data
SURNAME Meškank, Timo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian university professor, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden