Georg Holzer
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Georg Holzer is Austria
n Slavist and Indo-Europeanist
.
After graduating in Slavic Studies and Indo-European Studies at the University of Vienna
, he earned his doctorate in 1982. Immediately thereafter he started a three-year appointment as a lecturer for German language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
in Zagreb
. Since 1997 he has been an Associate Professor at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna. He also occasionally teaches at the universities of Zagreb
and Zadar
.
Holzer is the author of five books and over 50 scientific articles. In 1995, Holzer devised a new theory about the state of the Proto-Slavic language around 600 AD. After initial skepticism, the far-reaching statements on a relatively narrow empirical basis
have been recognized in comparative Slavistics. Holzer is the author of the article Urslawisch ('Proto-Slavic') published in the Lexikon der Sprachen des europäischen Ostens ('Encyclopaedia of the languages of the European East'). This is part of the plan of the Austrian Ministry of Science since 2000. The Encyclopedia of the European East (Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens, EEO) has been published, in Klagenfurt
.
Holzer directs the ongoing research project started in January 2001: The language of the medieval Slavs in Austria (Die Sprache des mittelalterlichen Slawentums in Österreich), conducted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
, with research assistant Angela Berger Mayer. As a result of this project a dictionary of medieval Slavic words and glosses will be published, based on toponomastic material covering the territory of Austria.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n Slavist and Indo-Europeanist
Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the...
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After graduating in Slavic Studies and Indo-European Studies at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, he earned his doctorate in 1982. Immediately thereafter he started a three-year appointment as a lecturer for German language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb is one of the top faculties of the University of Zagreb.-History:...
in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
. Since 1997 he has been an Associate Professor at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna. He also occasionally teaches at the universities of Zagreb
University of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...
and Zadar
University of Zadar
The University of Zadar is a university located in Zadar, Croatia. It was founded in 2002.- University Departments :The University of Zadar is entirely integrated university, consisting at present of over 20 departments:...
.
Holzer is the author of five books and over 50 scientific articles. In 1995, Holzer devised a new theory about the state of the Proto-Slavic language around 600 AD. After initial skepticism, the far-reaching statements on a relatively narrow empirical basis
Empiricism
Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience. One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism, idealism and historicism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence,...
have been recognized in comparative Slavistics. Holzer is the author of the article Urslawisch ('Proto-Slavic') published in the Lexikon der Sprachen des europäischen Ostens ('Encyclopaedia of the languages of the European East'). This is part of the plan of the Austrian Ministry of Science since 2000. The Encyclopedia of the European East (Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens, EEO) has been published, in Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...
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Holzer directs the ongoing research project started in January 2001: The language of the medieval Slavs in Austria (Die Sprache des mittelalterlichen Slawentums in Österreich), conducted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is a legal entity under the special protection of the Federal Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every field, particularly in fundamental research...
, with research assistant Angela Berger Mayer. As a result of this project a dictionary of medieval Slavic words and glosses will be published, based on toponomastic material covering the territory of Austria.
Books
- Entlehnungen aus einer bisher unbekannten indogermanischen Sprache im Urslavischen und Urbaltischen. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7001-1552-0
- Das Erschließen unbelegter Sprachen. Zu den theoretischen Grundlagen der genetischen Linguistik. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u.a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49372-X
- Die Slaven im Erlaftal. Eine Namenlandschaft in Niederösterreich. Editor Anton Eggendorfer and Willibald Rosner, NÖ Inst. für Landeskunde, Sankt Pölten 2001 ISBN 3-85006-135-3
- Rekonstruowanie języków niepoświadczonych. Pod redakcją Wacława Waleckiego. Przekład Jolanta Krzysztoforska-Doschek. Collegium Columbinum , Cracow 2001, ISBN 83-87553-37-9
- Historische Grammatik des Kroatischen. Einleitung und Lautgeschichte der Standardsprache, Peter Lang 2007, Frankfurt am main, ISBN 978-3-631-56119-5
External links
- Georg Holzer at the Vienna University Urslawisch - Georg Holzer's article on Proto-Slavic in the Enzyklopädie des Europäischen Ostens (EEO), Klagenfurt 2002 Complete bibliography