Georg Holzer

Georg Holzer ( born March 9, 1957 in Vienna) is an Austrian Slavic and Indo-Europeanist.

Life

Holzer works as an associate professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna. He is the author of four monographs and more than 50 scientific articles. In 1995, Holzer came out with a new theory about the development of the proto- Slavic language around 600 AD. The far-reaching statements on relatively narrow empirical basis have found after initial skepticism within the Slavic widely recognized. Holzer is the author of the article published in 2002 in the lexicon of Proto-Slavic languages ​​of Eastern Europe. This is part of on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Science published in Klagenfurt since 2000 Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe ( EEO ).

Holzer 's book series out writings on language and texts, in so far ( as of 2007) eight volumes have been published. He is also the author of the first volume of this series ( Opening up blank languages ​​, Vienna 1996).

In addition, Holzer manages the from 1 January 2001 ongoing research project, the language of the medieval Slavs in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Research Associate: Angela Berger Mayer). In the course of this project, a glossary of medieval Slavic words is created, which can be demonstrated in the onomastic material in Austria. After each entry, the documentary mentions of ( Germanized ) Slavic word, the current location name and its location are given.

Publications (monographs )

  • Borrowings from a hitherto unknown Indo-European language in Proto-Slavic and Urbaltischen. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7001-1552-0 ( habilitation thesis )
  • Opening up blank languages. The theoretical foundations of genetic linguistics. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al 1996, ISBN 3- 631-49372 -X
  • The Slavs in Erlaftal. A name landscape in Lower Austria. Published by Anton Eggendorfer and Willibald Rosner, NE Inst for Regional Studies, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3-85006-135-3
  • Rekonstruowanie języków niepoświadczonych. Pod redakcją Wacława Waleckiego. Przekład Jolanta Krzysztoforska - Doschek. Collegium columbinum, Kraków 2001, ISBN 83-87553-37-9
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