Heinz-Dieter Pohl

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Heinz-Dieter Pohl
Born (1942-09-06) 6 September 1942 (age 81)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics, onomatology
InstitutionsUniversity of Klagenfurt

Heinz-Dieter Pohl (born 6 September 1942 in

onomatologist
.

Life

Pohl is the son of

Indo-European studies) with a focus on Slavic studies
.

From 1967 to 1972 Pohl worked at the University of Vienna's Institute for General and Indo-European Linguistics, and in 1972 moved to the University of Pedagogic Sciences (now known as the

diachronic
linguistics from 1979. Pohl retired on 1 October 2007 but is still active in research and education.

Focus areas of Pohl's later research include the study of

placenames, German–Slovenian language contact (and historical-linguistic study of the Carantanian language), Bavarian–Austrian dialectology, Austrian German, ancient historical linguistics, diachronic-comparative study of languages and sociolinguistics
.

Pohl is a corresponding member of the

South Tirol
).

From 2000 to 2007 Pohl was a member of the Muttersprache society in Vienna.

Awards

On 10 November 2005 Pohl was awarded the Einspieler Prize [de] of the Council of Carinthian Slovenians (Narodni svet koroških Slovencev) and the Christian Cultural Society (Krščanska kulturna zveza) of the Christian-conservative Advocacy Organisation of Slovenians in Klagenfurt.[1] According to the award committee, the linguists of the university "have greatly helped to ease the view of the Carinthian past and to see bilingualism as somewhat self-explanatory".[2]

Partial bibliography

References

  1. ^ Heinz Dieter Pohl erhält Einspieler-Preis. University of Klagenfurt 10 November 2005. Accessed on 8 November 2020.
  2. ^ Einspielerpreis, Kleine Zeitung, Klagenfurt 10 November 2005, p. 57.

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