Bernd Nothofer
Bernd Nothofer | |
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| Born | 18 December 1941 Krefeld, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Main interests | Austronesian languages |
Bernd Nothofer (born 18 December 1941 in Krefeld, Germany) is a German linguist. His primary research interests include Austronesian historical linguistics, Malayic dialectology, and the languages of Indonesia.[1]
Education
[edit]After graduating from high school, Nothofer studied in Bonn starting from 1962. In 1966, he obtained a License de Lettre libre at the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France and taught German and French philology at Millersville State College in Pennsylvania, United States.
From 1967 to 1973, he studied linguistics with Isidore Dyen at Yale University. In 1973, he graduated with PhD in Linguistics after completing fieldwork in the Indonesian provinces of West Java and Central Java. In 1977, he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne.[2]
Career
[edit]From 1973 to 1981, Nothofer was a research assistant at the University of Cologne and lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1981, he joined Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he was Professor at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies until his retirement in 2008.
From 1985 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Andalas, University of Brunei Darussalam, Universitas Gadjah Mada, the Australian National University, University of Hawaii, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and the University of Melbourne.
In 2006, he was honored with the festschrift Insular Southeast Asia: linguistic and cultural studies in honor of Bernd Nothofer in Frankfurt.[3]
In 2012, another festschrift in honor of Nothofer was published in Yogyakarta, titled Seminar Sehari bersama Prof. Dr. Bernd Nothofer dan Purnabakti Dr. Inyo Yos Fernandez.
Personal life
[edit]Nothofer is married and has three children.
Selected publications
[edit]- The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic. In: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 73 (1975). Nijhoff, The Hague.
- Dialektgeographische Untersuchungen in West-Java und im westlichen Zentraljava. 2 Bände. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980.
- Dialektatlas von Zentral-Java. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981.
- with K.-H. Pampus, Gloria und Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche. Teil 1. Groos, Heidelberg 1985.
- with K.-H. Pampus, Gloria und Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche. Teil 2. Groos, Heidelberg 1987.
- (editor). Die deutsche Malaiologie. Festschrift zu Ehren von Frau Professor Dr. Irene Hilgers-Hesse. Groos, Heidelberg 1988.
- with K.-H. Pampus: Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche. Teil 1. Zweite, vollständig überarbeitete Auflage. Groos, Heidelberg 1988.
- (editor). Reconstruction, Classification, Description. Festschrift in Honor of Isidore Dyen. Abera, Hamburg 1997.
- Dialek Melayu Bangka. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 1997.
- Pengantar etimologi. Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta 2013.
References
[edit]- ^ Adib, Holy (April 6, 2019). "Dialek dan Logat: Istilah yang Tertukar". Beritagar. Archived from the original on July 30, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2020..
- ^ Bernd Nothofer. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
- ^ Mueller, Franz. Review of Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and cultural studies in honour of Bernd Nothofer. Oceanic Linguistics 47, no. 2 (2008): 468-469. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0013.
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