Franz Rottland (4 December 1934 – 4 August 2014) was a German linguist and Africanist.[1]
Franz Rottland | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 December 1934 Gelsenkirchen, Germany |
| Died | 4 August 2014 (aged 79) Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Bayreuth |
| Main interests | Languages of Africa |
His interests included the historical linguistics of Nilotic languages[2] and Cushitic languages.[3][4]
Biography
editAfter receiving his doctorate on September 8, 1970 at Leiden University and his habilitation in 1979 at the University of Cologne, Rottland served as the Chair of African Studies II at the University of Bayreuth until 1998.
Rottland suffered from a fall in May 2014, then died in Germany on 4 August 2014, at the age of 79.[5]
Selected publications
edit- Die südnilotischen Sprachen. Beschreibung, Vergleichung und Rekonstruktion. Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-00161-5.
- editor, with Rainer Voßen: Afrikanische Wildbeuter. Internationales Symposion, Sankt Augustin, Januar 3–5, 1985 Tagungsberichte. African hunter gatherers. Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87118-761-5.
- editor: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Carl F. Hoffmann. Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87118-822-0.
- editor, with Lucia N. Omondi: Proceedings of the 3. Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Kisumu, Kenya, August 4–9, 1986. Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87548-001-5.
References
edit- ^ Voßen, Rainer, Angelika Mietzner, and Antje Meißner (2000). „Mehr als nur Worte ...“. Afrikanistische Beiträge zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland. Cologne. ISBN 3-89645-125-1.
- ^ Rottland, Franz. 1979. The reconstruction of proto-Kalenjin. (Papers from the Inst. of African Studies (IAS), 128.) Nairobi: Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi.
- ^ Heine, Bernd, Franz Rottland & Rainer Voßen. 1979. Proto-Baz: Some aspects of early Nilotic-Cushitic contacts. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 1. 75‒92.
- ^ Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9. S2CID 133888593.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Franz Rottland". Uni Bayreuth. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
External links
edit- Publications at Rüdiger Köppe Verlag