Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner / prof. dr. Edward Wornar

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Head of Department, Professor for Sorbian Studies,
Sorbian Linguistics, research centre for minority languages
Phone: 03 41 / 97 37 651
GWZ - Office room 1205
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Consultation hours: Tu 11:30-12:30


Curriculum vitae

 

born in 1966

 

1972-1985

school

1985-1991

Slavic and Indoeuropean Studies (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

1987

first visit to the Sorbian region

1991-1993

PhD grant (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)

1993-2003

work as researcher and teacher at the Serbski Institut z. t. in Bautzen/Budyšin

1996

PhD “Studien zum sorbischen Verbum” (Bonn)

1999

habilitation “Die Verbalaffigierung im Obersorbischen” (Saarbrücken)

since 2003

profesor for Sorbian Studies and head of the Institute for Sorbian Studies at the Leipzig University


Prof dr. Wornar is married and has two children.

Membership in committees


    • Upper Sorbian Language Committee

    • Commission for Phonetics and Phonology of the International Committee of Slavists

    • Responsible for language exams of the German Esperanto Association for Saxony

    • Head of committee for exams in Slavic and Sorbian Studies of the University of Leipzig

Research interests


  • Contemporary Sorbian

  • History of the Sorbian languages

  • European regional and minority languages, especially Welsh and Modern Cornish


Selected publications

Eduard Werner. Die Verbalaffigierung im Obersorbischen. Spisy serbskeho instituta 34. Domowina-Verlag 2003

Eduard Werner. Das Petschaft von Kayna. In: Uwe Junghanns (Hrsg.). Specimina philologiae slavicae 149. Linguistische Beiträge zur Slavistik. XIII. JungslavistInnen-Treffen in Leipzig 23.-26. September 2004. 63-72

Jana Šolćina, Edward Wornar.  Obersorbisch im Selbststudium/Hornjoserbšćina w samostudiju. Domowina-Verlag 2000, 2002, 2011

Edward Wornar. Jendźelsko-hornjoserbski šulski słownik. English Upper Sorbian Learner's Dictionary Sobuawtor Měrćin Strawch. Nakładnistwo Domowina 2007