Bernd Nothofer | |
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Born | Krefeld, Germany | 18 December 1941
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]
After graduating from high school,Nothofer studied in Bonn starting from 1962. In 1966,he obtained a License de Lettre libre at the Universitéde 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]
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.
Nothofer is married and has three children.
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