The University of Vienna is a public research university located in Vienna,Austria. Founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365,it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest institutions of higher learning in Europe. The university is associated with 16 Nobel Prize winners and has been the home to many scholars of historical and academic importance.
Theodor Nöldeke was a German orientalist and scholar,originally a student of Heinrich Ewald. He is one of the founders of the field of Quranic studies,especially through his foundational work titled the History of the Quran. His research interests ranged over Old Testament studies,Semitic languages and Arabic,Persian and Syriac literature. Nöldeke translated several important works of oriental literature and during his lifetime was considered an important orientalist. He wrote numerous studies and contributed articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar,literary theorist,and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
A Doctor of Science is a science doctorate awarded in a number of countries throughout the world.
The University for Continuing Education Krems is an Austrian university specializing in further education for working professionals. It is located in Krems an der Donau,Lower Austria.
Eino Sakari Kaila was a Finnish philosopher,critic and teacher. He worked in numerous fields including psychology,physics and theater,and attempted to find unifying principles behind various branches of human and natural sciences.
The Institute for Human Sciences is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences based in Vienna,Austria.
Ida Friederike Görres was a Catholic writer. From the Coudenhove-Kalergi family,she was the daughter,one of seven children,of Count Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi and his Japanese wife Mitsuko Aoyama.
Herwig Wolfram is an Austrian historian who is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the University of Vienna and the former Director of the Institute of Austrian Historical Research. He is a leading member of the Vienna School of History,and internationally known for his authoritative works on the history of Austria,the Goths,and relationships between the Germanic peoples and the Roman Empire.
Aleida Assmann is a German professor of English and Literary Studies,who studied Egyptology and whose work has focused on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural and Communicative Memory.
Riitta Johanna Mappes is an evolutionary ecologist based in Finland. Her research focuses on interspecific interactions,such as those between predators and prey. She is known for her work on the evolution of aposematic signals and mimicry in chemically defended prey,the evolution of signal polymorphism,the evolution of bacterial virulence,and the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction. Her main study species include the wood tiger moth,vipers (Viperidae),the Colorado potato beetle and the drumming wolf-spider.
Thomas A. DuBois is a folklorist,scholar of Sámi culture,professor,and the former chair of the Department of German,Nordic,and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Tauno Frans Mustanoja (1912–1996) was a professor of English Philology and Literature at the University of Helsinki,Finland. He was a philologist and scholar of Medieval and Middle English. He was also a major influence in initiating what became the widespread study and use of the English language in Finland.
Barbara Jane Newman is an American medievalist,literary critic,religious historian,and author. She is Professor of English and Religion,and John Evans Professor of Latin,at Northwestern University. Newman was elected in 2017 to the American Philosophical Society.
Prof. Donald C. Kiraly,is an American linguist who specializes in foreign language teaching and translator training.
Andrew Peter Clement Chesterman is an English scholar based in Finland. He is best known for his work in Translation Studies and was Professor of Multilingual Communication at the University of Helsinki from 2002 to 2010. Chesterman was CETRA Professor in 1999,a member of the executive board of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) from 1998 to 2004,and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center of Translation Studies from 2007 to 2010. He has been a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters since 2005 and a Knight,First Class,of the Order of the White Rose of Finland since 2008.
Elly Margaret Tanaka is a biochemist and Scientific Director at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) in Vienna,Austria. Tanaka studies the molecular cell biology of limb and spinal cord regeneration as well as the evolution of regeneration.
Hanna Tervanotko is a Finnish-born Canadian historian of religion. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Ontario,Canada. Her research focuses on the Second Temple era and her research interests include women in antiquity,Qumran,Dead Sea Scrolls,and Jewish interpretation of scripture. She is affiliated with the Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" (CSTT) at the University of Helsinki.
Hanna Kyllikki Snellmann is Professor of Ethnology and Vice-rector at the University of Helsinki. The focus of her research is on migration within and from the Arctic.
Johanna Laakso is a Finnish linguist and Finno-Ugrist based at the University of Vienna.
