Heinz-Dieter Pohl | |
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Born | 6 September 1942 |
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Alma mater | University of Vienna |
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Discipline | Linguistics,onomatology |
Institutions | University of Klagenfurt |
Heinz-Dieter Pohl (born 6 September 1942 in Vienna,Austria) is an Austrian linguist and onomatologist.
Pohl is the son of gymnasium professor Heinz Pohl and Hermine Pohl. He studied classical philology and history at the University of Vienna,later comparative linguistics (Indo-European studies) with a focus on Slavic studies.
From 1967 to 1972 Pohl worked at the University of Vienna's Institute for General and Indo-European Linguistics,and in 1972 moved to the University of Pedagogic Sciences (now known as the University of Klagenfurt) as the professor of general and diachronic linguistics from 1979. Pohl retired on 1 October 2007 but is still active in research and education.
Focus areas of Pohl's later research include the study of placenames,German–Slovenian language contact (and historical-linguistic study of the Carantanian language),Bavarian–Austrian dialectology,Austrian German,ancient historical linguistics,diachronic-comparative study of languages and sociolinguistics.
Pohl is a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,the Austrian Board on Geographical Names (AKO) and the Standing Committee on Geographic Names (StAGN). He is also a member of the Society for the Bavarian Language and Dialects (FBSD),which studies Bavarian languages in Germany,Austria and Italy (South Tirol).
From 2000 to 2007 Pohl was a member of the Muttersprache society in Vienna.
On 10 November 2005 Pohl was awarded the Einspieler Prize of the Council of Carinthian Slovenians (Narodni svet koroških Slovencev) and the Christian Cultural Society (Krščanska kulturna zveza) of the Christian-conservative Advocacy Organisation of Slovenians in Klagenfurt. [1] According to the award committee,the linguists of the university "have greatly helped to ease the view of the Carinthian past and to see bilingualism as somewhat self-explanatory". [2]
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