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Place of Birth: Perleberg, Brandenburg, Germany
About Werner Lehfeldt
- Werner Lehfeldt (born 22 May 1943, Perleberg) is a German Slavist. Lehfeldt attended primary school Goethe-Oberschule in Perleberg and after the escape from East Germany, from 1960 to 1962 the Ostseegymnasium in Timmendorfer Strand, where he graduated in 1962.
- From 1962, he studied Slavic Studies at the Universities of Mainz, Hamburg, Sarajevo and Bochum, receiving a degree in Bochum in 1967 in Slavic Studies and history.
- He continued to work there the same year as a researcher.
- In 1973 he habilitated in Bochum and in 1976 was appointed as the Chair in the Department of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Konstanz.
- In 1980 he declined an offer from the University of Hamburg and also in 1991 as a professor at the University of Geneva, where he taught as a guest professor for one semester.
- Between 1979 and 1989 he taught for ten semesters at the University of Basel.
- In 1991 he finally took a position at the University of Göttingen, where he led the Department of Slavic Philology from April 1992 until his retirement on 30 September 2011. Since 1992 he was a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Since 1994 he was a member of the Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften in Erfurt, and since 2011 a member of the Brunswick Scientific Society.
- On 9 February 1996 he became a full member of Philology and History class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
- On 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2012 he became a chairman of this class and a vice president of the Academy.
- On 28 October 2010 he received an honorary degree from the Moscow Institute of Russian Language by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- On 19 April 2012 he received an honorary degree by the University of Kazan. Since 1983 Lehfeldt was a co-editor of the journal Russian Linguistics, from 1993 to 2006 a leading co-editor and an editor-in-chief. His main research areas include: comparative morphology of Slavic languages diachronic and synchronic accentology of Slavic languages morphosyntax of Russian history of Russian and Serbo-Croatian quantitative phonology linguistic typology history of science.
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