Michael Schulte (professor)
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Michael Schulte (born 17 July 1963) in Aachen, Germany, is professor and chair of Nordic linguistics at the University of Agder in Norway.
Runology, historical sociolinguistics
Michael Schulte holds a Ph.d in historical linguistics from the University of Bonn and has studied in all the Nordic countries, particularly in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Schulte has published abundantly in high-profile journals on runology, language history, historical sociolinguistics and writing systems. At present he is working on the national language project "Norsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history), to appear in Oslo in 2015 in four volumes. Schulte is a member of several Academies such as Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and The Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Agder vitenskapsakademi, AVA) and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in Sweden (Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för Svensk Folkkultur, KGAA). He is an "International Cooperation Partner" of the Academy Project "Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen ‒ Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)", which is a long-term research project over 16 years under the umbrella of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Schulte is also a member of board in SEKEM Scandinavia since 2008.
Awards
In 2014 Schulte received the Fridtjof Nansen's Award for Excellent Research from the Nansen Trust (Nansenfondet) for his work on Old Germanic and Early Nordic linguistics.