Claus Schönig
Claus Schönig | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 23, 1955 |
| Died | June 23, 2019 (aged 63) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
| Thesis | Hilfsverben im Tatarischen (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johannes Benzing |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Free University of Berlin |
Claus Schönig (October 23, 1955 – June 23, 2019) was a German Turkologist.[1] His interests included the historical linguistics of the Turkic languages, Altaistics, and Turko-Mongolic relations.[2]
Career
Schönig was born in the Weisenau district of Mainz in 1955.[3] He studied under Johannes Benzing from 1974-1981 at the University of Mainz, where he studied Turkology, Islamic Studies, and Islamic philology. Other faculty who influenced his work at the time were Lars Johanson, Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf and Ahmed Temir.[4] His 1984 dissertation focused on auxiliary verbs in Tatar. In 1995 he obtained a German Habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on finite predications and text structure in the Baburnama.
Schönig held academic positions at a variety of institutions, including the University of Mainz, Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the University of Giessen.[4] From 1993 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2007 he served as the director of the Orient-Institut Istanbul. From 2007 until 2019, he held the appointed position of Turkology at the Free University of Berlin as the successor of Barbara Kellner-Heinkele. During this time he served as the director of the University's Institute for Turkology.[3][4]
Awards and Honors
- 2006. Member, Academia Europaea[2][3]
- 2009. Member, Göttingen Academy of Sciences[4][5]
References
- ^ Cwiklinski, Sebastian (2019). "Claus Schönig (23 October 1955–23 June 2019)". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 72 (4): 473–475. doi:10.1556/062.2019.72.4.6. ISSN 0001-6446.
- ^ a b "Academy of Europe: Schönig Claus". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ a b c Erdal, Marcel (2019). "In Memorian Claus Schönig (1955-2019)". Turkic Languages. 23: 149–152.
- ^ a b c d Ragagnin, Elisabetta (2020-04-21). "Farewell to Claus Schönig". International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics. 1 (2): 237–248. doi:10.1163/25898833-12340015. ISSN 2589-8825.
- ^ "Mitglieder: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (AdW)". adw-goe.de. Retrieved 2023-02-17.