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Stefan Michael Newerkla

Stefan Michael Newerkla

Austrian linguist; expert on language contact in the Habsburg Empire

Stefan Michael Newerkla (/ˈnəvərklɒ/; born October 7, 1972) is an Austrian linguist, Slavist and philologist. He has taught as Professor of West Slavic Linguistics at the University of Vienna since 2004 and has been Full Member (Fellow) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2018.[1]

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Biography

Born in Horn, Lower Austria, Newerkla majored in Slavonic Studies as well as English and American Studies at Vienna University (1996). He took his PhD (1998) at this very university with his doctoral thesis on diglossia in the school system of the Czech-speaking crown lands of the Habsburg Empire (1740–1918) featuring the West Bohemian district town of Plzeň. From 2000 to 2003 he was employed in a research project of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) on linguistic contacts between Czech, Slovak and German, which he completed with his postdoctoral thesis (habilitation) on German loanwords in Czech and Slovak, highlighting their historical development, giving their first evidence in literature and presenting previous and new etymologies for them.[2] Newerkla was appointed Professor of West Slavic Linguistics at the Alma Mater Rudolphina Vindobonensis in 2004.[3]

He is married to Lenka Newerkla, a senior lecturer of Czech at the University of Salzburg. Together, they have three children.[4] His brother Nikolaus Newerkla is the conductor of the award-winning ensemble Quadriga Consort.

Work

Newerkla's research interests include German-Slavic language contact, Central Europe as a linguistic area, language legislation, schooling and language education in the Habsburg Empire, and Vienna's contributions to Czech and Slovak National Renaissance.[5] Moreover, he is co-author of textbooks and exercise books for Czech and Slovak language classes.[6] Newerkla publishes several book series,[7] and – together with Fedor Poljakov – the international journal Vienna Slavic Yearbook (Harrassowitz publishing house).[8]

Currently, Newerkla is working mainly on two research areas supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) – on the project "German and Slavic languages in Austria: aspects of language contact", which is part of the Special Research Programme (SFB) "German in Austria. Variation – Contact – Perception",[9] and together with Roman Krivko and Fedor Poljakov on the international joint project "Slavic studies in exchange: Austria and Russia in 1849–1939".[10]

Together with Alexandra N. Lenz, Newerkla also contributes to the thematic platform on multilingualism of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) with the project "Aspects of Multilingualism in Austria: Competence – Usage – Attitudes". Moreover, he is founding member of the "Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe".[11]

Honors

Newerkla has been elected Member of the Academic Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2010 and of its Science Council since 2013.[12]

In 2017, he was awarded the Josef Dobrovský Honorary Medal for Merit in the Philological and Philosophical Sciences of the Czech Academy of Sciences.[13]

In 2014, Newerkla was elected Corresponding Member and in 2018 Full Member (Fellow) of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[14] Since 2022 he is also elected Member of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[15]

In 2023 he received the Premia Bohemica for the year 2023 for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of Czech literature abroad.[16]

References

  1. [1]
    "Curriculum vitae". u:cris – research information system of the University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  2. [2]
    Newerkla, Stefan Michael (July 1, 2022). Open access to Sprachkontakte Deutsch – Tschechisch – Slowakisch. Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter im Tschechischen und Slowakischen: historische Entwicklung, Beleglage, bisherige und neue Deutungen, 780 pp. Phaidra – u:scholar-Collection of the University of Vienna for Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets. doi:10.3726/978-3-653-03121-8. ISBN 9783653031218. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Jüngster Uni-Professor". Niederösterreichische Nachrichten – Zwettler Zeitung. 135 (12): 79. & "Weltweit jüngster Slawistik-Professor". Niederösterreichische Nachrichten – Horn-Eggenburg. 135 (15): 8.
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    "Newerkla, Lenka Mag". University of Salzburg. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
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    "Curriculum vitae & Research interests". u:cris – research information system of the University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  6. [6]
    "Publication list". University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
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    "Herausgeberfunktionen in Buchreihen". University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  8. [8]
    "Vienna Slavic Yearbook". Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Task-Cluster C: Contact". Special Research Programme "German in Austria. Variation – Contact – Perception". July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  10. [10]
    "Forschungsprojekte und Forschungsplattformen". University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  11. [11]
    "Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan-Michael Newerkla". Research Platform Transformations and Eastern Europe at the University of Vienna. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  12. [12]
    "List of Members of Science Council: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan Michael Newerkla". Czech Academy of Sciences. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
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    "Awarded The Josef Dobrovský Honorary Medals for Merit in the Philological and Philosophical Sciences". Czech Academy of Sciences. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
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    "Stefan Michael Newerkla". Austrian Academy of Sciences. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  15. [15]
    "Members of the Academy Council". Austrian Academy of Sciences. July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  16. [16]
    Stefan Michael Newerkla: Premia Bohemica
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