Bernhard Gröschel (19 June 1939 – 4 October 2009) was a German

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and

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Biography

Bernhard Gröschel studied Slavic Studies,

General Linguistics Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics which, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to theory of language, or the branch of linguistics which inquires into the n ...

Phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

and Communication Studies at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. In 1967 he received his

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Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

and continued to work there as a

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and lecturer. From 1977 to 2004 he worked at the Department of General Linguistics at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...

. Gröschel is best known for his

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''Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik'' (

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia an ...

between

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and

Politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

Selected publications

* ''Die Sprache Ivan Vyšenśkyjs: Untersuchungen und Materialien zur historischen Grammatik des Ukrainischen''. Slavistische Forschungen, Bd. 13 (in German). Köln and Wien: Böhlau Verlag. 1972, p. 384. . . . * ''Materialistische Sprachwissenschaft''. Pragmalinguistik, Bd. 15 (in German). Weinheim and Basel: Verlagsgruppe Beltz. 1978, p. 239. . * ''Sprachnorm, Sprachplanung und Sprachpflege''. Studium Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. 6 (in German). Münster: Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität. 1982, p. 232. * (with Elena Parwanowa) ''Russisch-deutsches Wörterbuch der linguistischen Terminologie: Band 1 und 2''. Studium Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 3 (in German). Münster: Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, 1985, p. 935. * ''Die Presse

Oberschlesien Upper Silesia ( pl, Górny Śląsk; szl, Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; cs, Horní Slezsko; german: Oberschlesien; Silesian German: ; la, Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located ...

s von den Anfängen bis zum Jahre 1945: Dokumentation und Strukturbeschreibung''. Schriften der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien: Landeskundliche Reihe, Bd. 4 (in German). Berlin: Gebr. Mann. 1993, p. 447. . * ''Studien und Materialien zur oberschlesischen Tendenzpublizistik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts''. Schriften der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien: Landeskundliche Reihe, Bd. 5 (in German). Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1993, p. 219. . * ''Themen und Tendenzen in Schlagzeilen der Kattowitzer Zeitung und des Oberschlesischen Kuriers 1925 - 1939: Analyse der Berichterstattung zur Lage der deutschen Minderheit in Ostoberschlesien''. Schriften der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien: Landeskundliche Reihe, Bd. 6 (in German). Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1993, p. 188. . * (with Clemens-Peter Herbermann and Ulrich Hermann Waßner) ''Sprache & Sprachen: Teil 1: Fachsystematik der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachensystematik; mit ausführlichen Terminologie- und Namenregistern'' (in German). Wiesbaden:

Harrassowitz Verlag Harrassowitz Verlag is a German academic publishing house, based in Wiesbaden. It publishes about 250 scholarly books and periodicals per year on Oriental, Slavic, and Book and Library Studies. The publishing house is part of the company Otto Ha ...

, 1997, p. 630. . * (with Clemens-Peter Herbermann and Ulrich Hermann Waßner) ''Sprache & Sprachen: Teil 2: Thesaurus zur allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachenthesaurus'' (in German). Wiesbaden:

, 2002, p. 389. . *
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Selected publications

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