Conrad Max Benedict Brann (born July 20, 1925 in

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, ...

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, died June 23, 2014) was a German-British

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and professor at

University of Maiduguri The University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) is a Federal higher institution located in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno State in northeast Nigeria. The university was created by the federal government of Nigeria in 1975, with the intention of its ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

. Brann opened a personal library in his living area that influenced the lives of language/linguistics students and English students.

Career

Brann's early life was spent in Germany and

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. Brann studied Linguistics and International Relations in Hamburg, Rome, Oxford, Paris and Bruges. He taught English Language at the University of Hamburg and was from 1958 to 1965 in the administration of

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. Brann lived in Nigeria from 1966. He is the founder and was from 1977 head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Maiduguri. His main work has been definition and explanation of language use in a multilingual or bilingual societies, with focus on Nigeria.

Honors

* 1990:

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

* 1999: Festschrift in Honour of Conrad Max Benedict Brann, University of Maiduguri * 2004: Member of the Order of the Federal Republic, Nigeria

Literature

* William Charles McCormack, Stephen Adolphe Wurm (ed.): Language and society: anthropological issues. - Mouton, 1979 * Brann, C.M.B., "Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis". In: Ammon, Ulrich (ed.). ''Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties''. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989, pp. 372–385 * Brann, C.M.B., "Reflexions sur la langue franque (lingua franca): Origine et Actualité", ''La Linguistique'', 30/1, 1994, pp. 149–159 * Brann, C.M.B., "The National Language Question: Concepts and Terminology." ''Logos'' niversity of Namibia, WindhoekVol 14, 1994, pp. 125–134

References

External links

"Conrad Max Benedict Brann," Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (bio from ''The Nation'' (Nigeria), 13 March 2010)
Linguists from the United Kingdom Linguists from Germany 2014 deaths 1925 births University of Maiduguri faculty Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German expatriates in Italy German expatriates in the United Kingdom German expatriates in France German expatriates in Belgium German expatriates in Nigeria {{academic-stub