Georg Holzer (born 1957 in

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) is an

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Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

and

Indo-Europeanist Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

. After graduating in Slavic Studies and Indo-European Studies at the

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, he earned his doctorate in 1982. Immediately thereafter he started a three-year appointment as a lecturer for German language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in

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. Since 1997 he has been an associate professor at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna. He also occasionally teaches at the universities of

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. Holzer is the author of five books and over 50 scientific articles. In 1995, Holzer devised a new theory about the state of the

Proto-Slavic Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium B.C. through the 6th ...

language around 600 AD. After initial skepticism, the far-reaching statements on a relatively narrow empirical basis have been recognized in comparative Slavistics. Holzer is the author of the article ''Urslawisch'' ('Proto-Slavic') published in the ''Lexikon der Sprachen des europäischen Ostens'' ('Encyclopaedia of the languages of the European East'). This is part of the plan of the Austrian Ministry of Science since 2000. The Encyclopedia of the European East (Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens'', EEO) has been published, in

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. Holzer directs the ongoing research project started in January 2001: ''The language of the medieval Slavs in Austria'' (''Die Sprache des mittelalterlichen Slawentums in Österreich''), conducted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with research assistant Angela Bergermayer. As a result of this project a dictionary of medieval Slavic words and glosses will be published, based on toponomastic material covering the territory of Austria.

Books

* ''Entlehnungen aus einer bisher unbekannten indogermanischen Sprache im Urslavischen und Urbaltischen''. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989, * ''Das Erschließen unbelegter Sprachen. Zu den theoretischen Grundlagen der genetischen Linguistik''. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u.a. 1996, * ''Die Slaven im Erlaftal. Eine Namenlandschaft in Niederösterreich''. Editor Anton Eggendorfer and Willibald Rosner, NÖ Inst. für Landeskunde, Sankt Pölten 2001 * ''Rekonstruowanie języków niepoświadczonych. Pod redakcją Wacława Waleckiego. Przekład Jolanta Krzysztoforska-Doschek''. Collegium Columbinum, Cracow 2001, * ''Historische Grammatik des Kroatischen. Einleitung und Lautgeschichte der Standardsprache'', Peter Lang 2007, Frankfurt am main,

External links

*
Georg Holzer at the Vienna UniversityUrslawisch
- Georg Holzer's article on Proto-Slavic in the ''Enzyklopädie des Europäischen Ostens'' (EEO), Klagenfurt 2002
Complete bibliography
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