Martin Haase (born 25 October 1962) is a German

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

professor at the University of Bamberg as well as a linguist, polyglot, and podcaster.

Education

After secondary school graduation from Helene-Lange-Gymnasium (Dortmund, 1982), Haase studied general linguistics, Romance languages and historical linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics at the Universities of University of Toulouse, Toulouse and University of Cologne, Cologne, writing his 1991 Ph.D. thesis on language contact and language change: ''Die Einflüsse des Gaskognischen und Französischen auf das Baskische'' ("The influences of Gascon language, Gascon (Occitan language, Occitan) and French language, French on the Basque language"). After further study at the University of Hamburg in 1992, Haase worked as an assistant professor at the University of Osnabrück. In 1997 he earned his habilitation with a second thesis, ''Dialektdynamik in Mittelitalien: Sprachveränderungsprozesse im umbrischen Apenninenraum'' ("Dialectal dynamics in central Italy: Language evolution in the Umbrian Apennine Mountains, Apennines"). He subsequently took professorships at the University of Freiburg, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, the Free University of Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin. In 2001 he became a professor at the University of Bremen. The following year he accepted the Chair in Romance languages, Romance Linguistics at the University of Bamberg, where he has taught ever since.

Volunteer activities

Haase is committed to Open-source model, open source and open content projects. He is a Wikipedia author who served as a member of Wikimedia Germany's advisory board (2005–2007); he did not stand for re-election. Living mainly in Berlin, he is a member of the Chaos Computer Club, having served since 2009 as its board representative to the experience exchange groups (Erfahrungsaustauschkreise).„Vorstand des CCC e.V.“
Since 2009 he has also been a member of the Pirate Party Germany, Pirate party;Martin Haase
Pirate party
wiki entry the party supports open source governance, government transparency, a right to information privacy and an end to genetic patents and Internet censorship in Germany but has no seats in the Bundestag.

Esperanto movement

As an undergraduate student Haase learned the international constructed language, planned language Esperanto. He was active in the Esperanto youth group ''Germana Esperanto-Junularo'', acting in an amateur theatrical group called Kia koincido ("What a coincidence"), and serving as its national chair from 1988 to 1990. Today he is director of the German Esperanto Institute and an associate member of the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino, International Academy of Sciences, San Marino, where the main working language is Esperanto.

Other linguistic interests

Haase is a polyglot; he speaks German Language, German, English language, English, French language, French, Italian language, Italian, Spanish language, Spanish, Basque language, Basque and Esperanto, as well as the Catalan language, Catalan and Occitan language, Occitan. He is also able to read Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Gothic language, Gothic, Dutch language, Dutch, Romanian language, Romanian, Russian language, Russian, Maltese language, Maltese, Swahili language, Swahili and Samoan language, Samoan, and to communicate using German Sign Language (''Deutsche Gebärdensprache'', DGS).

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