Michael Schulte (born 17 July 1963 in
Aachen,
Germany
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) is a professor and chair of Nordic linguistics at the
University of Agder in
Norway
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.
Germanic philology, runology, historical sociolinguistics
Michael Schulte holds a PhD in historical linguistics from the
University of Bonn and has studied in all the
Nordic countries, particularly in
Iceland
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,
Norway
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, and
Sweden
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. Schulte has published abundantly in high-profile journals on
runology, language history, historical
sociolinguistics and writing systems. Until 2018 he was working on the national language project "Norsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history), which has been finalized in 2018. Schulte is a member of several Academies such as
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and The Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Agder vitenskapsakademi, AVA) and the
Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in Sweden (Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för Svensk Folkkultur, KGAA). In 2023 he became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2024 he was elected into Academia Europaea. Schulte is an "International Cooperation Partner" of the Academy Project "Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen ‒ Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)", a long-term research project under the umbrella of the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Schulte is engaged as professor-II at the
University of Iceland, and he is a vice-president of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (ISDG) since 27 September 2015. Schulte became a professor-II at the Heliopolis University in Cairo in 2019.
Schulte has also been a member of the board of
SEKEM Scandinavia since 2008.
Awards
In 2014, Schulte received the
Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research from the Nansen Trust (
Nansenfondet) for his work on Old Germanic and early Nordic linguistics.
See also
*
Robert Nedoma
References
External links
Michael Schulte, UiANorsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history)Göttingen Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesAkademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
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1963 births
Living people
People from Aachen
German expatriates in Norway
Academic staff of the University of Agder
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Members of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy