Franz Rottland Explained

Franz Rottland
Birth Date:	4 December 1934
Birth Place:	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Death Place:	Germany
Nationality:	German
Occupation:	Linguist
Alma Mater:	Leiden University
Workplaces:	University of Bayreuth
Main Interests:	Languages of Africa

Franz Rottland (December 4, 1934 in Gelsenkirchen – August 4, 2014) was a German linguist and Africanist.^[1]

His interests included the historical linguistics of Nilotic languages^[2] and Cushitic languages.^{[3] [4]}

Biography

After receiving his doctorate on September 8, 1970 at Leiden University and his habilitation in 1979 at the University of Cologne, Rottland served as the Chair of African Studies II at the University of Bayreuth until 1998.

Rottland died in 2014 at the age of 79 and was buried in Alter Ehrenfelder Friedhof at Cologne's Melaten cemetery.^[5]

Selected publications

• Die südnilotischen Sprachen. Beschreibung, Vergleichung und Rekonstruktion. Berlin 1982, .
• editor, with Rainer Voßen: Afrikanische Wildbeuter. Internationales Symposion, Sankt Augustin, Januar 3–5, 1985 Tagungsberichte. African hunter gatherers. Hamburg 1986, .
• editor: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Carl F. Hoffmann. Hamburg 1986, .
• editor, with Lucia N. Omondi: Proceedings of the 3. Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Kisumu, Kenya, August 4–9, 1986. Hamburg 1991, .

External links

• Publications at Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

Notes and References

1. Voßen, Rainer, Angelika Mietzner, and Antje Meißner (2000). „Mehr als nur Worte ...“. Afrikanistische Beiträge zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland. Cologne. .
2. Rottland, Franz. 1979. The reconstruction of proto-Kalenjin. (Papers from the Inst. of African Studies (IAS), 128.) Nairobi: Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi.
3. Heine, Bernd, Franz Rottland & Rainer Voßen. 1979. Proto-Baz: Some aspects of early Nilotic-Cushitic contacts. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 1. 75‒92.
4. Book: Güldemann, Tom. The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. Güldemann. Tom. De Gruyter Mouton. Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa. 2018. 978-3-11-042606-9. 10.1515/9783110421668-002. Berlin. 58–444. The World of Linguistics series. 11. 133888593 .
5. Web site: findagrave.com . . 2019-06-30 . en.