Michael Rießler Explained

Michael Rießler
Birth Date:16 February 1971
Birth Place:Bad Belzig
Occupation:Professor of general linguistics
Employer:University of Eastern Finland

Michael Rießler, also transcribed Michael Riessler, (born 16 February 1971) is a German linguist and professor at the University of Eastern Finland since August 2020.[1] [2]

Biography

Rießler was born in Bad Belzig. He grew up in the village of Borne, today a district of Bad Belzig, in the former East Germany, where his parents worked at a collective farm.[3] He went to school in Belzig, studied agriculture and in 1990 completed his high school education with passing the Abitur at the Betriebsberufsschule des Volkseigenes Gutes Kaltenhausen in Jüterbog. From 1990 to 1991 he did his civil service service in Potsdam and then studied Nordic languages, European ethnology and Bulgarian at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2002 he completed a Master of Philosophy with a thesis on the influence of Sámi languages on Norwegian and Swedish dialects. His thesis, entitled German: Sprachwechsel und Sprachwandel in Nordskandinavien, was supervised by German scholar . Rießler and Kusmenko had already published a joint paper on Southern Sámi in 2000. In 2011 Rießler defended his doctoral thesis in linguistics at the University of Leipzig under the supervision of language typologist Balthasar Bickel.

Research

Rießler has published scientific articles on North Germanic and Sámi languages and Komi, among other things in the fields of language typology, sociolinguistics, language documentation and language technology. Rießler's research interests also include Sámi literature.[4] From 2008 to 2014 he was editor of the book series Kleine saamische Schriften (together with Elisabeth Scheller). Since 2014 he publishes (together with Thomas Mohnike and) the journal Samica.

After graduation, Rießler worked at several universities, including in Germany, Norway and Finland, and conducted extensive field research, especially on the Kola Peninsula[5] and in other areas of northwest Russia.[6] He has also worked for the .[7] [8] 2014 and 2017–2018 Rießler had Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.[9] In autumn 2016 he was visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure[10] For three semesters between 2017 and 2019 he was a representative of the Chair of General Linguistics at Bielefeld University. In 2015 he was appointed as Privatdozent at the University of Helsinki (venia docendi in Finno-Ugric languages) and in 2018 at the University of Turku (venia docendi in general and Finno-Ugric linguistics). In 2020 Rießler was appointed Professor of general linguistics at the University of Eastern Finland.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: PD Dr. Michael Rießler — Skandinavisches Seminar. 2020-07-22. www.skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de.
  2. Web site: 2020-07-01. Habilitationen und Berufungen Juli 2020. 2020-07-22. www.forschung-und-lehre.de. de.
  3. News: Ladaa olisi pitänyt odottaa 15 vuotta – Itä-Saksassa Michael Rießler olisi johtanut kolhoosia, nyt kieliantropologi etsii pientä puutaloa Joensuun seudulta. subscription. Arttu. Koistinen. fi. Hänen vanhempansa työskentelivät kolhoosissa eli yhteistoimintatilalla. Isä oli eräänlainen osastonjohtaja, ja äiti työskenteli hallinnossa.. 2020-12-12. Karjalainen. Joensuu.
  4. Web site: Virtual Panel — Sámi Authors You Should Know. The Nordic Center in America. 19 October 2020 . 2020-10-24. … with … Michael Riessler, she published the first comprehensive anthology of Sami poetry translated into German.
  5. Web site: Kola Sámi. 2020-07-22. DOBES. en-US.
  6. Web site: videocorpora. 2020-07-22. videocorpora.ru.
  7. Web site: uni'leben 04-2014. 2020-07-22. www.pr2.uni-freiburg.de.
  8. Web site: Sør-Varanger Avis . Ole-Tommy Pedersen . 2020-08-21 . Tyske Michael Riessler, som hadde vært tilknyttet museet tidligere … . no . 2020-09-09.
  9. Web site: Michael Rießler Accepts Full Professorship at University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu . 2020-10-07 . 2020-08-11 . Current News . Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies . en .
  10. Web site: Michael RIESSLER - labex TransferS. 2020-07-22. www.transfers.ens.fr.
  11. Web site: 2020-07-01. Habilitationen und Berufungen Juli 2020. 2020-07-22. www.forschung-und-lehre.de. de.

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