Bernd Nothofer (born 18 December 1941 in

Krefeld Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

, Germany) is a German linguist. His primary research interests include Austronesian historical linguistics,

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dialectology, and the

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Education

After graduating from high school, Nothofer studied in

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starting from 1962. In 1966, he obtained a ''License de Lettre libre'' at the Université de Franche-Comté in

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, France and taught German and French philology at Millersville State College in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

, United States. From 1967 to 1973, he studied linguistics with

Isidore Dyen Isidore Dyen (16 August 1913 in Philadelphia – 14 December 2008 in Newton, Massachusetts) was an American linguist, Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University. He was one of the foremost scholars i ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. In 1973, he graduated with PhD in Linguistics after completing fieldwork in the Indonesian provinces of

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

and Central Java. In 1977, he completed his habilitation at the

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Career

From 1973 to 1981, Nothofer was a research assistant at the

and lecturer at the

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

. In 1981, he joined

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, where he was Professor at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies until his retirement in 2008. From 1985 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at

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, Universitas Andalas,

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Universitas Gadjah Mada Gadjah Mada University ( jv, ꦈꦤꦶꦥ꦳ꦼꦂꦱꦶꦠꦱ꧀ꦓꦗꦃꦩꦢ; id, Universitas Gadjah Mada, abbreviated as UGM) is a public research university located in Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Officially founded on ...

, the

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, and the

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. In 2006, he was honored with the

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''Insular Southeast Asia: linguistic and cultural studies in honor of Bernd Nothofer'' in

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.Mueller, Franz
Review of Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and cultural studies in honour of Bernd Nothofer
''Oceanic Linguistics'' 47, no. 2 (2008): 468-469. . In 2012, another festschrift in honor of Nothofer was published in

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...

, titled ''Seminar Sehari bersama Prof. Dr. Bernd Nothofer dan Purnabakti Dr. Inyo Yos Fernandez''.

Personal life

Nothofer is married and has three children.

Selected publications

* ''The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic.'' In: ''Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde'' 73 (1975). Nijhoff, The Hague. * ''Dialektgeographische Untersuchungen in West-Java und im westlichen Zentraljava''. 2 Bände. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980. * ''Dialektatlas von Zentral-Java''. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981. * with K.-H. Pampus, Gloria und Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: ''Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche''. Teil 1. Groos, Heidelberg 1985. * with K.-H. Pampus, Gloria und Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: ''Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche''. Teil 2. Groos, Heidelberg 1987. * (editor). ''Die deutsche Malaiologie. Festschrift zu Ehren von Frau Professor Dr. Irene Hilgers-Hesse''. Groos, Heidelberg 1988. * with K.-H. Pampus: ''Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesisch für Deutsche''. Teil 1. Zweite, vollständig überarbeitete Auflage. Groos, Heidelberg 1988. * (editor). ''Reconstruction, Classification, Description. Festschrift in Honor of Isidore Dyen''. Abera, Hamburg 1997. * ''Dialek Melayu Bangka''. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 1997. * ''Pengantar etimologi''. Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta 2013.

References

External links

Official faculty page
Goethe University Frankfurt {{DEFAULTSORT:Nothofer, Bernd Living people 1941 births Linguists from Germany Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt Yale University alumni Linguists of Austronesian languages People from Krefeld Indonesianists