Herrmann Rudolf Jungraithmayr (born 7 May 1931 in
Eferding
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Geography
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History
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Upper Austria
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) is an Austrian Africanist and retired university professor. Until 1996, he was the chair of African linguistics at the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
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in
Frankfurt am Main
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,
Germany
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Herrmann Jungraithmayr is a brother of Alfred Jungraithmayr.
Career
Jungraithmayr studied African Studies, Egyptology and Ethnology at the
University of Vienna
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(1950–1953) and the
University of Hamburg
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(1953–1956). He studied under
Wilhelm Czermak (Vienna) and
Johannes Lukas (Hamburg).
From 1956 to 1959, he was a lecturer at the
Goethe-Institut
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Cairo
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, and taught at Orman and Ibrahimiyya high schools. In 1957, he taught German at
Al-Azhar University
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. From 1960 to 1963, he was a research assistant at the Seminar for African Languages at the
University of Hamburg
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. From 1963 to 1967, he was an assistant at
Philipps University in
Marburg
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, where he habilitated in 1967 and then worked as a private lecturer. In 1968/69, he was an assistant professor at
Howard University
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in Washington, D.C. From 1972 to 1985, he was a professor of African Studies at
Philipps University, Marburg. In between, he was also a visiting professor at the
University of Maiduguri
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in Nigeria in 1983. From 1985 to 1996 he was chair of African linguistics at
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
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in
Frankfurt am Main
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. There, he founded the Institute for African Linguistics, now known as the Institute for African Studies.
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Research trips
*1958/9: Darfur expedition (Sudan and Chad), together with Alfred Jungraithmayr and Franz Ortner, with the support of the Wenner Gren Foundation
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Early life
He was born on 5 June 1881 in Uddevalla, a town on the west coast of Sweden. He w ...
, New York
*1962: One year of field research in Northern Nigeria, as a research assistant at Johannes Lukas, Hamburg, with the support of the German Research Foundation
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(DFG)
*1969: Southern Nigeria and Western Cameroon: voice recordings as part of the DFG project Africa Maps
*1970–1980: Several trips to Chad to document Chadic languages (Mubi, Migama, Mokilko, etc.)
*1989–2002: Several research trips to Northern Nigeria
Scientific work
Jungraithmayr has carried out extensive documentation of Chadic languages
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cam ...
spoken in Central Africa.
He has found that Chadic languages
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cam ...
are more conservative in the east than in the west.[Herrmann Jungraithmayr: Der perfekte Ton. Zur Dreidimensionalität afrikanischer Sprachen. Stuttgart, F. Steiner 2008]
Publications
Books
* ''Die Ron-Sprachen.'' Glückstadt 1970: ISBN noch nicht existent
* ''Märchen aus dem Tschad.'' Düsseldorf/Köln 1981.
* ''Lexique mokilko.'' Berlin 1990.
* ''A Dictionary of the Tangale Language.'' Berlin 1991.
* (with Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig) ''Lexikon der afrikanistischen Erzählforschung.'' Köln 1998.
* ''Sindi. Tangale Folktales.'' Berlin 2002.
* ''La langue mubi (République du Tchad).'' Berlin 2013.
* ''Der perfekte Ton.'' Stuttgart 2008.
* (with Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig) ''Einführung in die Hausa-Sprache.'' Berlin 1976; 3. Aufl. 1985
* (with Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig und Anne Storch
Anne Storch (born 16 September 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German linguist and professor of African studies at the University of Cologne.
Career
Storch studied African linguistics, ethnology, and history at Frankfurt am Main.
From 1 ...
) ''Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache.'' Köln 2004.
* (with Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig) ''Lexikon der Afrikanistik.'' Berlin 1983.
* (with D. Ibriszimow) ''Chadic Lexical Roots'', 2 Bände. Berlin 1994.
* (with P. I. Diyakal) ''Lyang Lu. One thousand and one proverbs, idioms and sayings in Mushere'' (N. Nigeria). Stuttgart 2008.
* ''Die Dreidimensionalität afrikanischer Sprachen''. Marburg 2015,
* (with Miroslawa Holubavá) ''The Ngas Language (Shik Ngas)''. Berlin 2016.
* (with Marie Ngom) ''workgeheimisse afrikanischer Sprachen''. Marburg 2018.
Periodicals
* Chadic Newsletter 1970–1998
* (with Hans-Jürgen Greschat, Wolf Haenisch and Wilhelm Rau
Wilhelm may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm"
* Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
Other uses
* Moun ...
) ''Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde'' 1973 ff.
* (with H.-J. Greschat) ''Africana Marburgensia'' 1968–1989
* (with N. Cyffer and R. Vossen) ''Westafrikanische Studien'' 1994 ff.
* ''Sprache und Oralität in Afrika'', 1989–2010
Audio documentation
* Sprachaufnahmen aus Sudan and Tschad, 1958/9, unter anderem zur Daju-Sprache, 13 Tonbänder, archiviert in Frankfurt a. M.
* Sprachaufnahmen aus Nigeria and Tschad, 1962–2004, archiviert im Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften unter „Sammlung Herrmann Jungraithmayr 1962–2004“
Bibliography
* H. Jungraithmayr: ''Ein Leben mit afrikanischen Sprachen'', Paideuma 52 (2006) and 53 (2007)
* Gábor Takács (ed.) ''Semito-Hamitic Festschrift for A. B. Dolgopolsky and H. Jungraithmayr''. Berlin 2008.
* ''Studia Chadica (Festschrift zum 80. Geb.)'', Köln 2011
References
External links
List of scientific publications by Herrmann Jungraithmayr
updated May 2016
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Living people
1931 births
Linguists of Chadic languages
Linguists from Germany
Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt
20th-century linguists
21st-century linguists
University of Vienna alumni
University of Hamburg alumni