Heinz Schuster-Šewc ( Sorbian ''Hinc Šewc''; 8 February, 1927 in Purschwitz – 10 February, 2021 in Leipzig) was a German Sorbian

Slavicist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

and university professor. After studying Slavic studies, he did his PhD and habilitation. From 1964, he was professor for Sorbian Studies and Slavic linguistics as well as director of the Instituts für Sorabistik at

Leipzig University Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December ...

. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Jagiellonian University. Since 1988, he has been a member of the

Saxon Academy of Sciences The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (german: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name ''Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences'' (german: Königlich Sächsische G ...

. He was also a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

Publications

*Vergleichende historische Lautlehre der Sprache des Albin Moller, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1958. *Bibliographie der sorbischen Sprachwissenschaft, Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 1966. *Sorbische Sprachdenkmäler 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert, Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 1967. *Gramatika hornjoserbskeje rěče: Zwjazk. 1: Fonologija, fonetika, morfologija, Budyšin, Nakładnistwo Domowina, 1968 and 1984 (2. vyd.). *Gramatika hornjoserbskeje rěče: Zwjazk. 2: Syntaksa, Budyšin, Nakładnistwo Domowina, 1976. *Historisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch der ober- und niedersorbischen Sprache, Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 1978–1996. Bd. 1–5. *Das Sorbische und der Stand seiner Erforschung, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1991. *Das Sorbische im slawischen Kontext, Domowina-Verlag, 2000. *Die ältesten Drucke des Obersorbischen, Bautzen, Domowina-Verlag, 2001.

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1927 births 2021 deaths Sorbian people Members of the Polish Academy of Learning Leipzig University faculty Linguists from Germany {{Germany-linguist-stub