Michael Schulte (born 17 July 1963 in Aachen,

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) is a professor and chair of Nordic linguistics at the

University of Agder The University of Agder ( no, Universitetet i Agder), formerly known as Agder College and Agder University College, is a public university with campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad, Norway. The institution was established as a university co ...

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Germanic philology, runology, historical sociolinguistics

Michael Schulte holds a PhD in historical linguistics from the

University of 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 ...

and has studied in all the Nordic countries, particularly in

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, and Sweden. Schulte has published abundantly in high-profile journals on

runology Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics. History Runology was initiated by Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), who was very interested in the ling ...

, language history, historical

sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural Norm (sociology), norms, expectations, and context (language use), context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on languag ...

and writing systems. Until 2018 he was working on the national language project "Norsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history), which has been finalized in 2018. Schulte is a member of several Academies such as

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The ...

and The Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Agder vitenskapsakademi, AVA) and the

Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy ( sv, Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien) in Uppsala is one of 18 Swedish royal academies and dedicated to the study of Swedish folklore. The name is often expanded to ("...for Swedish Folk Culture"). The Academ ...

in Sweden (Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för Svensk Folkkultur, KGAA). He is an "International Cooperation Partner" of the Academy Project "Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen ‒ Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)", a long-term research project under the umbrella of the

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Göttingen Academy of Sciences (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)Note that the German ''Wissenschaft'' has a wider meaning than the English "Science", and includes Social sciences and Humanities. is the second oldest of the se ...

. Schulte is engaged as professor-II at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( is, Háskóli Íslands ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' s ...

, and he is a vice-president of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (ISDG) since 27 September 2015. Schulte became a professor-II at the Heliopolis University in Cairo in 2019. Schulte has also been a member of the board of SEKEM Scandinavia since 2008.

Awards

In 2014, Schulte received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research from the Nansen Trust ( Nansenfondet) for his work on Old Germanic and early Nordic linguistics.

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Michael Schulte, UiA

Norsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history)Göttingen Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesAkademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schulte, Michael 1963 births Living people People from Aachen German expatriates in Norway Academic staff of the University of Agder Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Members of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy

Germanic philology, runology, historical sociolinguistics

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