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 peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was ...

and university professor. After studying Slavic studies, he did his PhD and

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. From 1964, he was professor for Sorbian Studies and Slavic linguistics as well as director of the Instituts für Sorabistik at

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. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

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. Since 1988, he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in

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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 Academic staff of Leipzig University Linguists from Germany {{Germany-linguist-stub