Wolfgang Viereck#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2197 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2003 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Wolfgang Viereck passed away September 4, 2018.
Positions Held
- 1978 - 2005 Professor of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at University of Bamberg
- 1973 - 1978 Full professor of English Philology at University of Graz
- 1970 D.Litt. in English Philology, University of Mainz
- 1966 PhD in English, University of Hamburg
Fields of Scholarship
- English language
- Dialectology
Honours and Awards
- Vice-President of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (1989-1993,1993-1997)
- 1995 Member of the Royal Humanistic Academy of Sciences, Uppsala (Kungl. Humanistiska
- 1998 - 2005 President of the Atlas Linguarum Europae
- President of the International Association of University Professors of English
- 1999 Member of the International Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2007 Elected Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala
