Harald Haarmann
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1946 –
Who is Harald Haarmann?
Harald Haarmann is a German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Haarmann studied general linguistics, various philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor. He obtained his PhD in Bonn and his habilitation in Trier. He taught and conducted research at a number of German and Japanese universities and is a member of the Research Centre on Multilingualism in Brussels. Since 2003, he has been Vice-President of the Institute of Archaeomythology and director of its European branch.
Haarmann is the author of more than 40 books in German, English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and nearly 200 articles and essays in ten languages. He has also edited and co-edited some 20 anthologies. His preferred fields of study are cultural history, archaeomythology, history of writing, language evolution, contact linguistics and history of religion. In 1999, Haarmann received the Prix Logos awarded by the Association européenne des linguistes et des professeurs de langues, and the Premio Jean Monnet for essay writing.
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- Born
- 1946
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Coimbra
- University of Bonn
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on July 23, 2013
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