Background
Schulte, Michael was born on July 17, 1963 in Düren, Germany. Son of Heinrich Schulte and Eva Mucke.
Schulte, Michael was born on July 17, 1963 in Düren, Germany. Son of Heinrich Schulte and Eva Mucke.
Graduate in Foreign Language studies, Háskóli islands, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1988. Master, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn, Germany, 1993. Doctor of Philosophy, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn, Germany, 1997.
Certified in German as Foreign Language, Bonn University, Germany, 1998.
Schulte has published abundantly in high-profile journals on runology, language history, historical sociolinguistics and writing systems At present he is working on the national language project "Norsk språkhistorie" (Norwegian language history), to appear in Oslo in 2015 in four volumes. 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.
Schulte is engaged as professor-II at the University of Iceland, and he is a vice-president of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (ISDG) since 2015.09.27.
Schulte is a member of several Academies such as Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and The Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Agder vitenskapsakademi, AVA) and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in Sweden (Kungl Gustav Adolfs Akademien för Svensk Folkkultur, KGAA). Schulte has also been a member of the board of SEKEM Scandinavia since 2008.
Married Ragnhild Nilsen Schulte, August 21, 2003. Children: Erlend, Eline.