Wolfgang Wilhelm Viereck

Background

Viereck, Wolfgang Wilhelm was born on September 4, 1937 in Berlin. Son of Wilhelm and Irmgard (Linck) Viereck.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, University Hamburg, Germany, 1966. Doctor of Letters, University Mainz, Germany, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 1989.

Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University Uppsala, Sweden, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University Poznan, Poland, 1999. Professor honoris causa, University Sibiu, Romania, 2003.

Career

Research assistant English Department, University Hamburg, 1965-1969; from assistant to associate Professor of English Department, University Mainz, 1969-1973; professor, head English Department, University Graz, Austria, 1973-1978; Professor of English linguistics and medieval English literature, U. Bamberg, Germany, since 1978. Expert adviser German Research Council, Bonn, Germany, 1988-1995. Member International Expert Committee on Modern Language and Literature, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1992-1995.

President International Congress Dialectology, Bamberg, 1987-1990.

Achievements

• Wolfgang Wilhelm Viereck has been listed as a noteworthy linguist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study Before 1800: A Contribution to English Historical Phraseology (University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics)

    (This study represents the first critical examination of t...)

  • Selected Writings - Ausgewahlte Schriften: English Linguistic And Cultural History - English Dialectology, English/german/french (University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics; Bamber)

    (In this volume, the author's selected writings that he ha...)

  • Selected Writings - Ausgewahlte Schriften (University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics) (German Edition)

    (For this volume articles are selected that span a period ...)

Membership

Member of Royal Society Sciences (Uppsala), Agder Academy of Sciences (Norway), Academia Europaea (London), International Academy of Sciences, Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy (Uppsala), Royal Humanistic Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, International Association University Professors English (president 1998—2001, past president since 2001), Atlas Linguarum Europae (vice president 1992-1998, president 1998—2006), International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (vice president 1989-1997, president 1997—2006, honorary president since 2006).

Interests

• Avocations: gardening, music.

Connections

Married Karin Anna-Maria Ditschuneit, September 21, 1973. 1 child, Nina.

Father:

Wilhelm Viereck

Mother:

Irmgard (Linck) Viereck

Spouse:

Karin Anna-Maria Ditschuneit

child:

Nina Viereck