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Ibriszimow_Dymitr Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow
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Faculty of Languages & Literatures
African Linguistics II


Dymitr Ibriszimow has been professor of African Linguistics (chair of Afrikanistik II  – African languages beyond Niger-Congo), since 1999. He studied Arabic and African Linguistics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He then did his doctoral studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, where he obtained his Doctoral Degree in African Linguistics. After that, he went on to become a Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.

In 1990, he moved to Frankfurt, where he was a Research Fellow, Lecturer, and Member of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 268 at the Professur later Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Goethe University Frankfurt, until he took his current position at the University of Bayreuth.
His main domains of interest are Chadic Comparative and Historical Linguistics as well as Berber and more generally Afro-Asiatic. Furthermore, he also has a keen interest for Cognitive Semantics, Ethnolinguistics, Linguistic Geography and the history of the peoples of the Lake Chad basin.

Academic Degrees

1986

Doctorate, University of Warsaw

1981

Magister degree in Arabistik and Afrikanistik, Jagiellonian University, Kraków


Professional Background

2001

Visiting Professor at Sophia Antipolis University, Nice

Since 1999

Chair of African Studies II, University of Bayreuth

1995 – 1999

Research Fellow and Lecturer for African Languages, Goethe University Frankfurt

1995 – 1995

Research Associate (BAT IIa) for the Professor of African Languages, Goethe University Frankfurt

1996     

Visiting scholar at Sophia Antipolis University, Nice

1994 – 1995

Research Associate (BAT IIa) in Collaborative Research Centre 268 "Cultural development and language history in the West African savannas", Goethe University Frankfurt

1990 – 1993

Research Associate (BAT IIa/2) for the Professor of African Languages, Goethe University Frankfurt

1986 – 1990

Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Section Hamito-Semitic Languages, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Others

2018

 Award of the Universitätsmedaille (medal of honour) of the University of Bayreuth  

2015 – 2017

Senator at the University of Bayreuth

2014  2017

Founding member and spokesperson of the Bavarian Research Institute of African Studies, BRIAS

2011 – 2013

Senator at the University of Bayreuth

2009 – 2018 

Dean of BIGSAS (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, funded the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments)

2007 – 2008

Managing Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth

2006 – 2007

Deputy chairperson of SFB/FK 560 "Local action in Africa in the context of global influences"

2004 – 2005

Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth

2002

Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Languages & Literature, University of Bayreuth

2002 – 2008

Member of the Board of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)

2001 – 2007

Co-editor of the series Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique Tchadique –Tschadistik, Köppe Verlag

2001 – 2007

Project Coordinator (together with Hans-Jörg Schmid) of the sub-project B6 of SFB/FK 560 “Contrastive Cognitive Semantics – Conceptual structures of everyday lexemes in regional Nigerian Languages and Nigerian English”

Since 1999

Vice President of the Association Méga-Tchad, Paris

1997 – 2000

Project Coordinator (together with Herrmann Jungraithmayr) of the sub-project B6 of SFB 286 “Cultural development and language history in the West African savannas”

Ibriszimow_Dymitr

Faculty of Languages & Literatures
African Linguistics II


Regional Focus:

  • Nigeria
  • Libya

Research Topics:

  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Comparative, Historical Linguistics
  • Cognitive Semantics
  • Linguistic Geography
  • Ethnolinguistics
Ibriszimow_Dymitr

Faculty of Languages & Literatures
African Linguistics II


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Ibriszimow_Dymitr

Faculty of Languages & Literatures
African Linguistics II


Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow

University of Bayreuth 
Afrikanistik II 
95440 Bayreuth 
Room: 1.31 (GW I)

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3581
E-mail: dymitr.ibriszimow@uni-bayreuth.de

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